List of French 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 French received the award:
Nobel Peace Prize
- Frédéric Passy 1901
- Louis Renault 1907
- Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant 1909
- Léon Bourgeois 1920
- Aristide Briand 1926
- Ferdinand Buisson 1927
- Léon Jouhaux 1951
- René Cassin 1968
Nobel Prize in literature
- Sully Prudhomme 1901
- Frédéric Mistral 1904
- Romain Rolland 1915
- Anatole France 1921
- Henri Bergson 1927
- Roger Martin du Gard 1937
- André Gide 1947
- François Mauriac 1952
- Albert Camus 1957
- Saint-John Perse 1960
- Jean-Paul Sartre 1964 (not accepted)
- Claude Simon 1985
- Gao Xingjian 2000
- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio 2008
- Patrick Modiano 2014
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Henri Moissan 1906
- Marie Curie 1911
- Victor Grignard 1912
- Paul Sabatier 1912
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie 1935
- Irène Joliot-Curie 1935
- Jean-Marie Lehn 1987
- Yves Chauvin 2005
Nobel Price for physics
- Antoine Henri Becquerel 1903
- Marie Curie 1903
- Pierre Curie 1903
- Gabriel Lippmann 1908
- Jean-Baptiste Perrin 1926
- Louis-Victor de Broglie 1929
- Alfred Kastler 1966
- Louis Néel 1970
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes 1991
- Georges Charpak 1992
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 1997
- Albert Fert 2007
- Serge Haroche 2012
- Gérard Mourou 2018
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Alphonse Laveran 1907
- Alexis Carrel 1912
- Charles Richet 1913
- Charles Nicolle 1928
- André Frédéric Cournand 1956
- François Jacob 1965
- André Lwoff in 1965
- Jacques Monod 1965
- Roger Guillemin 1977
- Jean Dausset 1980
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi 2008
- Luc Montagnier 2008
Nobel Prize in Economics
- Gérard Debreu 1983
- Maurice Allais 1988
- Jean Tirole 2014
Web links
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