List of US Nobel Laureates
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) .
Between 1901 and 2017, 349 Nobel Prizes were awarded to US individuals. The following Americans received the award:
Nobel Peace Prize
- Theodore Roosevelt 1906
- Elihu Root 1912
- Woodrow Wilson 1919
- Charles Gates Dawes 1925
- Frank Billings Kellogg 1929
- Jane Addams 1931
- Nicholas Murray Butler 1931
- Cordell Hull 1945
- Emily Greene Balch 1946
- John Raleigh Mott 1946
- Ralph Bunche 1950
- George C. Marshall 1953
- Linus Carl Pauling 1962
- Martin Luther King 1964
- Norman Borlaug 1970
- Henry Kissinger 1973
- Elie Wiesel 1986
- Jody Williams 1997
- Jimmy Carter 2002
- Al Gore 2007
- Barack Obama 2009
Nobel Prize in literature
- Sinclair Lewis 1930
- Eugene O'Neill 1936
- Pearl S. Buck 1938
- William Faulkner 1949
- Ernest Hemingway 1954
- John Steinbeck 1962
- Saul Bellow 1976
- Isaac Bashevis Singer 1978
- Joseph Brodsky 1987
- Toni Morrison 1993
- Bob Dylan 2016
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Theodore William Richards 1914
- Irving Langmuir 1932
- Harold Clayton Urey 1934
- James Batcheller Sumner 1946
- John Howard Northrop 1946
- Wendell Meredith Stanley 1946
- William Francis Giauque 1949
- Edwin Mattison McMillan 1951
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg 1951
- Linus C. Pauling 1954
- Vincent du Vigneaud 1955
- Willard Frank Libby 1960
- Melvin Calvin 1961
- Robert B. Woodward 1965
- Robert S. Mulliken 1966
- Lars Onsager 1968
- Christian B. Anfinsen 1972
- Stanford Moore 1972
- Paul J. Flory 1974
- William Num Lipscomb Jr. 1976
- Herbert C. Brown 1979
- Paul Berg 1980
- Walter Gilbert 1980
- Roald Hoffmann 1981
- Henry Taube 1983
- Robert Bruce Merrifield 1984
- Herbert A. Hauptman 1985
- Jerome Karle 1985
- Dudley R. Herschbach 1986
- Donald J. Cram 1987
- Charles Pedersen 1987
- Thomas R. Cech 1989
- Elias James Corey 1990
- Rudolph A. Marcus 1992
- Kary B. Mullis 1993
- George A. Olah 1994
- Frank Sherwood Rowland 1995
- Robert F. Curl 1996
- Richard E. Smalley 1996
- Paul D. Boyer 1997
- Walter Kohn 1998
- Alan J. Heeger 2000
- Alan G. MacDiarmid 2000
- William S. Knowles 2001
- K. Barry Sharpless 2001
- John B. Fenn 2002
- Peter Agre 2003
- Roderick MacKinnon 2003
- Irwin Rose 2004
- Robert H. Grubbs 2005
- Richard R. Schrock 2005
- Roger Kornberg 2006
- Martin Chalfie 2008
- Roger Tsien 2008
- Thomas A. Steitz 2009
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 2009
- Richard F. Heck 2010
- Robert Lefkowitz 2012
- Brian Kobilka 2012
- Martin Karplus 2013
- Michael Levitt 2013
- Arieh Warshel 2013
- Eric Betzig 2014
- William Moerner 2014
- Paul Modrich 2015
- Aziz Sancar 2015
- Fraser Stoddart 2016
- Joachim Frank 2017
- Frances H. Arnold 2018
- George P. Smith 2018
Nobel Price for physics
- Albert A. Michelson 1907
- Robert Andrews Millikan 1923
- Arthur Holly Compton 1927
- Carl David Anderson 1936
- Clinton Davisson 1937
- Ernest O. Lawrence 1939
- Otto Stern 1943
- Isidor Isaac Rabi 1944
- Percy W. Bridgman 1946
- Felix Bloch 1952
- Edward Mills Purcell 1952
- Willis Eugene Lamb 1955
- Polycarp Kush 1955
- William B. Shockley 1956
- John Bardeen 1956
- Walter H. Brattain 1956
- Emilio Segrè 1959
- Owen Chamberlain 1959
- Donald A. Glaser 1960
- Robert Hofstadter 1961
- Eugene Wigner 1963
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer 1963
- Charles H. Townes 1964
- Richard Feynman 1965
- Julian Schwinger 1965
- Hans Bethe 1967
- Luis W. Alvarez 1968
- Murray Gell-Mann 1969
- John Bardeen 1972
- Leon Neil Cooper 1972
- John Robert Schrieffer 1972
- Ivar Giaever 1973
- James Rainwater 1975
- Burton Richter 1976
- Samuel CC Ting 1976
- Philip Warren Anderson 1977
- John H. van Vleck 1977
- Arno Penzias 1978
- Robert Woodrow Wilson 1978
- Sheldon Glass Show 1979
- Steven Weinberg 1979
- James Cronin 1980
- Val Fitch 1980
- Nicolaas Bloembergen 1981
- Arthur L. Schawlow 1981
- Kenneth G. Wilson 1982
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 1983
- William A. Fowler 1983
- Leon Max Lederman 1988
- Melvin Schwartz 1988
- Jack Steinberger 1988
- Hans Georg Dehmelt 1989
- Norman Ramsey 1989
- Jerome I. Friedman 1990
- Henry W. Kendall 1990
- Russell A. Hulse 1993
- Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. 1993
- Clifford Glenwood Shull 1994
- Martin L. Perl 1995
- Frederick Reines 1995
- David M. Lee 1996
- Douglas D. Osheroff 1996
- Robert C. Richardson 1996
- Steven Chu 1997
- William D. Phillips 1997
- Robert B. Laughlin 1998
- Daniel Chee Tsui 1998
- Jack S. Kilby 2000
- Eric A. Cornell 2001
- Carl E. Wieman 2001
- Raymond Davis Jr. 2002
- Riccardo Giacconi 2002
- David Gross 2004
- David Politzer 2004
- Frank Wilczek 2004
- Roy Glauber 2005
- John L. Hall 2005
- John C. Mather 2006
- George F. Smoot 2006
- Yōichirō Nambu 2008
- Charles Kuen Kao 2009
- Willard Boyle 2009
- George E. Smith 2009
- Saul Mother of Pearl 2011
- Brian P. Schmidt 2011
- Adam Riess 2011
- David Wineland 2012
- Shuji Nakamura 2014
- J. Michael Kosterlitz 2016
- Rainer Weiss 2017
- Barry Barish 2017
- Kip Thorne 2017
- Arthur Ashkin 2018
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Thomas Hunt Morgan 1933
- George Hoyt Whipple 1934
- George Richards Minot 1934
- William Parry Murphy 1934
- Edward Adelbert Doisy 1943
- Joseph Erlanger 1944
- Herbert Spencer Gasser 1944
- Hermann Joseph Muller 1946
- Carl Ferdinand Cori 1947
- Gerty Cori 1947
- Edward Calvin Kendall 1950
- Philip Showalter Hench 1950
- Selman A. Waksman 1952
- Fritz A. Lipmann 1953
- John F. Enders 1954
- Thomas H. Weller 1954
- Frederick C. Robbins 1954
- André Frédéric Cournand 1956
- Dickinson W. Richards 1956
- George W. Beadle 1958
- Edward L. Tatum 1958
- Joshua Lederberg 1958
- Severo Ochoa 1959
- Arthur Kornberg 1959
- Georg von Békésy 1961
- James D. Watson 1962
- Konrad Bloch 1964
- Peyton Rous 1966
- Charles B. Huggins 1966
- Haldan K. Hartline 1967
- George Wald 1967
- Robert W. Holley 1968
- Har Gobind Khorana 1968
- Marshall W. Nirenberg 1968
- Max Delbrück 1969
- Alfred Day Hershey 1969
- Salvador E. Luria 1969
- Julius Axelrod 1970
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland 1971
- Gerald M. Edelman 1972
- George Emil Palade 1974
- David Baltimore 1975
- Renato Dulbecco 1975
- Howard M. Temin 1975
- Baruch S. Blumberg 1976
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek 1976
- Roger Guillemin 1977
- Andrew V. Schally 1977
- Rosalyn Yalow 1977
- Daniel Nathans 1978
- Hamilton O. Smith 1978
- Allan M. Cormack 1979
- Baruj Benacerraf 1980
- George D. Snell 1980
- Roger Sperry 1981
- David H. Hubel 1981
- Barbara McClintock 1983
- Michael S. Brown 1985
- Joseph L. Goldstein 1985
- Stanley Cohen 1986
- Gertrude B. Elion 1988
- George H. Hitchings 1988
- J. Michael Bishop 1989
- Harold E. Varmus 1989
- Joseph E. Murray 1990
- E. Donnall Thomas 1990
- Edmond H. Fischer 1992
- Edwin G. Krebs 1992
- Phillip A. Sharp 1993
- Alfred G. Gilman 1994
- Martin Rodbell 1994
- Edward B. Lewis 1995
- Eric F. Wieschaus 1995
- Stanley B. Prusiner 1997
- Robert F. Furchgott 1998
- Louis J. Ignarro 1998
- Ferid Murad 1998
- Günter Blobel 1999
- Paul Greengard 2000
- Eric R. Kandel 2000
- Leland H. Hartwell 2001
- H. Robert Horvitz 2002
- Paul C. Lauterbur 2003
- Richard Axel 2004
- Linda B. Buck 2004
- Andrew Fire 2006
- Craig Mello 2006
- Mario Capecchi 2007
- Elizabeth Blackburn 2009
- Carol W. Greider 2009
- Jack Szostak 2009
- Bruce Beutler 2011
- James Rothman 2013
- Randy Schekman 2013
- John O'Keefe 2014
- William C. Campbell 2015
- Jeffrey C. Hall 2017
- Michael Rosbash 2017
- Michael W. Young 2017
- James P. Allison 2018
Nobel Prize in Economics
- Paul A. Samuelson 1970
- Simon Smith Kuznets 1971
- Kenneth Arrow 1972
- Wassily Leontief 1973
- Tjalling Koopmans 1975
- Milton Friedman 1976
- Herbert A. Simon 1978
- Theodore William Schultz 1979
- Lawrence Klein 1980
- James Tobin 1981
- George Stigler 1982
- Gérard Debreu 1983
- Franco Modigliani 1985
- James M. Buchanan 1986
- Robert Merton Solow 1987
- Harry M. Markowitz 1990
- Merton H. Miller 1990
- William F. Sharpe 1990
- Gary Becker 1992
- Robert Fogel 1993
- Douglass North 1993
- John Forbes Nash Jr. 1994
- John Harsanyi 1994
- Robert E. Lucas 1995
- William Vickrey 1996
- Robert C. Merton 1997
- Myron Scholes 1997
- James Heckman 2000
- Daniel McFadden 2000
- George A. Akerlof 2001
- Michael Spence 2001
- Joseph E. Stiglitz 2001
- Vernon L. Smith 2002
- Robert F. Engle 2003
- Edward C. Prescott 2004
- Thomas Schelling 2005
- Edmund S. Phelps 2006
- Leonid Hurwicz 2007
- Eric S. Maskin 2007
- Roger B. Myerson 2007
- Paul Krugman 2008
- Elinor Ostrom 2009
- Oliver E. Williamson 2009
- Peter A. Diamond 2010
- Dale Mortensen 2010
- Thomas Sargent 2011
- Christopher Sims 2011
- Alvin E. Roth 2012
- Lloyd S. Shapley 2012
- Eugene Fama 2013
- Lars Peter Hansen 2013
- Robert J. Shiller 2013
- Angus Deaton 2015
- Oliver Hart 2016
- Richard Thaler 2017
- William D. Nordhaus 2018
- Paul Romer 2018
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