COUNTRY ARCHIVE · 1979—2014
Nobel Prize winners
from Pakistan.
3 laureates associated by birthplace or headquarters, with 3 recipient awards across 2 Nobel categories.
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Winners associated with Pakistan
3 total
- Abdus Salam
Born in Jhang Maghiāna, Pakistan. Recognized “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current”.
- 1979Physics
- Malala Yousafzai
Born in Mingora, Pakistan. Recognized “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”.
- 2014Peace
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Born in Lahore, Pakistan. Recognized “for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars”.
- 1983Physics
COUNTRY TRENDS
Awards by category and decade
Recipient-award counts
Prize category
- Physics
- 2
- Peace
- 1
Award decade
- 2010s
- 1
- 1980s
- 1
- 1970s
- 1