List of Swiss Nobel Prize winners
Since 1901 the foundation money of the Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel ( 1833 - 1896 ) has financed the Nobel Prize . The following Swiss received the award:
Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prizes to People
- 1901 - Jean Henri Dunant
- 1902 - Elie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat
Nobel Peace Prizes to Organizations
The Nobel Peace Prize is the only one that can also be awarded to institutions.
- 1910 - Permanent International Peace Office
- 1917 - ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross)
- 1938 - International Nansen Office for Refugee Issues (predecessor of UNHCR)
- 1944 - ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross)
- 1954 - UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees)
- 1963 - ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross)
- 1969 - ILO (International Labor Organization)
- 1981 - UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees)
- 2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- 2017 - ICAN International Campaign for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1913 - Alfred Werner (CH since 1895)
- 1937 - Paul Karrer
- 1939 - Leopold Ružička (HR / CH since 1917)
- 1953 - Hermann Staudinger (D / CH since 1920)
- 1975 - Vladimir Prelog (HR / CH since 1959)
- 1991 - Richard Ernst
- 2002 - Kurt Wüthrich
- 2017 - Jacques Dubochet
Nobel Prize in literature
- 1919 - Carl Spitteler
- 1946 - Hermann Hesse (D / CH since 1923)
Nobel Prize in Medicine
- 1909 - Emil Theodor Kocher
- 1948 - Paul H. Müller
- 1949 - Walter Rudolf Hess
- 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein (CH since 1915)
- 1951 - Max Theiler (CH / ZA / USA)
- 1957 - Daniel Bovet (CH / ITA)
- 1978 - Werner Arber
- 1992 - Edmond H. Fischer
- 1996 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Nobel Price for physics
- 1920 - Charles Edouard Guillaume
- 1921 - Albert Einstein (D / CH / USA)
- 1945 - Wolfgang Pauli (A / CH / USA)
- 1952 - Felix Bloch (CH / USA)
- 1986 - Heinrich Rohrer
- 1987 - Karl Alexander Müller
- 2019 - Michel Mayor , Didier Queloz
See also
- In 2013, entomologist Hans Rudolf Herren was the first Swiss to win the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”).
Web links
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