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List of Asian Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prize is an annual, international prize first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. An associated prize in Economics has been awarded since 1969.[1] Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals.[2]

Asians have been the recipients of all six award categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. The first Asian recipient, Rabindranath Tagore, was awarded the Literature Prize in 1913. In 1930, C. V. Raman became the first Asian recipient of a Nobel Prize in one of the sciences. The most Nobel Prizes awarded to Asians in a single year was in 2014, when five Asians became laureates. The most recent Asian laureates, Japanese scientist Syukuro Manabe and the Filipino journalist Maria Ressa was awarded their prizes in 2021.

To date (2023), there have been sixty Asian winners of the Nobel Prize, including twenty-nine Japanese, twelve Israeli, nine Indian (not including non-Indian Laureates born in India) and eight Chinese (not including non-Chinese Laureates born in China). The list does not include Russians.

Physics edit

As of 2021, there are 21 Asians or Asian Americans who have won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Japanese comprise the majority, with 12 laureates.

Year Image Laureate Country at the time of the award Category Comment
1930   Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman   British India Physics First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Science
1949   Hideki Yukawa   Japan Physics First Japanese Nobel laureate
1957   Chen Ning Yang   China Physics First Chinese Nobel laureate
1957   Tsung-Dao Lee   China Physics First Chinese Nobel laureate
1965   Shin'ichiro Tomonaga   Japan Physics
1973   Leo Esaki   Japan Physics
1976   Samuel C. C. Ting   United States Physics Dual-citizen of   United States and   Republic of China
1979   Abdus Salam   Pakistan Physics First Pakistani Nobel laureate
1983   Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar   United States Physics Born in   India
1997   Steven Chu   United States Physics Born in United States
1998   Daniel C. Tsui   United States Physics Born in China
2002   Masatoshi Koshiba   Japan Physics
2008   Yoichiro Nambu   United States Physics Born in   Japan
2008   Makoto Kobayashi   Japan Physics
2008   Toshihide Maskawa   Japan Physics
2009   Charles K. Kao   United Kingdom and   United States, Physics First Hong Kong citizenship Nobel laureate
2014   Isamu Akasaki   Japan Physics
2014   Hiroshi Amano   Japan Physics
2014   Shuji Nakamura   United States Physics Born in   Japan
2015   Takaaki Kajita   Japan Physics
2021   Syukuro Manabe   United States Physics Born in   Japan

Chemistry edit

As of 2019, there are 19 Asians or Asian Americans who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with the Japanese comprising the most with 8 laureates.

Year Image Laureate Country at the time of the award Category Comment
1981   Kenichi Fukui   Japan Chemistry First Asian and Japanese Nobel laureate in Chemistry
1986   Yuan T. Lee   Taiwan and   United States Chemistry First Taiwanese Nobel laureate
1987 Charles J. Pedersen   United States Chemistry Japanese mother; born in Korea
2000   Hideki Shirakawa   Japan Chemistry
2001   Ryōji Noyori   Japan Chemistry
2002   Koichi Tanaka   Japan Chemistry
2004   Aaron Ciechanover   Israel Chemistry
2004   Avram Hershko   Israel Chemistry
2008   Osamu Shimomura   Japan Chemistry
2008   Roger Y. Tsien   United States Chemistry Born in United States
2009   Venki Ramakrishnan   United Kingdom and   United States Chemistry Born in India
2009   Ada Yonath   Israel Chemistry
2010   Ei-ichi Negishi   Japan Chemistry
2010   Akira Suzuki   Japan Chemistry
2011   Dan Shechtman   Israel Chemistry
2013   Arieh Warshel   Israel and   United States Chemistry
2013   Michael Levitt   Israel,   United Kingdom and   United States Chemistry
2015   Aziz Sancar   Turkey and   United States Chemistry First Turkish Nobel laureate in science
2019   Akira Yoshino   Japan Chemistry

Physiology or Medicine edit

As of 2018, there are 7 Asians who won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with the Japanese comprising the most with 5 laureates.

Year Image Laureate Country at the time of the award Category Comment
1968   Har Gobind Khorana   United States Physiology or Medicine First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. Born in India
1987   Susumu Tonegawa   Japan Physiology or Medicine First Japanese Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
2012   Shinya Yamanaka   Japan Physiology or Medicine First Nobel Medicine Laureate to achieve rewarded results in Asia
2015   Satoshi Ōmura   Japan Physiology or Medicine
2015   Tu Youyou   China Physiology or Medicine First Chinese woman Nobel laureate
2016   Yoshinori Ohsumi   Japan Physiology or Medicine
2018   Tasuku Honjo   Japan Physiology or Medicine

Literature edit

As of 2018, there are 8 Asians who won Nobel Prize in Literature, with the Japanese comprising the most with 3 laureates.

Year Image Laureate Country at the time of the award Category Comment
1913   Rabindranath Tagore   British India Literature First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate
1968   Yasunari Kawabata   Japan Literature
1994   Kenzaburō Ōe   Japan Literature
2000   Gao Xingjian   France Literature Born in China
2001   V. S. Naipaul   United Kingdom Literature Indian origin. Born in Trinidad and Tobago.
2006   Orhan Pamuk   Turkey Literature First Turkish Nobel laureate
2012   Mo Yan   China Literature
2017   Kazuo Ishiguro   United Kingdom Literature Born in   Japan

Peace edit

As of 2023, there are 22 Asians who won Nobel Prize in Peace, with the Israeli and Indian comprising the most with 3 laureates.

Year Image Laureate Country at the time of the award Category Comment
1973   Lê Đức Thọ
(declined award) 		  North Vietnam Peace First Asian and Vietnamese Nobel laureate in Peace
1974   Eisaku Satō   Japan Peace
1978   Menachem Begin   Israel Peace
1979   Mother Teresa   India Peace First Asian woman Nobel laureate
1989   Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama   India,  China, and   Tibet Peace First Tibetan Nobel laureate
1991   Aung San Suu Kyi   Burma Peace First Myanmar Nobel laureate
1994   Yasser Arafat   Palestine Peace First Palestinian Arab in Nobel laureate
1994   Shimon Peres   Israel Peace
1994   Yitzhak Rabin   Israel Peace
1996   Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo   Timor-Leste Peace First Timorese Nobel laureate
1996   José Ramos-Horta   Timor-Leste Peace First Timorese Nobel laureate
2000   Kim Dae-jung   South Korea Peace First Korean Nobel laureate
2003   Shirin Ebadi   Iran Peace First Iranian Nobel laureate
2006   Muhammad Yunus   Bangladesh Peace First Bangladeshi Nobel laureate in Peace
2010 Liu Xiaobo   China Peace First Asian Nobel laureate in prison
2011   Tawakkul Karman   Yemen Peace First Arab Woman and First Yemeni Nobel laureate
2014   Kailash Satyarthi   India Peace
2014   Malala Yousafzai   Pakistan Peace First Pakistani Woman Nobel laureate and youngest Nobel laureate
2018   Nadia Murad   Iraq Peace First Iraqi Nobel laureate
2021   Maria Ressa   Philippines Peace First Filipino Nobel laureate
2023   Narges Mohammadi   Iran Peace Second Iranian Nobel laureate and awarded while in prison

Economics edit

As of 2019, four Asians have won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Year Image Laureate Country at the time of the award Category Comment
1998   Amartya Sen   India Economics First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Economics.
2002   Daniel Kahneman   Israel and   United States Economics
2005   Robert Aumann   Israel and   United States Economics
2019   Abhijit Banerjee   United States Economics Born in India; [3]

Non-Asian born Laureates of Asian descent edit

Main article: List of Chinese Nobel laureates § Laureates of Han Chinese linkage

Non-Asian Laureates born in Asia edit

Main article: List of Chinese Nobel laureates § Non-Chinese Laureates born in China
Main article: List of Japanese Nobel laureates § Laureates with Japanese linkage
Main article: List of Indian Nobel laureates § Others

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Nobel Prize" (2007), in Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed 14 November 2007, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online:

    An additional award, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden and was first awarded in 1969
  2. ^ "All Nobel Laureates". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
  3. ^ Hannon, Dominic Chopping and Paul. "Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded for Work Alleviating Poverty". WSJ. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
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