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Chemistry: First Egyptian and North African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 2001 Kofi Annan Ghana: Peace: 2002 Sydney Brenner South Africa: Physiology or Medicine: 2003 J. M. Coetzee: Literature: 2004 Wangari Maathai Kenya: Peace: First Black African woman to win a Nobel Prize 2005 Mohamed ElBaradei Egypt: 2007 Doris Lessing Zimbabwe (born ...
Chemistry 2015 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Frederick Sanger: Chemistry 1958 University of Cambridge: Chemistry 1980 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology: Thomas J. Sargent: Economics 2011 New York University: Jean-Pierre Sauvage: Chemistry 2016 University of Strasbourg: Andrew Schally: Physiology or Medicine 1977
Two Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Germans Richard Kuhn (1938) and Adolf Butenandt (1939), were not allowed by their government to accept the prize. They would later receive a medal and diploma, but not the money. Frederick Sanger is one out of three laureates to be awarded the Nobel Prize twice in the same subject, in 1958 and 1980.
As of November 2022, Nobel Prizes had been awarded to 954 individuals, [2] of whom 17 were black recipients (1.7% of the 954 individual recipients). Black people have received awards in three of the six award categories: twelve in Peace (70.6% of the black recipients), four in Literature (23.5%), and one in Economics (5.9%).
Lists of Nobel laureates cover winners of Nobel Prizes for outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine. The lists are organized by prize, by ethnicity, by origination and by nationality.
Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine and literature have already been announced. ... Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2015. University of Texas at Dallas alumnus Aziz Sancar won ...
This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country. Listings for Economics refer to the related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded 577 times to 889 recipients, of which 26 awards (all Peace Prizes) were to organizations. Due to some recipients receiving multiple ...
The Nobel Prizes were established according to the will of the Swedish industrialist and inventor, Alfred Nobel and are awarded to individuals who have excelled in the fields of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, economics and peace. Since 1951, eleven South African-born individuals have been awarded. [1]