Nobel Prize winners
from Switzerland.

Born in Liestal, Switzerland. Recognized “in special appreciation of his epic, <I>Olympian Spring</I>”.

• 1919Literature

Born in Tramelan, Switzerland. Recognized “for his eminently practical administration of the Inter-Parliamentary Union”.

• 1902Peace

Born in Fleurier, Switzerland. Recognized “in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys”.

• 1920Physics

Born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Recognized “for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles”.

• 1957Medicine

Born in Geneva, Switzerland. Recognized “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”.

• 2019Physics

Organization headquartered in Switzerland. Recognized “in recognition of the organisation's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents”.

• 1999Peace

Born in Geneva, Switzerland. Recognized “for his untiring and skilful directorship of the Bern Peace Bureau”.

• 1902Peace

Born in Bern, Switzerland. Recognized “for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland”.

• 1909Medicine

Born in Zurich, Switzerland. Recognized “for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith”.

• 1952Physics

Born in Buchs, Switzerland. Recognized “for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope”.

• 1986Physics

Organization headquartered in Switzerland. Recognized “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”.

• 2007Peace

Organization headquartered in Switzerland. Recognized “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”.

• 2017Peace

Organization headquartered in Switzerland. Recognized “for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines”.

• 1997Peace

Organization headquartered in Switzerland. Recognized “for the efforts to take care of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war and their families”.

• 1917Peace
• 1944Peace
• 1963Peace

Organization headquartered in Switzerland. Recognized “for creating international legislation insuring certain norms for working conditions in every country”.

• 1969Peace

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

• 2017Chemistry

Born in Geneva, Switzerland. Recognized “for his humanitarian efforts to help wounded soldiers and create international understanding”.

• 1901Peace

Born in Basel, Switzerland. Recognized “for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials”.

• 1987Physics

Born in Aarberg, Switzerland. Recognized “for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution”.

• 2002Chemistry

Organization headquartered in Switzerland. Recognized “for promoting the principles of the Geneva Convention and cooperation with the UN”.

• 1963Peace

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland. Recognized “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”.

• 2019Physics

Organization headquartered in Switzerland. Recognized “for its efforts to heal the wounds of war by providing help and protection to refugees all over the world”.

• 1954Peace
• 1981Peace

Born in Olten, Switzerland. Recognized “for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods”.

• 1948Medicine

Organization headquartered in Switzerland. Recognized “for acting as a link between the peace societies of the various countries, and helping them to organize the world rallies of the international peace movement”.

• 1910Peace

Born in Winterthur, Switzerland. Recognized “for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy”.

• 1991Chemistry

Born in Basel, Switzerland. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence”.

• 1996Medicine

Born in Frauenfeld, Switzerland. Recognized “for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs”.

• 1949Medicine

Born in Gränichen, Switzerland. Recognized “for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics”.

• 1978Medicine