makers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either 'Nobel laureates' or 'Nobel Prize winners'.
' No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physics section.
' No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physics section.
' No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physics section.
' No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physics section.
' No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physics section.
' No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physics section.
| '2006' | Roger D. Kornberg |
| '2005' | Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock, Yves Chauvin |
| '2004' | Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose |
| '2003' | Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon |
| '2002' | John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich |
| '2001' | William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless |
| '2000' | Alan Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa |
| '1999' | Ahmed Zewail |
| '1998' | Walter Kohn, John Pople |
| '1997' | Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou |
| '1996' | Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto, Richard E. Smalley |
| '1995' | Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland |
| '1994' | George A. Olah |
| '1993' | Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith |
| '1992' | Rudolph A. Marcus |
| '1991' | Richard R. Ernst |
| '1990' | Elias James Corey |
| '1989' | Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech |
| '1988' | Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel |
| '1987' | Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen |
| '1986' | Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi |
| '1985' | Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle |
| '1984' | Bruce Merrifield |
| '1983' | Henry Taube |
| '1982' | Aaron Klug |
| '1981' | Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann |
| '1980' | Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger |
| '1979' | Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig |
| '1978' | Peter Mitchell |
| '1977' | Ilya Prigogine |
| '1976' | William Lipscomb |
| '1975' | John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog |
| '1974' | Paul J. Flory |
| '1973' | Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson |
| '1972' | Christian Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein |
| '1971' | Gerhard Herzberg |
| '1970' | Luis Leloir |
| '1969' | Derek Barton, Odd Hassel |
| '1968' | Lars Onsager |
| '1967' | Manfred Eigen, Ronald G.W. Norrish, George Porter |
| '1966' | Robert S. Mulliken |
| '1965' | Robert Burns Woodward |
| '1964' | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
| '1963' | Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta |
| '1962' | Max F. Perutz, John C. Kendrew |
| '1961' | Melvin Calvin |
| '1960' | Willard F. Libby |
| '1959' | Jaroslav Heyrovský |
| '1958' | Frederick Sanger |
| '1957' | Lord Todd |
| '1956' | Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Nikolay Semenov |
| '1955' | Vincent du Vigneaud |
| '1954' | Linus Pauling |
| '1953' | Hermann Staudinger |
| '1952' | Edwin M. McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg |
| '1951' | Max Theiler |
| '1950' | Otto Diels, Kurt Alder |
| '1949' | William F. Giauque |
| '1948' | Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius |
| '1947' | Sir Robert Robinson |
| '1946' | James B. Sumner, John H. Northrop, Wendell M. Stanley |
| '1945' | Artturi Virtanen |
| '1944' | Otto Hahn |
| '1943' | George de Hevesy |
| '1942' | No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the chemistry section. |
| '1941' | No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the chemistry section. |
| '1940' | No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the chemistry section. |
| '1939' | Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka |
| '1938' | Richard Kuhn |
| '1937' | Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer |
| '1936' | Peter Debye |
| '1935' | Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie |
| '1934' | Harold C. Urey |
| '1933' | No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the chemistry section. |
| '1932' | Irving Langmuir |
| '1931' | Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius |
| '1930' | Hans Fischer |
| '1929' | Arthur Harden, Hans von Euler-Chelpin |
| '1928' | Adolf Windaus |
| '1927' | Heinrich Wieland |
| '1926' | The Svedberg |
| '1925' | Richard Zsigmondy |
| '1924' | No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the chemistry section. |
| '1923' | Fritz Pregl |
| '1922' | Francis W. Aston |
| '1921' | Frederick Soddy |
| '1920' | Walther Nernst |
| '1919' | No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the chemistry section. |
| '1918' | Fritz Haber |
| '1917' | No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the chemistry section. |
| '1916' | No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the chemistry section. |
| '1915' | Richard Willstätter |
| '1914' | Theodore William Richards |
| '1913' | Alfred Werner |
| '1912' | Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier |
| '1911' | Maria Skłodowska-Curie |
| '1910' | Otto Wallach |
| '1909' | Wilhelm Ostwald |
| '1908' | Ernest Rutherford |
| '1907' | Eduard Buchner |
| '1906' | Henri Moissan |
| '1905' | Adolf von Baeyer |
| '1904' | Sir William Ramsay |
| '1903' | Svante Arrhenius |
| '1902' | Emil Fischer |
| '1901' | Jacobus H. van 't Hoff |
| '2006' | Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello |
| '2005' | Barry J. Marshall, J. Robin Warren |
| '2004' | Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck |
| '2003' | Paul C. Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield |
| '2002' | Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John E. Sulston |
| '2001' | Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Sir Paul Nurse |
| '2000' | Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel |
| '1999' | Günter Blobel |
| '1998' | Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad |
| '1997' | Stanley B. Prusiner |
| '1996' | Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel |
| '1995' | Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus |
| '1994' | Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell |
| '1993' | Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A. Sharp |
| '1992' | Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs |
| '1991' | Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann |
| '1990' | Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas |
| '1989' | J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus |
| '1988' | James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings |
| '1987' | Susumu Tonegawa |
| '1986' | Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini |
| '1985' | Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein |
| '1984' | Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler, César Milstein |
| '1983' | Barbara McClintock |
| '1982' | Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane |
| '1981' | Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel |
| '1980' | Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell |
| '1979' | Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield |
| '1978' | Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith |
| '1977' | Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow |
| '1976' | Baruch S. Blumberg, D. Carleton Gajdusek |
| '1975' | David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard M. Temin |
| '1974' | Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade |
| '1973' | Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen |
| '1972' | Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter |
| '1971' | Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. |
| '1970' | Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod |
| '1969' | Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey, Salvador E. Luria |
| '1968' | Robert W. Holley, H. Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg |
| '1967' | Ragnar Granit, Haldan K. Hartline, George Wald |
| '1966' | Peyton Rous, Charles B. Huggins |
| '1965' | François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod |
| '1964' | Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen |
| '1963' | Sir John Eccles, Alan L. Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley |
| '1962' | Francis Crick, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins |
| '1961' | Georg von Békésy |
| '1960' | Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Medawar |
| '1959' | Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg |
| '1958' | George Beadle, Edward Tatum, Joshua Lederberg |
| '1957' | Daniel Bovet |
| '1956' | André F. Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards |
| '1955' | Hugo Theorell |
| '1954' | John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins |
| '1953' | Hans Krebs, Fritz Lipmann |
| '1952' | Selman A. Waksman |
| '1951' | Max Theiler |
| '1950' | Edward C. Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip S. Hench |
| '1949' | Walter Hess, Egas Moniz |
| '1948' | Paul Müller |
| '1947' | Carl Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay |
| '1946' | Hermann J. Muller |
| '1945' | Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst B. Chain, Sir Howard Florey |
| '1944' | Joseph Erlanger, Herbert S. Gasser |
| '1943' | Henrik Dam, Edward A. Doisy |
| '1942' | No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physiology section. |
| '1941' | No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physiology section. |
| '1940' | No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physiology section. |
| '1939' | Gerhard Domagk |
| '1938' | Corneille Heymans |
| '1937' | Albert Szent-Györgyi |
| '1936' | Sir Henry Dale, Otto Loewi |
| '1935' | Hans Spemann |
| '1934' | George H. Whipple, George R. Minot, William P. Murphy |
| '1933' | Thomas H. Morgan |
| '1932' | Sir Charles Sherrington, Edgar Adrian |
| '1931' | Otto Heinrich Warburg |
| '1930' | Karl Landsteiner |
| '1929' | Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Hopkins |
| '1928' | Charles Nicolle |
| '1927' | Julius Wagner-Jauregg |
| '1926' | Johannes Fibiger |
| '1925' | No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section. |
| '1924' | Willem Einthoven |
| '1923' | Frederick G. Banting, John James Richard Macleod |
| '1922' | Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Meyerhof |
| '1921' | No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section. |
| '1920' | August Krogh |
| '1919' | Jules Bordet |
| '1918' | No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section. |
| '1917' | No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section. |
| '1916' | No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section. |
| '1915' | No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section. |
| '1914' | No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section. |
| '1913' | Robert Bárány |
| '1912' | Alexis Carrel |
| '1911' | Allvar Gullstrand |
| '1910' | Albrecht Kossel |
| '1909' | Theodor Kocher |
| '1908' | Ilya Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich |
| '1907' | Alphonse Laveran |
| '1906' | Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal |
| '1905' | Robert Koch |
| '1904' | Ivan Pavlov |
| '1903' | Niels Ryberg Finsen |
| '1902' | Ronald Ross |
| '1901' | Emil von Behring |
| '2006' | Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus |
| '2005' | International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei |
| '2004' | Wangari Maathai |
| '2003' | Shirin Ebadi |
| '2002' | Jimmy Carter |
| '2001' | United Nations, Kofi Annan |
| '2000' | Kim Dae-jung |
| '1999' | Médecins Sans Frontières |
| '1998' | John Hume, David Trimble |
| '1997' | International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams |
| '1996' | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos Horta |
| '1995' | Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs |
| '1994' | Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin |
| '1993' | Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk |
| '1992' | Rigoberta Menchú |
| '1991' | Aung San Suu Kyi |
| '1990' | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| '1989' | Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama |
| '1988' | United Nations Peacekeeping Forces |
| '1987' | Óscar Arias |
| '1986' | Elie Wiesel |
| '1985' | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War |
| '1984' | Desmond Tutu |
| '1983' | Lech Wałęsa |
| '1982' | Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles |
| '1981' | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| '1980' | Adolfo Pérez Esquivel |
| '1979' | Mother Teresa |
| '1978' | Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin |
| '1977' | Amnesty International |
| '1976' | Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan |
| '1975' | Andrei Sakharov |
| '1974' | Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato |
| '1973' | Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho |
| '1972' | No prize awarded. The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund. |
| '1971' | Willy Brandt |
| '1970' | Norman Borlaug |
| '1969' | International Labour Organization |
| '1968' | René Cassin |
| '1967' | No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1966' | No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1965' | United Nations Children's Fund |
| '1964' | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| '1963' | International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies |
| '1962' | Linus Pauling |
| '1961' | Dag Hammarskjöld (posthumously) |
| '1960' | Albert Lutuli |
| '1959' | Philip Noel-Baker |
| '1958' | Georges Pire |
| '1957' | Lester Bowles Pearson |
| '1956' | No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1955' | No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1954' | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| '1953' | George C. Marshall |
| '1952' | Albert Schweitzer |
| '1951' | Léon Jouhaux |
| '1950' | Ralph Bunche |
| '1949' | Lord Boyd Orr |
| '1948' | No prize awarded. Money allocated 1/3 to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1947' | Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee |
| '1946' | Emily Greene Balch, John R. Mott |
| '1945' | Cordell Hull |
| '1944' | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| '1943' | No prize awarded. Money allocated 1/3 to Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1942' | No prize awarded. Money allocated 1/3 to Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1941' | No prize awarded. Money allocated 1/3 to Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1940' | No prize awarded. Money allocated 1/3 to Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1939' | No prize awarded. Money allocated 1/3 to Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1938' | Nansen International Office for Refugees |
| '1937' | The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood |
| '1936' | Carlos Saavedra Lamas |
| '1935' | Carl von Ossietzky |
| '1934' | Arthur Henderson |
| '1933' | Sir Norman Angell |
| '1932' | No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1931' | Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler |
| '1930' | Nathan Söderblom |
| '1929' | Frank B. Kellogg |
| '1928' | No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1927' | Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde |
| '1926' | Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann |
| '1925' | Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes |
| '1924' | No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1923' | No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1922' | Fridtjof Nansen |
| '1921' | Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange |
| '1920' | Léon Bourgeois |
| '1919' | Woodrow Wilson |
| '1918' | No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1917' | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| '1916' | No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1915' | No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1914' | No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section. |
| '1913' | Henri La Fontaine |
| '1912' | Elihu Root |
| '1911' | Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried |
| '1910' | Permanent International Peace Bureau |
| '1909' | Auguste Beernaert, Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant |
| '1908' | Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer |
| '1907' | Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault |
| '1906' | Theodore Roosevelt |
| '1905' | Bertha von Suttner |
| '1904' | Institute of International Law |
| '1903' | Randal Cremer |
| '1902' | Élie Ducommun, Albert Gobat |
| '1901' | Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy |