COUNTRY ARCHIVE · 1974—2014

Nobel Prize winners
from Romania.

4 laureates associated by birthplace or headquarters, with 4 recipient awards across 4 Nobel categories.

COMPLETE LAUREATE LIST

Winners associated with Romania

4 total

Elie Wiesel
Born in Sighet, Romania. Recognized “for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity”.
- 1986Peace
George E. Palade
Born in Iasi, Romania. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell”.
- 1974Medicine
Herta Müller
Born in Nitzkydorf, Banat, Romania. Recognized “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”.
- 2009Literature
Stefan W. Hell
Born in Arad, Romania. Recognized “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.
- 2014Chemistry

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