FIRST WINNERS------

1901, The Nobel Prize in Physics

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
1901, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
1901, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Emil Adolf von Behring
1901, The Nobel Prize in Literature
Sully Prudhomme
1901, The Nobel Peace Prize
Jean Henry Dunant
1901, The Nobel Peace Prize
Frédéric Passy

List of Asian Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prize is an annual, international prize first awarded in 1901 for achievements
in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. An associated prize in Economics has
been awarded since 1969.[1] Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals.[2]
Asians have been the recipients of all six award categories: Peace, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, Literature,
Chemistry and Economics. The first Asian recipient, Rabindranath Tagore, was awarded the Literature Prize in
1913. The most recent, Satoshi Ōmura, Tu
Youyou, Takaaki Kajita and Aziz Sancar, were awarded their prizes in 2015.

Laureates[edit]

Year ! Image Laureate Country Category Comment

Rabindranath first Asian and Indian

1913 India Literature
Tagore Nobel laureate
Year ! Image Laureate Country Category Comment

first Asian and Indian

Chandrasekhara
1930 India Physics Nobel laureate in
Venkata Raman
Science

first Japanese Nobel

1949 Hideki Yukawa Japan Physics
laureate in science

United States (born first Chinese Nobel

1957 Tsung-Dao Lee Physics
in China) laureate in science

United States (born

1957 Chen Ning Yang Physics
in China)

Sin-Itiro
1965 Japan Physics
Tomonaga

first Asian and Indian

Har Gobind United States (born Physiology
1968 Nobel laureate in
Khorana in British India) or Medicine
Physiology or Medicine
Year ! Image Laureate Country Category Comment

Yasunari first Japanese Nobel

1968 Japan Literature
Kawabata laureate in Literature

first Asian and

1973 Lê Đức Thọ North Vietnam Peace Vietnamese Nobel
laureate in Peace

1973 Leo Esaki Japan Physics

first Japanese
Nobel Peace laureate
1974 Eisaku Satō Japan Peace
1979 - Mother
TERESA

first Pakistani Nobel

1979 Abdus Salam Pakistan Physics
laureate in science

first Asian and

1981 Kenichi Fukui Japan Chemistry Japanese Nobel laureate
in Chemistry

Subrahmanyan United States (born

1983 Physics
Chandrasekhar in British India)
Year ! Image Laureate Country Category Comment

1986 Yuan T. Lee Taiwan Chemistry

Susumu Physiology
1987 Japan
Tonegawa or Medicine

Tenzin Gyatso,
first Tibetan Nobel
1988 the 14th Dalai Tibet Peace
laureate in Peace
Lama

Aung San Suu first Asian woman

1991 Burma Peace
Kyi Nobel laureate

first Palestinian Arab in

1994 Yasser Arafat Palestine Peace
Nobel laureate in Peace

Carlos Filipe first Timorese Nobel

1996 Timor-Leste Peace
Ximenes Belo laureate

José Ramos- first Timorese Nobel

1996 Timor-Leste Peace
Horta laureate
Year ! Image Laureate Country Category Comment

1997 Kenzaburō Ōe Japan Literature

first Asian and Indian

1998 Amartya Sen India Economics Nobel laureate in
Economics

United States (born

1998 Daniel C. Tsui Physics
in China)

France (born first Chinese Nobel

2000 Gao Xingjian Literature
in China) laureate in Literature

Hideki
2001 Japan Chemistry
Shirakawa

2001 Ryōji Noyori Japan Chemistry

first Korean Nobel

2000 Kim Dae-jung South Korea Peace
laureate

first Iranian Nobel

2003 Shirin Ebadi Iran Peace
laureate
Year ! Image Laureate Country Category Comment

2002 Koichi Tanaka Japan Chemistry

Masatoshi
2002 Japan Physics
Koshiba

first Turkish Nobel

2006 Orhan Pamuk Turkey Literature
laureate in Literature

Muhammad first Bangladeshi Nobel

2006 Bangladesh Peace
Yunus laureate in Peace

Osamu
2008 Japan Chemistry
Shimomura

Makoto
2008 Japan Physics
Kobayashi

Toshihide
2008 Japan Physics
Maskawa

2008 Yoichiro Nambu Japan Physics

Year ! Image Laureate Country Category Comment

2009 Charles K. Kao Hong Kong Physics

United
Venkatraman
2009 Kingdom / United Chemistry
Ramakrishnan
States(born in India)

2010 Ei-ichi Negishi Japan Chemistry

2010 Akira Suzuki Japan Chemistry

first Chinese Nobel

2010 Liu Xiaobo China Peace
laureate in Peace

first Arab Woman and

Tawakkul
2011 Yemen Peace first Yemeni Nobel
Karman
laureate inPeace

Shinya Physiology
2012 Japan
Yamanaka or Medicine
Year ! Image Laureate Country Category Comment

2012 Mo Yan China Literature

2014 Isamu Akasaki Japan Physics

2014 Hiroshi Amano Japan Physics

United States (born

2014 Shuji Nakamura Physics
in Japan)

Kailash first Indian Nobel

2014 India Peace
Satyarthi laureate in Peace

first Pakistani Woman

Malala Nobel laureate
2014 Pakistan Peace
Yousafzai in Peace and youngest
Nobel laureate

Physiology
2015 Satoshi Ōmura Japan or Medicine

Physiology
2015 Tu Youyou China or Medicine
Year ! Image Laureate Country Category Comment

2015 Takaaki Kajita Japan Physics

first Turkish Nobel

2015 Aziz Sancar Turkey Chemistry
laureate in science

Physiology
Yoshinori
2016 Japan or Medicine
Ohsumi