Field
Nobel Laureates
207 figures, most prominent first.
Albert Einstein
relativity
1879 – 1955
Bob Dylan
songwriter, Nobel laureate
b. 1941
Henry Kissinger
American statesman, endlessly disputed
1923 – 2023
Yitzhak Rabin
signed Oslo; assassinated for it
1922 – 1995
Milton Friedman
monetarist economist
1912 – 2006
Richard Feynman
quantum electrodynamics, and bongos
1918 – 1988
Shimon Peres
Israeli president who changed his mind
1923 – 2016
Menachem Begin
Israeli politician and former Prime Minister
1913 – 1992
Niels Bohr
the quantum atom
1885 – 1962
Harold Pinter
British playwright
1930 – 2008
Paul Krugman
American economist
b. 1953
Elie Wiesel
wrote Night; witness to the Shoah
1928 – 2016
Herbert A. Simon
American political scientist, economist, sociologist
1916 – 2001
Saul Bellow
wrote Augie March
1915 – 2005
Daniel Kahneman
founded behavioural economics
1934 – 2024
Joseph Stiglitz
American economist, professor
b. 1943
Ben Bernanke
American economist
b. 1953
Boris Pasternak
wrote Doctor Zhivago
1890 – 1960
Drew Weissman
made mRNA vaccines possible
b. 1959
Henri Bergson
French philosopher
1859 – 1941
László Krasznahorkai
Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
b. 1954
Max Born
gave quantum mechanics its meaning
1882 – 1970
Eugene Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician
1902 – 1995
Paul Samuelson
American economist
1915 – 2009
Elinor Ostrom
American political economist
1933 – 2012
Joseph Brodsky
exiled poet, Nobel laureate
1940 – 1996
Kenneth Arrow
American economist
1921 – 2017
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist
1933 – 2021
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner
1900 – 1958
David Baltimore
American biologist and Nobel laureate
1938 – 2025
Hans Bethe
German-American nuclear physicist
1906 – 2005
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Nobel laureate in Yiddish
1903 – 1991
Eric Kandel
American neuropsychiatrist
b. 1929
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize
1868 – 1934
Gary Becker
American economist
1930 – 2014
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist
1908 – 1968
Robert Solow
American economist
1924 – 2023
Elfriede Jelinek
Austria's unforgiving novelist
b. 1946
Louise Glück
U.S. poet and Nobel laureate
1943 – 2023
Murray Gell-Mann
American physicist
1929 – 2019
Nadine Gordimer
wrote apartheid from inside
1923 – 2014
Albert A. Michelson
American physicist
1852 – 1931
Gertrude B. Elion
American biochemist and pharmacologist
1918 – 1999
Gertrude Elion
designed drugs for leukaemia
1918 – 1999
Joel Mokyr
American-Israeli economic historian
b. 1946
Julian Schwinger
American theoretical physicist
1918 – 1994
Richard Thaler
American economist
b. 1945
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist
1905 – 1994
Paul Ehrlich
invented chemotherapy
1854 – 1915
Rita Levi-Montalcini
found nerve growth factor
1909 – 2012
David Gross
American particle physicist and string theorist
b. 1941
Hermann Joseph Muller
American biologist
1890 – 1967
Joshua Lederberg
American molecular biologist
1925 – 2008
Leon M. Lederman
American mathematician and physicist
1922 – 2018
Simon Kuznets
Russian-born American economist and statistician
1901 – 1985
Barry Barish
American physicist
b. 1936
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist
b. 1962
Imre Kertész
Hungarian author
1929 – 2016
Patrick Modiano
French writer
b. 1945
Rainer Weiss
American physicist
1932 – 2025
Roald Hoffmann
Polish-American Nobel laureate chemist and playwright
b. 1937
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
American medical physicist
1921 – 2011
Gerty Cori
Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist
1896 – 1957
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist
1917 – 2003
Joseph Rotblat
Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
1908 – 2005
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate
1883 – 1970
Rudolph A. Marcus
Canadian-American chemist
1923 – 2026
Salvador Luria
Italian American microbiologist
1912 – 1991
Wassily Leontief
Russian economist
1906 – 1999
Isidor Rabi
American physicist
1898 – 1988
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
1911 – 1997
Nelly Sachs
Jewish German poet and playwright
1891 – 1970
Paul Berg
American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford Unive
1926 – 2023
Philippe Aghion
French economist
b. 1956
Richard Axel
American molecular biologist
b. 1946
Robert Hofstadter
American physicist and Nobel laureate
1915 – 1990
Stanley B. Prusiner
American neurologist and biochemist
b. 1942
Sydney Brenner
South African-British biologist
1927 – 2019
Walter Kohn
American physicist
1923 – 2016
Adam Riess
American astrophysicist
b. 1969
Alvin E. Roth
American economist, professor
b. 1951
Arthur Kornberg
American biochemist
1918 – 2007
Baruj Benacerraf
Venezuelan-American immunologist
1920 – 2011
Claudia Goldin
American economist; Nobel prize winner
b. 1946
Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
1900 – 1979
Emilio Segrè
co-discovered technetium and astatine
1905 – 1989
Felix Bloch
Swiss physicist
1905 – 1983
Franco Modigliani
Italian-American economist
1918 – 2003
Jack Steinberger
German-American physicist, Nobel laureate
1921 – 2020
Karl Landsteiner
Jewish-Austrian biologist
1868 – 1943
Leonid Hurwicz
Polish-American economist and mathematician
1917 – 2008
Paul Milgrom
American economist
b. 1948
Robert Aumann
Israeli-American mathematician
b. 1930
Robert Lefkowitz
American physician and biochemist
b. 1943
Saul Perlmutter
American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
b. 1959
Ada Yonath
mapped the ribosome
1939 – 2026
Arno Allan Penzias
German-born American physicist
1933 – 2024
Burton Richter
American physicist
1931 – 2018
David Julius
American physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021
b. 1955
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist
1845 – 1916
François Englert
Belgian theoretical physicist
1932 – 2026
Frederick Reines
American physicist
1918 – 1998
George Akerlof
American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics
b. 1940
James Franck
German-American physicist
1882 – 1964
Sheldon Glashow
American theoretical physicist
b. 1932
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer
1887 – 1970
Aaron Klug
British chemist and biophysicist
1926 – 2018
Eric Maskin
American Nobel laureate in economics
b. 1950
Gary Ruvkun
American geneticist
b. 1952
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Harry Markowitz
American economist
1927 – 2023
Howard Martin Temin
American geneticist
1934 – 1994
Joseph L. Goldstein
American biochemist
b. 1940
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist and geneticist
1927 – 2010
William Nordhaus
American economist
b. 1941
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Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
1835 – 1917
Dan Shechtman
Israeli scientist
b. 1941
François Jacob
French biologist and geneticist
1920 – 2013
Gabriel Lippmann
luxembourgish physicist nationalized French
1845 – 1921
George de Hevesy
co-discovered hafnium
1885 – 1966
Gerald Edelman
American biologist
1929 – 2014
Harold E. Varmus
American scientist
b. 1939
Herbert C. Brown
American chemist
1912 – 2004
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist
1914 – 2002
Michael Levitt
biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology
b. 1947
René Cassin
French jurist
1887 – 1976
Stanley Cohen
American biochemist
1922 – 2020
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist
1916 – 2009
César Milstein
Argentine biochemist
1927 – 2002
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist
b. 1933
Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist
1928 – 1999
Ernst Chain
Jewish-German-born British biochemist
1906 – 1979
Harry Kroto
British chemist
1939 – 2016
Myron Scholes
Canadian economist
b. 1941
Otto Stern
German-American physicist
1888 – 1969
Paul Heyse
German writer
1830 – 1914
Randy Schekman
Nobel prize winning American cell biologist
b. 1948
Robert Fogel
American economist and historian
1926 – 2013
Roy J. Glauber
American theoretical physicist
1925 – 2018
Selman Waksman
found the cure for tuberculosis
1888 – 1973
Fritz Albert Lipmann
German-American biochemist
1899 – 1986
Henri Moissan
French chemist
1852 – 1907
Jerome Isaac Friedman
American physicist
b. 1930
John Polanyi
Hungarian-Canadian chemist
b. 1929
Lawrence Klein
American economist
1920 – 2013
Leon Cooper
American physicist
1930 – 2024
Peter Diamond
Nobel prize in economics winner
b. 1940
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
1943 – 2011
Reinhard Selten
German economist
1930 – 2016
Robert C. Merton
American economist
b. 1944
Roger Myerson
American economist
b. 1951
Serge Haroche
French physicist, Nobel laureate
b. 1944
Walter Gilbert
American biochemist
b. 1932
Arthur Ashkin
American physicist
1922 – 2020
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner
1925 – 2011
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
German physicist
1887 – 1975
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H. Robert Horvitz
American biologist
b. 1947
Leonid Kantorovich
Russian mathematician
1912 – 1986
Martin Chalfie
American biochemist, cell biologist
b. 1947
Martin Karplus
Austrian-born American theoretical chemist
1930 – 2024
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist and chronobiologist
b. 1944
Roger D. Kornberg
American biochemist
b. 1947
Zhores Alferov
Soviet-Russian physicist
1930 – 2019
Aaron Ciechanover
Israeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate
b. 1947
Andrew Fire
American biologist
b. 1959
Avram Hershko
Israeli biochemist
b. 1937
Bernard Katz
German-British biophysicist
1911 – 2003
Bruce Beutler
American immunologist and geneticist
b. 1957
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist
1916 – 1995
George Andrew Olah
Hungarian chemist
1927 – 2017
George Wald
American biologist, biochemist
1906 – 1997
Georges Charpak
French physicist
1924 – 2010
John Harsanyi
Hungarian economist
1920 – 2000
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist
1912 – 2004
Otto Loewi
Jewish-German pharmacologist
1873 – 1961
Paul Greengard
American neuroscientist
1925 – 2019
Arieh Warshel
chemist, biochemist and biophysicist
b. 1940
Joshua Angrist
Israeli-American economist
b. 1960
Martin Lewis Perl
American scientist
1927 – 2014
Martin Rodbell
American biochemist
1925 – 1998
Michael Kremer
American development economist
b. 1964
Michael Stuart Brown
American geneticist and Nobel laureate
b. 1941
Alan J. Heeger
American chemist, physicist
b. 1936
Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist
1941 – 2015
Harvey J. Alter
American medical researcher
b. 1935
Joseph Erlanger
American doctor
1874 – 1965
Melvin Schwartz
American experimental physicist
1932 – 2006
Oliver Hart
British-born American economist
b. 1948
Richard Willstätter
German chemist
1872 – 1942
Sidney Altman
Canadian American molecular biologist
1939 – 2022
Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist
1897 – 1996
Edmond H. Fischer
American biochemist
1920 – 2021
Ilya Frank
Soviet physicist
1908 – 1990
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Merton Miller
American economist
1923 – 2000
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
German biochemist
1884 – 1951
Robert Bárány
Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1876 – 1936
Robert F. Furchgott
American biochemist
1916 – 2009
André Michel Lwoff
French microbiologist
1902 – 1994
Ben Roy Mottelson
Danish-American nuclear physicist
1926 – 2022
David Lee
American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
b. 1931
Konrad Emil Bloch
German American biochemist
1912 – 2000
Douglas Diamond
American economist and professor of finance
b. 1953
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician
1917 – 2011
Irwin Rose
American biologist
1926 – 2015
Jerome Karle
American physical chemist
1918 – 2013
Otto Wallach
German chemist
1847 – 1931
Alfred Hermann Fried
Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist
1864 – 1921
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William Howard Stein
American biochemist
1911 – 1980