Nobel Prize winners
from Sweden.

Born in Landskrona, Sweden. Recognized “for his work on the dioptrics of the eye”.

• 1911Medicine

Born in Uppsala, Sweden. Recognized “for their work for disarmament and nuclear and weapon-free zones”.

• 1982Peace

Born in Stockholm, Sweden. Recognized “for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins”.

• 1948Chemistry

Born in Uppsala, Sweden. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system”.

• 2000Medicine

Born in Linköping, Sweden. Recognized “for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes”.

• 1955Medicine

Born in Halmstad, Sweden. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances”.

• 1982Medicine

Born in Klippan, Sweden. Recognized “for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements”.

• 1977Economic Sciences

Born in Olshammar, Sweden. Recognized “in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature”.

• 1916Literature

Born in Jönköping, Sweden. Recognized “for developing the UN into an effective and constructive international organization, capable of giving life to the principles and aims expressed in the UN Charter”.

• 1961Peace

Born in Karlbo, Sweden. Recognized “The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt”.

• 1931Literature

Born in Svartbjörnsbyn, Sweden. Recognized “for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom”.

• 1974Literature

Born in Skattungbyn, Sweden. Recognized “for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena”.

• 1974Economic Sciences

Born in Norrköping, Sweden. Recognized “for fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro-dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics”.

• 1970Physics

Born in Jämshög, Sweden. Recognized “for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos”.

• 1974Literature

Born in Lund, Sweden. Recognized “for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy”.

• 1981Physics

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

• 1921Peace

Born in Örebro, Sweden. Recognized “for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy”.

• 1924Physics

Born in Gothenburg, Sweden. Recognized “for their long time work for the cause of peace as politicians, peace society leaders, orators and authors”.

• 1908Peace

Born in Trönö, Sweden. Recognized “for promoting Christian unity and helping create 'that new attitude of mind which is necessary if peace between nations is to become reality'”.

• 1930Peace

Born in Stenstorp, Sweden. Recognized “for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys”.

• 1912Physics

Born in Växjö, Sweden. Recognized “for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind”.

• 1951Literature

Born in Mårbacka, Sweden. Recognized “in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings”.

• 1909Literature

Born in Stockholm, Sweden. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances”.

• 1982Medicine

Born in Vik, Sweden. Recognized “in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation”.

• 1903Chemistry

Born in Stockholm, Sweden. Recognized “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.

• 2022Medicine

Born in Fleräng, Sweden. Recognized “for his work on disperse systems”.

• 1926Chemistry

Born in Stockholm, Sweden. Recognized “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”.

• 2015Chemistry

Born in Stockholm, Sweden. Recognized “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”.

• 2011Literature

Born in Uppsala, Sweden. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system”.

• 1981Medicine

Born in Stockholm, Sweden. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation”.

• 1970Medicine