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COUNTRY ARCHIVE · 1911—2022

Nobel Prize winners
from Austria.

20 laureates associated by birthplace or headquarters, with 20 recipient awards across 6 Nobel categories.

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Winners associated with Austria

20 total

  1. Alfred Hermann Fried

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for his effort to expose and fight what he considers to be the main cause of war, namely, the anarchy in international relations”.

    • 1911Peace
  2. Anton Zeilinger

    Born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria. Recognized “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.

    • 2022Physics
  3. Elfriede Jelinek

    Born in Mürzzuschlag, Austria. Recognized “for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power”.

    • 2004Literature
  4. Eric R. Kandel

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system”.

    • 2000Medicine
  5. Erwin Schrödinger

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory”.

    • 1933Physics
  6. Friedrich August von Hayek

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena”.

    • 1974Economic Sciences
  7. International Atomic Energy Agency

    Organization headquartered in Austria. Recognized “for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way”.

    • 2005Peace
  8. Julius Wagner-Jauregg

    Born in Wels, Austria. Recognized “for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica”.

    • 1927Medicine
  9. Karl Landsteiner

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for his discovery of human blood groups”.

    • 1930Medicine
  10. Karl von Frisch

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”.

    • 1973Medicine
  11. Konrad Lorenz

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”.

    • 1973Medicine
  12. Martin Karplus

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”.

    • 2013Chemistry
  13. Max Ferdinand Perutz

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for their studies of the structures of globular proteins”.

    • 1962Chemistry
  14. Peter Handke

    Born in Griffen, Austria. Recognized “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”.

    • 2019Literature
  15. Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for his demonstration of the heterogenous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry”.

    • 1925Chemistry
  16. Richard Kuhn

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for his work on carotenoids and vitamins”.

    • 1938Chemistry
  17. Robert Bárány

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus”.

    • 1914Medicine
  18. Victor Franz Hess

    Born in Peggau, Austria. Recognized “for his discovery of cosmic radiation”.

    • 1936Physics
  19. Walter Kohn

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for his development of the density-functional theory”.

    • 1998Chemistry
  20. Wolfgang Pauli

    Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle”.

    • 1945Physics