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TheNobel Prize is an annual, international prize first awarded in 1901 for achievements inPhysics,Chemistry,Physiology or Medicine,Literature, andPeace. An associated prize inEconomics 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: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. The first Asian recipient,Rabindranath Tagore, was awarded the Literature Prize in 1913. In 1930,C. V. Raman became the first Asian recipient of a Nobel Prize in one of the sciences. The most Nobel Prizes awarded to Asians in a single year was in 2014, when five Asians became laureates. The most recent Asian laureates, Japanese scientistShimon Sakaguchi andSusumu Kitagawa were awarded their prize in 2025.

To date (2025), there have been sixty-seven Asian winners of the Nobel Prize, including thirty-twoJapanese, fourteenIsraeli, nineIndian (not including non-Indian Laureates born in India) and eightChinese (not including non-Chinese Laureates born in China). The list does not includeRussians.

Physics

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As of 2021, there are 21 Asians or Asian Americans who have won theNobel Prize in Physics. Japanese comprise the majority, with 12 laureates.

YearImageLaureateCountry at the time of the awardCategoryComment
1930Chandrasekhara Venkata RamanBritish IndiaPhysicsFirst Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Science
1949Hideki YukawaJapanPhysicsFirst Japanese Nobel laureate
1957Chen Ning YangTaiwanPhysicsFirst Chinese Nobel laureate
1957Tsung-Dao LeeTaiwanPhysicsFirst Chinese Nobel laureate
1965Shin'ichiro TomonagaJapanPhysics
1973Leo EsakiJapanPhysics
1976Samuel C. C. TingUnited StatesPhysicsDual-citizen ofUnited States andTaiwanRepublic of China
1979Abdus SalamPakistanPhysicsFirst Pakistani Nobel laureate
1983Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharUnited StatesPhysicsBorn inIndia
1997Steven ChuUnited StatesPhysicsBorn in United States
1998Daniel C. TsuiUnited StatesPhysicsBorn in China
2002Masatoshi KoshibaJapanPhysics
2008Yoichiro NambuUnited StatesPhysicsBorn inJapan
2008Makoto KobayashiJapanPhysics
2008Toshihide MaskawaJapanPhysics
2009Charles K. KaoUnited Kingdom andUnited StatesPhysicsFirst Hong Kong citizenship Nobel laureate
2014Isamu AkasakiJapanPhysics
2014Hiroshi AmanoJapanPhysics
2014Shuji NakamuraUnited StatesPhysicsBorn inJapan
2015Takaaki KajitaJapanPhysics
2021Syukuro ManabeUnited StatesPhysicsBorn inJapan

Chemistry

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As of 2024, there are 20 Asians or Asian Americans who won theNobel Prize in Chemistry, with the Japanese comprising the most with 9 laureates.

YearImageLaureateCountry at the time of the awardCategoryComment
1981Kenichi FukuiJapanChemistryFirst Asian and Japanese Nobel laureate in Chemistry
1986Yuan T. LeeTaiwan andUnited StatesChemistryFirst Taiwanese Nobel laureate
1987Charles J. PedersenUnited StatesChemistryJapanese mother; born in Korea
2000Hideki ShirakawaJapanChemistry
2001Ryōji NoyoriJapanChemistry
2002Koichi TanakaJapanChemistry
2004Aaron CiechanoverIsraelChemistry
2004Avram HershkoIsraelChemistry
2008Osamu ShimomuraJapanChemistry
2008Roger Y. TsienUnited StatesChemistryBorn in United States
2009Venki RamakrishnanUnited Kingdom andUnited StatesChemistryBorn in India
2009Ada YonathIsraelChemistry
2010Ei-ichi NegishiJapanChemistry
2010Akira SuzukiJapanChemistry
2011Dan ShechtmanIsraelChemistry
2013Arieh WarshelIsrael andUnited StatesChemistry
2013Michael LevittIsrael,United Kingdom andUnited StatesChemistry
2015Aziz SancarTurkey andUnited StatesChemistryFirst Turkish Nobel laureate in science
2019Akira YoshinoJapanChemistry
2024Demis HassabisUnited KingdomChemistrySingaporean mother
2025Susumu KitagawaJapanChemistry

Physiology or Medicine

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As of 2025, there are 8 Asians who wonNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with the Japanese comprising the most with 6 laureates.

YearImageLaureateCountry at the time of the awardCategoryComment
1968Har Gobind KhoranaUnited StatesPhysiology or MedicineFirst Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. Born in India
1987Susumu TonegawaJapanPhysiology or MedicineFirst Japanese Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
2012Shinya YamanakaJapanPhysiology or MedicineFirst Nobel Medicine Laureate to achieve rewarded results in Asia
2015Satoshi ŌmuraJapanPhysiology or Medicine
2015Tu YouyouChinaPhysiology or MedicineFirst Chinese woman Nobel laureate
2016Yoshinori OhsumiJapanPhysiology or Medicine
2018Tasuku HonjoJapanPhysiology or Medicine
2025Shimon SakaguchiJapanPhysiology or Medicine

Literature

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As of 2024, there are 9 Asians who wonNobel Prize in Literature, with the Japanese comprising the most with 3 laureates.

YearImageLaureateCountry at the time of the awardCategoryComment
1913Rabindranath TagoreBritish IndiaLiteratureFirst Asian and Indian Nobel laureate
1966Shmuel Yosef AgnonIsraelLiteratureFirst Israeli Nobel laureate
1968Yasunari KawabataJapanLiterature
1994Kenzaburō ŌeJapanLiterature
2000Gao XingjianFranceLiteratureBorn in China
2001V. S. NaipaulUnited KingdomLiteratureIndian origin. Born in Trinidad and Tobago.
2006Orhan PamukTurkeyLiteratureFirst Turkish Nobel laureate
2012Mo YanChinaLiterature
2017Kazuo IshiguroUnited KingdomLiteratureBorn in Japan
2024Han KangSouth KoreaLiteratureFirst Asian female Nobel laureate in Literature

Peace

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As of 2024, there are 23 Asians who wonNobel Peace Prize, with the Israeli and Indian comprising the most with 3 laureates.

YearImageLaureateCountry at the time of the awardCategoryComment
1973Lê Đức Thọ
(declined award)		North VietnamPeaceFirst Asian and Vietnamese Nobel laureate in Peace
1974Eisaku SatōJapanPeace
1978Menachem BeginIsraelPeace
1979Mother TeresaIndiaPeaceFirst Asian woman Nobel laureate
1989Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai LamaIndia,China andTibetPeaceFirst Tibetan Nobel laureate
1991Aung San Suu KyiBurmaPeaceFirst Myanmar Nobel laureate
1994Yasser ArafatPalestinePeaceFirst Palestinian Arab in Nobel laureate
1994Shimon PeresIsraelPeace
1994Yitzhak RabinIsraelPeace
1996Carlos Filipe Ximenes BeloTimor-LestePeaceFirst Timorese Nobel laureate
1996José Ramos-HortaTimor-LestePeaceFirst Timorese Nobel laureate
2000Kim Dae-jungSouth KoreaPeaceFirst Korean Nobel laureate
2003Shirin EbadiIranPeaceFirst Iranian Nobel laureate
2006Muhammad YunusBangladeshPeaceFirst Bangladeshi Nobel laureate in Peace
2006Grameen BankBangladeshPeaceFirst Bangladeshi Nobel laureate in Peace and First Asian organization to receive the award
2010Liu XiaoboChinaPeaceFirst Asian Nobel laureate in prison
2011Tawakkul KarmanYemenPeaceFirst Arab Woman and First Yemeni Nobel laureate
2014Kailash SatyarthiIndiaPeace
2014Malala YousafzaiPakistanPeaceFirst Pakistani Woman Nobel laureate and youngest Nobel laureate
2018Nadia MuradIraqPeaceFirst Iraqi Nobel laureate
2021Maria RessaPhilippinesPeaceFirst Filipino Nobel laureate
2023Narges MohammadiIranPeaceSecond Iranian Nobel laureate and awarded while in prison
2024Nihon HidankyoJapanPeace

Economics

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As of 2024, five Asians have won theNobel Prize in Economics.

YearImageLaureateCountry at the time of the awardCategoryComment
1998Amartya SenIndiaEconomicsFirst Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Economics.
2002Daniel KahnemanIsrael andUnited StatesEconomics
2005Robert AumannIsrael andUnited StatesEconomics
2019Abhijit BanerjeeUnited StatesEconomicsBorn in India[3]
2021Joshua AngristIsrael andUnited StatesEconomics
2024Daron AcemogluTurkey andUnited StatesEconomics
2025Joel MokyrIsrael,Holland andUnited StatesEconomics

Non-Asian born Laureates of Asian descent

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Main article:List of Chinese Nobel laureates § Laureates of Han Chinese linkage

Non-Asian Laureates born in Asia

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Main article:List of Chinese Nobel laureates § Non-Chinese Laureates born in China
Main article:List of Japanese Nobel laureates § Laureates with Japanese linkage
Main article:List of Indian Nobel laureates § Others

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Nobel Prize" (2007), inEncyclopædia Britannica, accessed 14 November 2007, fromEncyclopædia Britannica Online:

    An additional award, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden and was first awarded in 1969

  2. ^"All Nobel Laureates". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved2010-03-01.
  3. ^Hannon, Dominic Chopping and Paul."Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded for Work Alleviating Poverty".WSJ. Retrieved14 October 2019.
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