List of Italian Nobel laureates

This is a list of Italians that have been awarded the Nobel Prize.

Laureates

Swiss Nobel laureates

Year	Image	Laureate	Born	Died	Field	Rationale
1906		Camillo Golgi	7 July 1843 in Corteno	21 January 1926 in Pavia	Physiology or Medicine	"in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system" prize shared with Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1906		Giosuè Carducci	27 July 1835 in Valdicastello	16 February 1907 in Bologna	Literature	"not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces"
1907		Ernesto Teodoro Moneta	20 September 1833 in Milan, Austrian Empire	10 February 1918 in Milan	Peace	"for his work in the press and in peace meetings, both public and private, for an understanding between France and Italy" prize shared with Louis Renault
1909		Guglielmo Marconi	25 April 1874 in Bologna	20 July 1937 in Rome	Physics	"in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" prize shared with Karl Ferdinand Braun
1926		Grazia Deledda	27 September 1871 in Nuoro	15 August 1936 in Rome	Literature	"for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general"
1934		Luigi Pirandello	28 June 1867 in Agrigento	10 December 1936 in Rome	Literature	"for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
1938		Enrico Fermi	29 September 1901 in Rome	28 November 1954 in Chicago, USA	Physics	"for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons"
1957		Daniel Bovet	23 March 1907 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland acquired Italian citizenship in 1947 or 1948	8 April 1992 in Rome	Physiology or Medicine	"for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles"
1959		Emilio Segrè			Physics	"for their discovery of the antiproton"
1959		Salvatore Quasimodo			Literature	"for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times"
1963		Giulio Natta			Chemistry	"for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers"
1969		Salvador Luria			Physiology or Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses"
1975		Renato Dulbecco			Physiology or Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell"
1975		Eugenio Montale			Literature	"for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions"
1984		Carlo Rubbia			Physics	"for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction"
1985		Franco Modigliani			Economics	"for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets"
1986		Rita Levi-Montalcini			Physiology or Medicine	"for their discoveries of growth factors"
1997		Dario Fo			Literature	"who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden"
2002		Riccardo Giacconi			Physics	"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
2007		Mario Capecchi			Physiology or Medicine	"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
2021		Giorgio Parisi			Physics	"for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales"