COUNTRY ARCHIVE · 1964—2005
Nobel Prize winners
from Egypt.
6 laureates associated by birthplace or headquarters, with 6 recipient awards across 3 Nobel categories.
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Winners associated with Egypt
6 total
- Ahmed H. Zewail
Born in Damanhur, Egypt. Recognized “for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy”.
- 1999Chemistry
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Born in Cairo, Egypt. Recognized “for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances”.
- 1964Chemistry
- Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat
Born in Mit Abu al-Kawm, Egypt. Recognized “for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978”.
- 1978Peace
- Mohamed ElBaradei
Born in Cairo, Egypt. 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
- Naguib Mahfouz
Born in Cairo, Egypt. Recognized “who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind”.
- 1988Literature
- Yasser Arafat
Born in Cairo, Egypt. Recognized “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”.
- 1994Peace
COUNTRY TRENDS
Awards by category and decade
Recipient-award counts
Prize category
- Chemistry
- 2
- Literature
- 1
- Peace
- 3
Award decade
- 2000s
- 1
- 1990s
- 2
- 1980s
- 1
- 1970s
- 1
- 1960s
- 1