Nobel Prize Winners
Facts and Information about Nobel Prizes

Russian Nobel Prize Winners

Here is the full list of Nobel Prize Winners born in Russia. As the present geographical division of some countries evolved over time, the list includes the original Soviet Union and other related areas.

Nobel Prize Winners from Russia

The following table contains Nobel Prize Winners born in Russia. As the geographical division changed over time, the last column contains the details of present country as well.

The most interesting is the two times award of Marie Curie in 1903 and 1911. What is significant is that she won both Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics.

 

Year Nobel Prize Area Name of the Laureate Born in Russia or related country
1977 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Ilya Prigogine Russia
1975 The Nobel Peace Prize Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov Russia
1975 The Prize in Economic Sciences Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich Russian Empire
1973 The Prize in Economic Sciences Wassily Leontief Russia
1971 The Prize in Economic Sciences Simon Kuznets Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
1970 The Nobel Prize in Literature Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Russia
1965 The Nobel Prize in Literature Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov Russia
1964 The Nobel Prize in Physics Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov Russia, Soviet Union
1962 The Nobel Prize in Physics Lev Davidovich Landau Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan)
1958 The Nobel Prize in Physics Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov Russia
1958 The Nobel Prize in Physics Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank Russia
1958 The Nobel Prize in Physics Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm Russia
1958 The Nobel Prize in Literature Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Russia
1956 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov Russia
1952 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Selman Abraham Waksman Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
1945 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Russian Empire (now Finland)
1939 The Nobel Prize in Literature Frans Eemil Sillanpää Russian Empire (now Finland)
1937 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Paul Karrer Russia
1933 The Nobel Prize in Literature Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin Russia
1924 The Nobel Prize in Literature Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Russian Empire (now Poland)
1911 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Marie Curie, née Sklodowska Russian Empire (now Poland)
1908 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
1904 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Russia
1903 The Nobel Prize in Physics Marie Curie, née Sklodowska Russian Empire (now Poland)

 

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