Nobel Prize winners
from Scotland.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Recognized “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”.

• 2015Economic Sciences

Born in Glasgow, Scotland. Recognized “for his untiring struggle and his courageous efforts as Chairman of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference 1931-34”.

• 1934Peace

Born in Glencorse, Scotland. Recognized “for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour”.

• 1927Physics

Born in Minnigaff, Scotland. Recognized “for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information”.

• 1996Economic Sciences

Born in Kilmaurs, Scotland. Recognized “for his lifelong effort to conquer hunger and want, thereby helping to remove a major cause of military conflict and war”.

• 1949Peace

Born in Cluny, Scotland. Recognized “for the discovery of insulin”.

• 1923Medicine

Born in Glasgow, Scotland. Recognized “for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes”.

• 1957Chemistry

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Recognized “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”.

• 2017Chemistry

Born in Lochfield, Scotland. Recognized “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”.

• 1945Medicine

Born in Uddingston, Scotland. Recognized “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment”.

• 1988Medicine

Born in Glasgow, Scotland. Recognized “in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system”.

• 1904Chemistry