Nobel Prize winners
from Australia.

Born in Atherton, Australia. Recognized “for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle”.

• 1964Physics

Born in Kalgoorlie, Australia. Recognized “for their discovery of the bacterium <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease”.

• 2005Medicine

Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Recognized “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”.

• 2009Medicine

Born in Adelaide, Australia. Recognized “for their discovery of the bacterium <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease”.

• 2005Medicine

Born in Sydney, Australia. Recognized “for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions”.

• 1975Chemistry

Born in Brisbane, Australia. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence”.

• 1996Medicine

Born in Traralgon, Australia. Recognized “for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance”.

• 1960Medicine

Born in Adelaide, Australia. Recognized “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”.

• 1945Medicine

Born in Melbourne, Australia. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane”.

• 1963Medicine

Born in Adelaide, Australia. Recognized “for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays”.

• 1915Physics