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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 ...
At least 25 laureates have received the Nobel Prize for contributions in the field of organic chemistry, more than any other field of chemistry. [5] 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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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.
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]