The Nobel Prize is an award created by inventor Alfred Nobel to honor achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace, first presented in 1901. A parallel prize was established for economics in 1968. These prizes are considered to be among the most prestigious anyone can receive.
Winners[]
Some of the best-known recipients of the Nobel Prize are:
Literature[]
- Rudyard Kipling (1907)
- William Butler Yeats (1923)
- George Bernard Shaw (1925)
- Thomas Mann (1929)
- Sinclair Lewis (1930)
- Eugene O'Neill (1936)
- Pearl Buck (1938)
- Herman Hesse (1946)
- Andre Gide (1947)
- TS Eliot (1948)
- William Faulkner (1949)
- Bertrand Russell (1950)
- Winston Churchill (1953)
- Albert Camus (1957)
- Boris Pasternak (1958)
- John Steinbeck (1962)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1964)
- Samuel Beckett (1969)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970)
- Pablo Neruda (1971)
- Saul Bellow (1976)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1982)
- Octavio Paz (1990)
- Toni Morrison (1993)
- Seamus Heaney (1995)
- Gunter Grass (1999)
- Harold Pinter (2005)
- Doris Lessing (2007)
- Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)
- Alice Munro (2013)
- Bob Dylan (2016)
Peace[]
- Theodore Roosevelt (1906)
- Woodrow Wilson (1919)
- Red Cross (1944, 1963)
- Quakers (1947)
- Albert Schweitzer (1952)
- Dag Hammarskjöld (1961)
- Martin Luther King (1964)
- Willy Brandt (1971)
- Henry Kissinger (1973)
- Andrei Sakharov (1975)
- Anwar Sadat (1978)
- Menachem Begin (1978)
- Mother Teresa (1979)
- Lech Walesa (1983)
- Desmond Tutu (1984)
- Elie Wiesel (1986)
- Dalai Lama (1989)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1990)
- Aung San Suu Kyi (1991)
- Rigoberta Menchú (1992)
- Nelson Mandela (1993)
- FW de Klerk (1993)
- Yasser Arafat (1994)
- Yitzhak Rabin (1994)
- Shimon Peres (1994)
- Kofi Annan (2001)
- Jimmy Carter (2002)
- Al Gore (2007)
- Barack Obama (2009)
- Malala Yousafzai (2014)
Physics[]
- Wilhelm Roentgen (1901)
- Marie Curie (1903)
- Pierre Curie (1903)
- Guglielmo Marconi (1909)
- Max Planck (1918)
- Albert Einstein (1921)
- Niels Bohr (1922)
- Werner Heisenberg (1932)
- Erwin Schrodinger (1933)
- Enrico Fermi (1938)
- Richard Feynman (1965)
- Peter Higgs (2013)
- Sheldon Cooper (2019)
Chemistry[]
- Marie Curie (1911)
- Linus Pauling
Medicine[]
- Ivan Pavlov (1904)
- Alexander Fleming (1945)
- Francis Crick (1962)
- James D. Watson (1962)
Economics[]
- Paul Samuelson (1970)
- Friedrich Hayek (1974)
- Milton Friedman (1976)
- Paul Krugman (2008)