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 | image |
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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 " |
Nobel Prize in literature
year | person | Reason for awarding the prize | image |
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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" |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
year | person | Reason for awarding the prize | image |
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1977 |
Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003) |
"For his contribution to irreversible thermodynamics, especially to the theory of dissipative structures" |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
year | person | Reason for awarding the prize | image |
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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" |
Nobel Price for physics
year | person | Reason for awarding the prize | image |
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2013 |
François Englert (1932–) |
"For work in the field of particle physics" |
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