Nobel Prize winners
from France.

Born in Agen, France. Recognized “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.

• 2022Physics

Born in Carcassonne, France. Recognized “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”.

• 2007Physics

Born in Kaysersberg, France. Recognized “for his altruism, reverence for life, and tireless humanitarian work which has helped making the idea of brotherhood between men and nations a living one”.

• 1952Peace

Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France. Recognized “in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs”.

• 1912Medicine

Born in Guebwiller, France. Recognized “for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms”.

• 1966Physics

Born in Mulhouse, France. Recognized “in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry”.

• 1913Chemistry

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament”.

• 1921Literature

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system”.

• 1956Medicine

Born in Ainay-le-Château, France. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis”.

• 1965Medicine

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight”.

• 1947Literature

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.

• 2023Physics

Born in Lillebonne, France. Recognized “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.

• 2022Literature

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity”.

• 1903Physics

Born in Nantes, France. Recognized “for their crucial role in bringing about the Locarno Treaty”.

• 1926Peace

Born in Rouen, France. Recognized “for his work on typhus”.

• 1928Medicine

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases”.

• 1907Medicine

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis”.

• 1913Medicine

Born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, France. Recognized “for the development of a method for genome editing”.

• 2020Chemistry

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”.

• 2019Economic Sciences

Organization headquartered in France. Recognized “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”.

• 2012Peace

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for their contribution to the emergence in France and Germany of a public opinion which favours peaceful international cooperation”.

• 1927Peace

Born in Nancy, France. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis”.

• 1965Medicine

Born in Bordeaux, France. Recognized “for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life”.

• 1952Literature

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus”.

• 2008Medicine

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements”.

• 1935Chemistry

Born in Maillane, France. Recognized “in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist”.

• 1904Literature

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for his lifelong work for international peace conferences, diplomacy and arbitration”.

• 1901Peace

Born in Calais, France. Recognized “for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium”.

• 1983Economic Sciences

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

• 2018Physics

Born in Strasbourg, France. Recognized “for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars”.

• 1967Physics

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented”.

• 1927Literature

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him”.

• 1906Chemistry

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements”.

• 1935Chemistry

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis”.

• 1965Medicine

Born in Lille, France. Recognized “for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium”.

• 1926Physics

Born in Toulouse, France. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions”.

• 1980Medicine

Born in Troyes, France. Recognized “for his analysis of market power and regulation”.

• 2014Economic Sciences

Born in Nice, France. Recognized “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”.

• 2008Literature

Born in Rosheim, France. Recognized “for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity”.

• 1987Chemistry

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age”.

• 1964Literature

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”.

• 2016Chemistry

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for having devoted his life to the fight against war through the promotion of social justice and brotherhood among men and nations”.

• 1951Peace

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for his longstanding contribution to the cause of peace and justice and his prominent role in the establishment of the League of Nations”.

• 1920Peace

Born in Lyon, France. Recognized “for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics”.

• 1970Physics

Born in Autun, France. Recognized “for his decisive influence upon the conduct and outcome of the Hague and Geneva Conferences”.

• 1907Peace

Born in Chabris, France. Recognized “for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus”.

• 2008Medicine

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates”.

• 1970Chemistry

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources”.

• 1988Economic Sciences

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”.

• 2025Physics

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”.

• 2023Chemistry

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”.

• 2014Literature

Born in La Flèche, France. Recognized “for their prominent position in the international movement for peace and arbitration”.

• 1909Peace

Born in Carcassonne, France. Recognized “for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been greatly advanced in recent years”.

• 1912Chemistry

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

• 2025Economic Sciences

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel”.

• 1903Physics

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers”.

• 1991Physics

Born in Dieppe, France. Recognized “for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons”.

• 1929Physics

Born in Bayonne, France. Recognized “for his struggle to ensure the rights of man as stipulated in the UN Declaration”.

• 1968Peace

Born in Dijon, France. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain”.

• 1977Medicine

Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Recognized “for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel-cycle <I>Les Thibault</I>”.

• 1937Literature

Born in Clamecy, France. Recognized “as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings”.

• 1915Literature

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “for his efforts to secure and develop human rights throughout the world”.

• 1974Peace

Born in Paris, France. Recognized “in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect”.

• 1901Literature

Born in Cherbourg, France. Recognized “for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry”.

• 1912Chemistry