Nobel Prize winners
from Hungary.

Born in Budapest, Hungary. Recognized “for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid”.

• 1937Medicine

Born in Karcag, Hungary. Recognized “for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation”.

• 2004Chemistry

Born in Budapest, Hungary. Recognized “for his invention and development of the holographic method”.

• 1971Physics

Born in Budapest, Hungary. Recognized “for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles”.

• 1963Physics

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

• 2023Physics

Born in Budapest, Hungary. Recognized “for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea”.

• 1961Medicine

Born in Budapest, Hungary. Recognized “for his contribution to carbocation chemistry”.

• 1994Chemistry

Born in Budapest, Hungary. Recognized “for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes”.

• 1943Chemistry

Born in Budapest, Hungary. Recognized “for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history”.

• 2002Literature

Born in Budapest, Hungary. Recognized “for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games”.

• 1994Economic Sciences

Born in Szolnok, Hungary. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”.

• 2023Medicine

Born in Gyula, Hungary. Recognized “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.

• 2025Literature