Nobel Prize winners
from Norway.

Born in Kvikne, Norway. Recognized “as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit”.

• 1903Literature

Born in Stavanger, Norway. Recognized “for their lifelong contributions to the cause of peace and organized internationalism”.

• 1921Peace

Born in Ålesund, Norway. Recognized “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain”.

• 2014Medicine

Born in Gjesdal, Norway. Recognized “for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles”.

• 2004Economic Sciences

Born in Kristiania, Norway. Recognized “for his leading role in the repatriation of prisoners of war, in international relief work and as the League of Nations' High Commissioner for refugees”.

• 1922Peace

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

• 1973Physics

Born in Haugesund, Norway. Recognized “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.

• 2023Literature

Born in Lom, Norway. Recognized “for his monumental work, <I>Growth of the Soil</I>”.

• 1920Literature

Born in Kristiania, Norway. Recognized “for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes”.

• 1968Chemistry

Born in Fosnavåg, Norway. Recognized “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain”.

• 2014Medicine

Born in Kristiania, Norway. Recognized “for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry”.

• 1969Chemistry

Born in Oslo, Norway. Recognized “for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes”.

• 1969Economic Sciences

Born in Skedsmo, Norway. Recognized “for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures”.

• 1989Economic Sciences