Nobel Prize winners
from Japan.

Born in Mukawa, Japan. Recognized “for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis”.

• 2010Chemistry

Born in Suita, Japan. Recognized “for the development of lithium-ion batteries”.

• 2019Chemistry

Born in Tabuse, Japan. Recognized “for his contribution to stabilize conditions in the Pacific rim area and for signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”.

• 1974Peace

Born in Tokyo, Japan. Recognized “for the discovery and development of conductive polymers”.

• 2000Chemistry

Born in Tokyo, Japan. Recognized “for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces”.

• 1949Physics

Born in Hamamatsu, Japan. Recognized “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”.

• 2014Physics

Born in Chiran, Japan. Recognized “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”.

• 2014Physics

Born in Nagasaki, Japan. Recognized “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”.

• 2017Literature

Born in Nara, Japan. Recognized “for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions”.

• 1981Chemistry

Born in Uchiko, Japan. Recognized “who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today”.

• 1994Literature

Born in Toyama City, Japan. Recognized “for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules”.

• 2002Chemistry

Born in Osaka, Japan. Recognized “for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively”.

• 1973Physics

Born in Nagoya, Japan. Recognized “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”.

• 2008Physics

Born in Toyohashi, Japan. Recognized “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos”.

• 2002Physics

Organization headquartered in Japan. Recognized “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”.

• 2024Peace

Born in Kyoto, Japan. Recognized “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”.

• 2008Chemistry

Born in Kobe, Japan. Recognized “for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions”.

• 2001Chemistry

Born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites”.

• 2015Medicine

Born in Nagahama, Shiga, Japan. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”.

• 2025Medicine

Born in Osaka, Japan. Recognized “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”.

• 2012Medicine

Born in Ikata, Japan. Recognized “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”.

• 2014Physics

Born in Kyoto, Japan. Recognized “for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles”.

• 1965Physics

Born in Kyoto, Japan. Recognized “for the development of metal–organic frameworks”.

• 2025Chemistry

Born in Nagoya, Japan. Recognized “for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity”.

• 1987Medicine

Born in Shingu, Ehime, Japan. Recognized “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”.

• 2021Physics

Born in Higashimatsuyama, Japan. Recognized “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”.

• 2015Physics

Born in Kyoto, Japan. Recognized “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”.

• 2018Medicine

Born in Nagoya, Japan. Recognized “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”.

• 2008Physics

Born in Osaka, Japan. Recognized “for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind”.

• 1968Literature

Born in Tokyo, Japan. Recognized “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”.

• 2008Physics

Born in Fukuoka, Japan. Recognized “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy”.

• 2016Medicine