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 and the first Asian to win Noble Prize in Science was the great Indian Phsysicist C V Raman. The most Nobel Prizes awarded to Asians in a single year was in 2014, when five Asians became laureates. The most recent Asian laureates, American-Japanese scientist Syukuro Manabe and the Filipino journalist Maria Ressa was awarded their prizes in 2021.
To date (2021), there have been fifty-nine 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 following does not including Russians.
Physics
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.
Chemistry
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.
Physiology or Medicine
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 | File:Har Gobind Khorana nobel.jpg | Har Gobind Khorana |  United States
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Physiology or Medicine | Born in India. |
| 1987 | File:Susumu Tonegawa Photo.jpg | Susumu Tonegawa |  Japan
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Physiology or Medicine | First Japanese Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine |
| 2012 | File:Shinya yamanaka10.jpg | Shinya Yamanaka | Japan
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Physiology or Medicine | First Nobel Medicine Laureate to achieve rewarded results in Asia |
| 2015 | File:Satoshi Ōmura 5040-2015.jpg | Satoshi Ōmura | Japan
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Physiology or Medicine | |
| 2015 | File:Tu Youyou 5012-1-2015.jpg | Tu Youyou |  China
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Physiology or Medicine | First Chinese woman Nobel laureate |
| 2016 | File:Yoshinori Osumi cropped 2 Yoshinori Osumi 20161003.jpg | Yoshinori Ohsumi | Japan
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Physiology or Medicine | |
| 2018 | File:Tasuku Honjo 201311.jpg | Tasuku Honjo | Japan
|
Physiology or Medicine |
Literature
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 | 
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Rabindranath Tagore |  British India
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Literature | First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate |
| 1968 | File:Yasunari Kawabata 1938.jpg | Yasunari Kawabata | Japan
|
Literature | |
| 1994 | File:Paris - Salon du livre 2012 - Kenzaburō Ōe - 003.jpg | Kenzaburō Ōe | Japan
|
Literature | |
| 2000 | File:Gao Xingjian Galerie Simoncini Luxembourg.jpg | Gao Xingjian |  France
|
Literature | Born in China |
| 2001 | File:VS Naipal 2016 Dhaka.jpg | V. S. Naipaul |  United Kingdom
|
Literature | Indian origin. Born in Trinidad and Tobago. |
| 2006 | File:Orhan Pamuk in Rustaveli Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2014.jpg | Orhan Pamuk |  Turkey
|
Literature | First Turkish Nobel laureate |
| 2012 | File:MoYan Hamburg 2008.jpg | Mo Yan | China
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Literature | |
| 2017 | File:Kazuo Ishiguro in Stockholm 2017 02.jpg | Kazuo Ishiguro | United Kingdom
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Literature | Born in Japan
|
Peace
As of 2021, there are 21 Asians who won Nobel Prize in Peace, with the Israeli and Indian comprising the most with 3 laureates.
Economics
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 | File:Amartya Sen , c2000 (4379246038).jpg | Amartya Sen |  India
|
Economics | First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Economics. |
| 2002 | File:Daniel Kahneman (3283955327) (cropped).jpg | Daniel Kahneman |  Israel and United States
|
Economics | |
| 2005 | File:Robert Aumann 2010.jpg | Robert Aumann | Israel and United States
|
Economics | |
| 2019 | File:FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 (6310827426) (cropped).jpg | Abhijit Banerjee | India and United States
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Economics | [3] |
Non-Asian born Laureates of Asian descent
Non-Asian Laureates born in Asia
References
- ↑ "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
- ↑ "All Nobel Laureates". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
- ↑ Hannon, Dominic Chopping and Paul. "Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded for Work Alleviating Poverty". WSJ. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
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