Following is a list ofNobel laureates who are eitherPakistani or were born in the region that is now Pakistan but are not Pakistani by nationality.
As of 2022[update], thelist of PakistaniNobel Prize laureates consists of following people.[1]
| Year | Portrait | Laureate | Subject | Rationale |
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| 1979 |  | Abdus Salam | Physics | Awarded jointly toSheldon Glashow,Abdus Salam andSteven Weinberg – "for their contributions to the theory of theunified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of theweak neutral current"[2][3] |
| 2014 |  | Malala Yousafzai | Peace | Awarded jointly toKailash Satyarthi andMalala Yousafzai – "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education."[4] |
The laureates below were born in the region of Pakistan during theBritish Raj period.
| Year | Laureate | Country | Subject | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 |  | Har Gobind Khorana (born inRaipur,Punjab Province, British India) |  United States | Physiology or Medicine | Awarded along with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg – "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis."[5] |
| 1983 |  | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (born inLahore,Punjab Province, British India) | United States | Physics | "For his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars."[6] |
Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam won the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics. He won the award for his work in developing a unification hypothesis concerning electromagnetic and weak interactions between atomic particles.
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