List of Polish 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 Poles received the award:
Nobel Peace Prize
- Lech Wałęsa 1983
- Józef Rotblat (UK / PL) 1995
Nobel Prize in literature
- Henryk Sienkiewicz 1905
- Wladyslaw Reymont in 1924
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (USA / PL) 1978
- Czesław Miłosz 1980
- Wisława Szymborska 1996
- Olga Tokarczuk 2018
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Marie Curie (FR / PL) 1911
- Roald Hoffmann (USA / PL) 1981
Nobel Price for physics
- Marie Curie (FR / PL) 1903
- Georges Charpak (FR / PL) 1992
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Andrzej Wiktor Schally (USA / PL) 1977
Nobel Prize in Economics
- Leonid Hurwicz (USA / PL) 2007
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