List of German Nobel Prize Winners

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This article is a list of the German Nobel Prize winners . Due to moving biographies, the clear assignment to a specific country is not always given and assignment to several countries makes sense. For example, Hermann Hesse is only listed as Swiss by the Nobel Prize Committee, although he is usually listed as German and Swiss based on his biography. Albert Schweitzer is listed as a Frenchman, but has a German biography and did not call himself a Frenchman, but a German. Nobel laureates whose Nobel Prize is usually awarded for another country by the Nobel Prize Committee, but who clearly also have German biographies and are therefore usually listed as Germans, are marked with (*).

Nobel Prize Laureates by Prize

Surname year category Recognized achievements
Gustav Stresemann 1926 Nobel Peace Prize Approach to France to secure peace in Europe
Ludwig Quidde 1927 Nobel Peace Prize Organization of peace conferences
Carl von Ossietzky 1935 Nobel Peace Prize Action against German militarism as editor-in-chief of the Weltbühne
Albert Schweitzer * 1952 Nobel Peace Prize Use against nuclear armament
Willy Brandt 1971 Nobel Peace Prize Ostpolitik
Henry Kissinger * 1973 Nobel Peace Prize Negotiating a ceasefire in the Vietnam War
Theodor Mommsen 1902 Nobel Prize in literature Roman history
Rudolf Eucken 1908 Nobel Prize in literature "On the basis of the serious search for truth, the penetrating power of thought and the foresight, the warmth and power of representation, with which he represented and developed an ideal worldview in numerous works"
Paul Heyse 1910 Nobel Prize in literature his fiction work
Gerhart Hauptmann 1912 Nobel Prize in literature "For his fruitful and versatile work in the field of dramatic poetry"
Thomas Mann 1929 Nobel Prize in literature Buddenbrooks
Hermann Hesse * 1946 Nobel Prize in literature "For his work carried through immersion, which developed more and more boldly and haunted and reveals the ideals of classical humanism as well as a high art of style"
Nelly Sachs * 1966 Nobel Prize in literature "For her excellent lyrical and dramatic works, which interpret the fate of Israel with moving force"
Heinrich Boell 1972 Nobel Prize in literature Complete works
Günter Grass 1999 Nobel Prize in literature Life's work
Herta Müller 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Complete works
Emil Fischer 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Research on sugar and purine groups
Adolf von Baeyer 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds
Eduard Buchner 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Discovery of cell-free fermentation
Wilhelm Ostwald 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Work on catalysis
Otto Wallach 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Research in the field of annular hydrocarbons
Richard Willstätter 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Research on the chlorophyll
Fritz Haber 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Development of a process for the production of ammonia
Walther Hermann Nernst 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Research on thermochemistry
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy * 1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "For the elucidation of the heterogeneous nature of colloidal solutions as well as for the methods used"
Heinrich Otto Wieland 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Research on bile acid
Adolf Windaus 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "For [...] services to research into the structure of sterols and their connection with vitamins"
Hans Fischer 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Hemin synthesis
Friedrich Bergius 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "For [...] services to the discovery and development of high pressure chemical processes"
Carl Bosch 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Development of high pressure chemical processes
Richard Kuhn * 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "For his work on carotenoids and vitamins"
Adolf FJ Butenandt 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Research on steroid hormones
Otto Hahn 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "For his discovery of the fission of heavy atomic nuclei"
Otto PH Diels 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Discovery of the Diels-Alder reaction
Kurt Alder 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Discovery of the Diels-Alder reaction
Hermann Staudinger 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Justification of polymer chemistry
Karl Ziegler 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Discoveries in the field of polymers
Manfred Eigen 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Measurement of the speed of rapid chemical reactions
Gerhard Herzberg * 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "For his contributions to the knowledge of the electronic structure and geometry of molecules, especially of free radicals"
Ernst Otto Fischer 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Research into the organometallic sandwich complexes
Georg Wittig 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wittig reaction
Johann Deisenhofer 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "For research into the three-dimensional structure of the reaction center of photosynthesis in a purple bacterium"
Robert Huber 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "For research into the three-dimensional structure of the reaction center of photosynthesis in a purple bacterium"
Hartmut Michel 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "For research into the three-dimensional structure of the reaction center of photosynthesis in a purple bacterium"
Gerhard Ertl 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "For studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
Stefan Hell 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "For the development of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy"
Joachim Frank * 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "For the development of cryo-electron microscopy for high-resolution structure elucidation of biomolecules"
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 1901 Nobel Price for physics Discovery of X-rays
Philipp Lenard * 1905 Nobel Price for physics Research in the field of solids and atomic physics
Ferdinand Braun 1909 Nobel Price for physics Contribution to the development of wireless telegraphy
Wilhelm Vienna 1911 Nobel Price for physics Research into thermal radiation
Max von Laue 1914 Nobel Price for physics Diffraction of X-rays on crystals
Max Planck 1918 Nobel Price for physics Discovery of Planck's quantum of action
Johannes Stark 1919 Nobel Price for physics Discovery of the Doppler effect and the Stark effect
Albert Einstein 1921 Nobel Price for physics "For services to theoretical physics, especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect "
James Franck 1925 Nobel Price for physics Confirmation of Bohr's atomic model
Gustav Hertz 1925 Nobel Price for physics Confirmation of Bohr's atomic model
Werner Heisenberg 1932 Nobel Price for physics Justification of quantum mechanics
Max Born * 1954 Nobel Price for physics Basic research in quantum mechanics
Walther Bothe 1954 Nobel Price for physics Development of the coincidence method
Rudolf Moessbauer 1961 Nobel Price for physics Discovery of the Mössbauer effect
J. Hans D. Jensen 1963 Nobel Price for physics Development of the shell model of atomic nuclei
Maria Goeppert-Mayer * 1963 Nobel Price for physics Development of the shell model of atomic nuclei
Klaus von Klitzing 1985 Nobel Price for physics Discovery of the quantized Hall effect
Gerd Binnig 1986 Nobel Price for physics Development of the scanning tunneling microscope
Ernst Ruska 1986 Nobel Price for physics Invention of the electron microscope
Johannes Georg Bednorz 1987 Nobel Price for physics Research on high temperature superconductivity in ceramics made from copper oxides
Jack Steinberger * 1988 Nobel Price for physics Basic research on neutrinos
Wolfgang Paul 1989 Nobel Price for physics Development of the ion trap ( Paul trap )
Hans Georg Dehmelt * 1989 Nobel Price for physics Development of the ion trap
Horst L. Störmer 1998 Nobel Price for physics "For [the] discovery of a new kind of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"
Herbert Kroemer 2000 Nobel Price for physics Development of semiconductor heterostructures for high speed and optoelectronics
Wolfgang Ketterle 2001 Nobel Price for physics Generation of the Bose-Einstein condensate
Theodor W. Hänsch 2005 Nobel Price for physics Development of the frequency comb in connection with its other services
Peter Grünberg 2007 Nobel Price for physics "For the discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR)"
Emil von Behring 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Work on serum therapy
Robert Koch 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Discovery of the causative agents of anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera
Paul Ehrlich 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Justification of Immunology
Albrecht Kossel 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "In recognition of his contribution to the knowledge of cell chemistry through his work on proteins, including core substances"
Otto F. Meyerhof 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Research on the metabolism in muscles
Otto Warburg 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Research on respiratory ferment
Hans Spemann 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Discovery of the organizer effect
Otto Loewi 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "For [...] discoveries in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses"
Gerhard Domagk 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Discovery of the antibacterial effect of the sulfonamide Prontosil
Ernst Boris Chain * 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Discovery of penicillin
Hans Adolf Krebs * 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Discovery of the citric acid cycle
Werner Forßmann 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "For [...] discoveries about cardiac catheterization and the pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Feodor Lynen 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Research on the regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
Konrad Bloch * 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Research on the regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
Max Delbrück * 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Establishment of modern molecular biology and genetics
Bernard Katz * 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Work on the quantized form of synaptic information transfer
Karl von Frisch * 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "Discoveries for the organization and triggering of individual and social behavioral patterns"
Georges JF Koehler 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Research on the immune system and monoclonal antibodies
Erwin Neher 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Discoveries about the function of individual ion channels in cells
Bert Sakmann 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "For [the] development of a method for the direct detection of ion channels in cell membranes to research the signal transmission within the cell and between the cells"
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Research on the genetic control of early embryonic development
Günter Blobel * 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "For the discovery of the signals built into proteins that control their transport and localization in the cell"
Harald zur Hausen 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Research on the human papillomavirus
Thomas Südhof * 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Research on the transport system of cells
Reinhard Rare 1994 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics Research on game theory

See also

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Formal: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , donated in 1968 by the Swedish Reichsbank in memory of Alfred Nobel. For background, see the link Nobelprize.org on the subject