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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Eric R. Kandel
Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system”.
- 2000Medicine
- Erwin Schrödinger
Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory”.
- 1933Physics
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Karl Landsteiner
Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for his discovery of human blood groups”.
- 1930Medicine
- Karl von Frisch
Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”.
- 1973Medicine
- Konrad Lorenz
Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns”.
- 1973Medicine
- Martin Karplus
Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”.
- 2013Chemistry
- Max Ferdinand Perutz
Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for their studies of the structures of globular proteins”.
- 1962Chemistry
- 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
- 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
- Richard Kuhn
Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for his work on carotenoids and vitamins”.
- 1938Chemistry
- Robert Bárány
Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus”.
- 1914Medicine
- Victor Franz Hess
Born in Peggau, Austria. Recognized “for his discovery of cosmic radiation”.
- 1936Physics
- Walter Kohn
Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for his development of the density-functional theory”.
- 1998Chemistry
- Wolfgang Pauli
Born in Vienna, Austria. Recognized “for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle”.
- 1945Physics
COUNTRY TRENDS
Awards by category and decade
Recipient-award counts
Prize category
- Physics
- 4
- Chemistry
- 5
- Medicine
- 6
- Literature
- 2
- Peace
- 2
- Economic Sciences
- 1
Award decade
- 2020s
- 1
- 2010s
- 2
- 2000s
- 3
- 1990s
- 1
- 1970s
- 3
- 1960s
- 1
- 1940s
- 1
- 1930s
- 4
- 1920s
- 2
- 1910s
- 2