Nobel Prize winners
from Belgium.

Born in Longlier, Belgium. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell”.

• 1974Medicine

Organization headquartered in Belgium. Recognized “for worldwide respect for human rights”.

• 1977Peace

Born in Ostend, Belgium. Recognized “for their prominent position in the international movement for peace and arbitration”.

• 1909Peace

Born in Ghent, Belgium. Recognized “for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration”.

• 1938Medicine

Born in Ghent, Belgium. Recognized “in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations”.

• 1911Literature

Born in Etterbeek, Belgium. Recognized “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider”.

• 2013Physics

Born in Dinant, Belgium. Recognized “for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity”.

• 1958Peace

Born in Brussels, Belgium. Recognized “for his unparalleled contribution to the organization of peaceful internationalism”.

• 1913Peace

Organization headquartered in Belgium. Recognized “for its striving in public law to develop peaceful ties between nations and to make the laws of war more humane”.

• 1904Peace

Born in Soignies, Belgium. Recognized “for his discoveries relating to immunity”.

• 1919Medicine

Born in Menin, Belgium. Recognized “for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”.

• 2005Chemistry