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Nobel Prizes by Country
Modern countries ranked by number of Nobel Prize laureates born within their current borders, with a notable laureate from each.
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Birth Location (Modern)↕ | Laureates↕ | Notable Laureate↕ |
|---|---|---|
USA | 296 | A. Michael Spence |
United Kingdom | 94 | Alan Lloyd Hodgkin |
Germany | 92 | Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt |
France | 63 | Alain Aspect |
Japan | 30 | Akira Suzuki |
Sweden | 30 | Allvar Gullstrand |
Russia | 29 | Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
Canada | 22 | Alice Munro |
Poland | 21 | Friedrich Bergius |
the Netherlands | 20 | Bernard L. Feringa |
Italy | 20 | Camillo Golgi |
Switzerland | 19 | Charles Albert Gobat |
Austria | 19 | Alfred Hermann Fried |
Norway | 13 | Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson |
Denmark | 12 | Aage Niels Bohr |
Hungary | 12 | Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt |
China | 12 | Charles Kuen Kao |
Scotland | 11 | Angus Deaton |
Australia | 10 | Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov |
India | 9 | Abhijit Banerjee |
Belgium | 9 | Albert Claude |
South Africa | 9 | Allan M. Cormack |
Spain | 7 | Camilo José Cela |
Israel | 6 | Aaron Ciechanover |
Egypt | 6 | Ahmed H. Zewail |
Czech Republic | 6 | Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau |
Finland | 5 | Artturi Ilmari Virtanen |
Northern Ireland | 5 | Elizabeth Williams |
Ireland | 5 | Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton |
Ukraine | 5 | Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov |
Argentina | 4 | Adolfo Pérez Esquivel |
Turkey | 4 | Aziz Sancar |
Romania | 4 | Elie Wiesel |
Lithuania | 3 | Aaron Klug |
Pakistan | 3 | Abdus Salam |
New Zealand | 3 | Alan G. MacDiarmid |
Mexico | 3 | Alfonso García Robles |
South Korea | 3 | Charles J. Pedersen |
Iran | 3 | Doris Lessing |
Belarus | 3 | Menachem Begin |
Algeria | 2 | Albert Camus |
Venezuela | 2 | Baruj Benacerraf |
East Timor | 2 | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo |
Saint Lucia | 2 | Derek Walcott |
Portugal | 2 | António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz |
Liberia | 2 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |
Colombia | 2 | Gabriel García Márquez |
Luxembourg | 2 | Gabriel Lippmann |
Chile | 2 | Gabriela Mistral |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 | Ivo Andrić |
Guatemala | 2 | Miguel Angel Asturias |
Ethiopia | 1 | Abiy Ahmed Ali |
Zimbabwe | 1 | Albert John Lutuli |
Lebanon | 1 | Ardem Patapoutian |
Myanmar | 1 | Aung San Suu Kyi |
Cyprus | 1 | Christopher A. Pissarides |
Madagascar | 1 | Claude Simon |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1 | Denis Mukwege |
Bulgaria | 1 | Elias Canetti |
Slovenia | 1 | Fritz Pregl |
Iceland | 1 | Halldór Kiljan Laxness |
Ghana | 1 | Kofi Atta Annan |
Vietnam | 1 | Le Duc Tho |
Croatia | 1 | Leopold Ruzicka |
Azerbaijan | 1 | Lev Davidovich Landau |
Philippines | 1 | Maria Ressa |
Peru | 1 | Mario Vargas Llosa |
North Macedonia | 1 | Mother Teresa |
Bangladesh | 1 | Muhammad Yunus |
Iraq | 1 | Nadia Murad Basee Taha |
Faroe Islands (Denmark) | 1 | Niels Ryberg Finsen |
Greece | 1 | Odysseus Elytis |
Jordan | 1 | Omar M. Yaghi |
Costa Rica | 1 | Oscar Arias Sánchez |
Brazil | 1 | Peter Brian Medawar |
Slovakia | 1 | Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard |
Tunisia | 1 | Pierre Agostini |
Guadeloupe, France | 1 | Saint-John Perse |
Morocco | 1 | Serge Haroche |
Yemen | 1 | Tawakkol Karman |
Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul |
Kenya | 1 | Wangari Muta Maathai |
Latvia | 1 | Wilhelm Ostwald |
Indonesia | 1 | Willem Einthoven |
Nigeria | 1 | Wole Soyinka |
Taiwan | 1 | Yuan T. Lee |
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