Nobel Prize winners
from United Kingdom.

Born in Banbury, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane”.

• 1963Medicine

Born in Hampstead, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane”.

• 1963Medicine

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids”.

• 2003Physics

Born in Fowey, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars”.

• 1974Physics

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their invention of partition chromatography”.

• 1952Chemistry

Born in Bristol, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle”.

• 1922Medicine

Born in Manchester, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes”.

• 1929Chemistry

Born in Cardiff, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects”.

• 1973Physics

Born in Tonbridge, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method”.

• 1950Physics

Born in Widnes, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements”.

• 1917Physics

Born in Thames Ditton, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell”.

• 1974Medicine

Born in Swansea, United Kingdom. Recognized “for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)”.

• 2003Economic Sciences

Born in Bearsden, United Kingdom. Recognized “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”.

• 2016Physics

Born in Bellshill, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”.

• 2021Chemistry

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for protein structure prediction”.

• 2024Chemistry

Born in Gravesend, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry”.

• 1969Chemistry

Born in Trelleck, United Kingdom. Recognized “in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought”.

• 1950Literature

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his tireless effort in support of the League of Nations, disarmament and peace”.

• 1937Peace

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons”.

• 1932Medicine

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”.

• 2016Physics

Born in Northampton, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material”.

• 1962Medicine

Born in Harborne, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule”.

• 1922Chemistry

Born in Rendcombe, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin”.

• 1958Chemistry
• 1980Chemistry

Born in Eastbourne, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes”.

• 1921Chemistry

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

• 2024Physics

Born in Todmorden, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds”.

• 1973Chemistry

Born in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”.

• 1937Physics

Born in Stainforth, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy”.

• 1967Chemistry

Born in Newark, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the development of computer assisted tomography”.

• 1979Medicine

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms”.

• 2005Literature

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis”.

• 1979Chemistry

Born in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. Recognized “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”.

• 2016Physics

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”.

• 2009Medicine

Born in Manchester, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the discovery of the neutron”.

• 1935Physics

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

• 1977Economic Sciences

Born in Burnham-on-Sea, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry”.

• 1998Chemistry

Born in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”.

• 2025Physics

Born in Oxford, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their studies of the structures of globular proteins”.

• 1962Chemistry

Born in Fulmer, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death”.

• 2002Medicine

Born in Halifax, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)”.

• 1997Chemistry

Born in Kingston Hill, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in <I>The Forsyte Saga</I>”.

• 1932Literature

Born in Warwick, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory”.

• 1972Economic Sciences

Born in Tardebigg, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances”.

• 1982Medicine

Born in Cheetham Hill, United Kingdom. Recognized “in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases”.

• 1906Physics

Born in Langford Grove, Maldon, Essex, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies”.

• 1904Physics

Born in Nottingham, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the development of lithium-ion batteries”.

• 2019Chemistry

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus”.

• 2020Medicine

Born in Blackpool, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies”.

• 1993Chemistry

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies”.

• 1984Medicine

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their contributions to contract theory”.

• 2016Economic Sciences

Born in Halifax, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells”.

• 2007Medicine

Born in Dewsbury, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him”.

• 1928Physics

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation”.

• 1948Physics

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature”.

• 1973Literature

Born in Bristol, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory”.

• 1933Physics

Born in Mitcham, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory”.

• 1978Chemistry

Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider”.

• 2013Physics

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his longstanding contribution to the cause of disarmament and peace”.

• 1959Peace

Born in Derby, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries of split genes”.

• 1993Medicine

Born in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their invention of partition chromatography”.

• 1952Chemistry

Born in Glusburn, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the development of metal–organic frameworks”.

• 2025Chemistry

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis”.

• 1984Economic Sciences

Born in Batley, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the development of in vitro fertilization”.

• 2010Medicine

Born in Newton-le-Willows, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies”.

• 1972Medicine

Born in Colchester, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”.

• 2020Physics

Born in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy”.

• 1967Chemistry

Born in Willesden, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy”.

• 1991Economic Sciences

Born in Sheffield, United Kingdom. Recognized “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.

• 2024Economic Sciences

Born in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his crucial role in bringing about the Locarno Treaty”.

• 1925Peace

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons”.

• 1932Medicine

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions”.

• 1956Chemistry

Born in Bradford, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer”.

• 1947Physics

Born in Eastbourne, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins”.

• 1929Medicine

Born in Leicester, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the phage display of peptides and antibodies”.

• 2018Chemistry

Born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire , United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discovery of fullerenes”.

• 1996Chemistry

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses”.

• 1936Medicine

Born in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”.

• 2016Chemistry

Born in Dippenhall, United Kingdom. Recognized “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”.

• 2012Medicine

Born in Todmorden, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles”.

• 1951Physics

Born in Stroud, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells”.

• 2007Medicine

Born in Brighton, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars”.

• 1974Physics

Born in Leeds, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems”.

• 1977Physics

Born in Holbeach, United Kingdom. Recognized “for having exposed by his pen the illusion of war and presented a convincing plea for international cooperation and peace”.

• 1933Peace

Born in Norwich, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle”.

• 2001Medicine

Born in Lancashire, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability”.

• 2019Medicine

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging”.

• 2003Medicine

Born in Rufford, near Chesterfield, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids”.

• 1947Chemistry

Born in Wigton, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays”.

• 1915Physics

Born in Woodstock, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values”.

• 1953Literature

Born in Neston, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle”.

• 2001Medicine

Born in Chorley, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C”.

• 1937Chemistry

Born in London, United Kingdom. Recognized “for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect”.

• 1956Physics

Born in Newquay, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today”.

• 1983Literature

Born in Fareham, United Kingdom. Recognized “for his longstanding and devoted effort in favour of the ideas of peace and arbitration”.

• 1903Peace