Nobel Prize winners
from Poland.

Born in Strelno, Poland. Recognized “for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid”.

• 1907Physics

Born in Hansdorf, Poland. Recognized “for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths”.

• 1901Medicine

Born in Goldschmieden, near Breslau, Poland. Recognized “in recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods”.

• 1931Chemistry

Born in Breslau, Poland. Recognized “for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements”.

• 1918Chemistry

Born in Dabrovica, Poland. Recognized “for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber”.

• 1992Physics

Born in Lagow, Poland. Recognized “for the discovery of the antibacterial effects of prontosil”.

• 1939Medicine

Born in Bad Salzbrunn, Poland. Recognized “primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art”.

• 1912Literature

Born in Waltersdorf, Poland. Recognized “for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell”.

• 1999Medicine

Born in Danzig, Poland. Recognized “whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history”.

• 1999Literature

Born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland. Recognized “because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer”.

• 1905Literature

Born in Leoncin, Poland. Recognized “for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life”.

• 1978Literature

Born in Rymanow, Poland. Recognized “for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei”.

• 1944Physics

Born in Warsaw, Poland. Recognized “for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms”.

• 1995Peace

Born in Schroda, Poland. Recognized “for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect”.

• 1985Physics

Born in Neisse, Poland. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism”.

• 1964Medicine

Born in Königshütte, Poland. Recognized “for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis”.

• 1950Chemistry

Born in Popowo, Poland. Recognized “for non-violent struggle for free trade unions and human rights in Poland”.

• 1983Peace

Born in Kattowitz, Poland. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure”.

• 1963Physics

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

• 1903Physics
• 1911Chemistry

Born in Breslau, Poland. Recognized “for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction”.

• 1954Physics

Born in Sulechów, Poland. Recognized “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”.

• 2018Literature

Born in Sorau, Poland. Recognized “for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton”.

• 1943Physics

Born in Strehlen, Poland. Recognized “in recognition of their work on immunity”.

• 1908Medicine

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

• 1994Economic Sciences

Born in Wloclawek, Poland. Recognized “for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects”.

• 1950Medicine

Born in Briesen, Poland. Recognized “in recognition of his work in thermochemistry”.

• 1920Chemistry

Born in Bnin, Poland. Recognized “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality”.

• 1996Literature

Born in Kobiele Wielkie, Poland. Recognized “for his great national epic, <I>The Peasants</I>”.

• 1924Literature