Nobel Prize winners
from Canada.

Born in Wingham, Canada. Recognized “master of the contemporary short story”.

• 2013Literature

Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Recognized “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”.

• 2015Physics

Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Recognized “for the development of neutron spectroscopy”.

• 1994Physics

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Recognized “for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer”.

• 1966Medicine

Born in Guelph, Canada. Recognized “for his empirical contributions to labour economics”.

• 2021Economic Sciences

Born in Windsor, ON, Canada. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system”.

• 1981Medicine

Born in Guelph, Canada. Recognized “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”.

• 2018Physics

Born in Alliston, Canada. Recognized “for the discovery of insulin”.

• 1923Medicine

Born in Neudorf, Canada. Recognized “for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes”.

• 1983Chemistry

Born in Winnipeg, Canada. Recognized “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”.

• 2019Physics

Born in Toronto, Canada. Recognized “for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis”.

• 1957Peace

Born in Timmins, ON, Canada. Recognized “for a new method to determine the value of derivatives”.

• 1997Economic Sciences

Born in Guelph, Canada. Recognized “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction”.

• 2025Economic Sciences

Born in Montreal, Canada. Recognized “for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity”.

• 2011Medicine

Born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Recognized “for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics”.

• 1990Physics

Born in Kingston, ON, Canada. Recognized “for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas”.

• 1999Economic Sciences

Born in Montreal, Canada. Recognized “for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems”.

• 1992Chemistry

Born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. Recognized “for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work”.

• 1976Literature

Born in Montreal, Canada. Recognized “for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA”.

• 1989Chemistry

Born in Amherst, NS, Canada. Recognized “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor”.

• 2009Physics

Born in Niagara Falls, Canada. Recognized “for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures”.

• 1949Chemistry

Born in Victoria, BC, Canada. Recognized “for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information”.

• 1996Economic Sciences