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. The most Nobel Prizes awarded to Asian in a single year was in 2014, when five Asians became laureates. The most recent, a Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo was awarded his prizes in 2018.

To date, there have been seventy Asian winners of the Nobel Prize, including twenty-seven Japanese, twelve Israeli, and nine Chinese (not including non-Chinese Laureates born in China). The following are not including Russian.

Physics

YearImageLaureateCountry at the time of the awardCategoryComment
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 Republic of China (1912–1949) China Physics First Chinese Nobel laureate
1957 Tsung-Dao Lee Republic of China (1912–1949) China Physics First Chinese Nobel laureate
1965 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga  Japan Physics
1973 Leo Esaki  Japan Physics
1979 Abdus Salam  Pakistan Physics First Pakistani Nobel laureate
1983 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar  United States, Physics Born in India
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

Chemistry

YearImageLaureateCountry at the time of the awardCategoryComment
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
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
2009 Venkatraman 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

Physiology or Medicine

YearImageLaureateCountry at the time of the awardCategoryComment
1968 Har Gobind Khorana  United States Physiology or Medicine First Asian born and Indian born Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
1987 Susumu Tonegawa  Japan Physiology or Medicine First Asian and Japanese Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
2012 Shinya Yamanaka  Japan Physiology or Medicine
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

YearImageLaureateCountry at the time of the awardCategoryComment
1913 Rabindranath Tagore  British India Literature First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon  Israel Literature First Israeli Nobel laureate
1968 Yasunari Kawabata  Japan Literature
1994 Kenzaburō Ōe  Japan Literature
2000 Gao Xingjian  France Literature Born in China
2006 Orhan Pamuk  Turkey Literature First Turkish Nobel laureate
2012 Mo Yan  China Literature
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro  United Kingdom Literature Born in Japan

Peace

YearImageLaureateCountry at the time of the awardCategoryComment
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
1988 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama  India 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 First Indian Nobel laureate in Peace
2014 Malala Yousafzai  Pakistan Peace First Pakistani Woman Nobel laureate and youngest Nobel laureate

Economics

YearImageLaureateCountry at the time of the awardCategoryComment
1998 Amartya Sen  India Economics First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Economics
2002 Daniel Kahneman  Israel and  United States Economic
2005 Robert Aumann  Israel and  United States Economic

Non-Asian born Laureates of Asian descent

Non-Asian Laureates born in Asia

References

  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.
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