List of Belgian Nobel Prize winners

Encouraged by Bertha von Suttner , the Nobel Prize has been financed since 1901 from the foundation funds of the Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) . The following Belgians received the award:

Nobel Peace Prize

year	Person or institution	Reason for awarding the prize
1904	Institut de Droit international (Institute for International Law) (founded 1837)	Work of the institute for the further development of international law
1909	Auguste Beernaert (1829–1912)	Member of the International Court of Arbitration in The Hague
1913	Henri La Fontaine (1854-1943)	President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau
1958	Georges Pire (1910-1969)	Head of the refugee aid organization " L'Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde "

year	person	Reason for awarding the prize	image
1911	Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)	"Due to his versatile literary effectiveness, especially his dramatic creations, which are characterized by a wealth of imagination and a poetic idealism, which, sometimes in the veiled form of the fairy tale game, reveals deep inspiration and mysteriously addresses the reader's feeling and intuition"

year	person	Reason for awarding the prize	image
1977	Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003)	"For his contribution to irreversible thermodynamics, especially to the theory of dissipative structures"

year	person	Reason for awarding the prize
1919 (published 1920)	Jules Bordet (1870-1961)	"For his discoveries in the field of immunity"
1938 (published 1939)	Corneille Heymans (1892–1968)	"For the discovery of the role of the sinus and aortic mechanisms in breathing regulation"
1974	Albert Claude (1899–1983) Christian de Duve (1917–2013)	"For their discoveries on the structural and functional organization of the cell"

year	person	Reason for awarding the prize	image
2013	François Englert (1932–)	"For work in the field of particle physics"

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