COUNTRY ARCHIVE · 1971—2000
Nobel Prize winners
from Belarus.
4 laureates associated by birthplace or headquarters, with 4 recipient awards across 3 Nobel categories.
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Winners associated with Belarus
4 total
- Menachem Begin
Born in Brest Litovsk, Belarus. Recognized “for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978”.
- 1978Peace
- Shimon Peres
Born in Vishneva, Belarus. Recognized “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”.
- 1994Peace
- Simon Kuznets
Born in Pinsk, Belarus. Recognized “for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development”.
- 1971Economic Sciences
- Zhores I. Alferov
Born in Vitebsk, Belorussia, Belarus. Recognized “for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics”.
- 2000Physics
COUNTRY TRENDS
Awards by category and decade
Recipient-award counts
Prize category
- Physics
- 1
- Peace
- 2
- Economic Sciences
- 1
Award decade
- 2000s
- 1
- 1990s
- 1
- 1970s
- 2