All Nobel Prizes

Between 1901 and 2023, the Nobel Prizes and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel were awarded 621 times to 1,000 people and organisations. With some receiving the Nobel Prize more than once, this makes a total of 965 individuals and 27 organisations. Below, you can view the full list of Nobel Prizes and Nobel Prize laureates.

Find all prizes in | physics | chemistry | physiology or medicine | literature | economic sciences | all categories

2024

The 2024 Nobel Prizes will be announced 7–14 October.

2023

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023

“for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023

“for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023

“for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023

“for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”

The Nobel Peace Prize 2023

“for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023

“for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”

2022

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022

“for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022

“for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022

“for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022

“for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”

The Nobel Peace Prize 2022

“The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy”

2021

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

“for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems”
“for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”
“for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021

“for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021

“for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

“for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”

The Nobel Peace Prize 2021

“for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace”

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021

“for his empirical contributions to labour economics”
“for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”

2020

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

“for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”
“for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

“for the development of a method for genome editing”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020

“for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”

The Nobel Peace Prize 2020

“for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict”

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020

“for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”

To cite this section
MLA style: All Nobel Prizes. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024. Thu. 28 Mar 2024. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes>