Nobel Prize winners
from United States.

Born in Montclair, NJ, USA. Recognized “for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information”.

• 2001Economic Sciences

Born in Washington, D.C., USA. Recognized “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”.

• 2011Physics

Born in Sioux City, IA, USA. Recognized “for the discovery and development of conductive polymers”.

• 2000Chemistry

Born in Washington, D.C., USA. 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

Born in Owosso, MI, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses”.

• 1969Medicine

Born in New Haven, CT, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells”.

• 1994Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”.

• 2012Economic Sciences

Organization headquartered in USA. Recognized “for their pioneering work in the international peace movement and compassionate effort to relieve human suffering, thereby promoting the fraternity between nations”.

• 1947Peace

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”.

• 2020Physics

Born in Stanford, CA, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA”.

• 2006Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”.

• 2018Physics

Born in Wooster, OH, USA. Recognized “for his discovery of the effect named after him”.

• 1927Physics

Born in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid”.

• 1959Medicine

Born in Mount Vernon, NY, USA. Recognized “for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy”.

• 1981Physics

Born in Honolulu, HI, USA. Recognized “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.

• 2009Peace

Born in Hartford, CT, USA. Recognized “for her discovery of mobile genetic elements”.

• 1983Medicine

Born in Omaha, NE, USA. Recognized “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”.

• 2017Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases”.

• 1976Medicine

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection”.

• 1975Physics

Born in Augusta, GA, USA. Recognized “for research on banks and financial crises”.

• 2022Economic Sciences

Born in Duluth, MN, USA. Recognized “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.

• 2016Literature

Born in Little Falls, MN, USA. Recognized “for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors”.

• 2012Chemistry

Born in Missoula, MT, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”.

• 2011Physics

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity”.

• 2011Medicine

Born in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recognized “for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind”.

• 1976Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for his discovery of the positron”.

• 1936Physics

Born in Corvallis, OR, USA. Recognized “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”.

• 2001Physics

Born in San Diego, CA, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”.

• 2009Medicine

Born in Boston, MA, USA. Recognized “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”.

• 2022Chemistry

Born in Marietta, OH, USA. Recognized “for his crucial role in bringing about the Dawes Plan”.

• 1925Peace

Born in Greenville, SC, USA. Recognized “for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle”.

• 1964Physics

Born in Sacramento, CA, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus”.

• 2020Medicine

Born in Monessen, PA, USA. Recognized “for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation”.

• 1972Chemistry

Born in Washington, D.C., USA. Recognized “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy”.

• 2011Economic Sciences

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”.

• 2023Economic Sciences

Born in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Recognized “for the development of the neutron diffraction technique”.

• 1994Physics

Born in Bloomington, IL, USA. Recognized “for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”.

• 1937Physics

Born in Olympus, TN, USA. Recognized “for his indefatigable work for international understanding and his pivotal role in establishing the United Nations”.

• 1945Peace

Born in New Haven, CT, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA”.

• 2006Medicine

Born in Yonkers, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases”.

• 1976Medicine

Born in Enterprise, OR, USA. Recognized “for their analysis of markets with search frictions”.

• 2010Economic Sciences

Born in Raleigh, NC, USA. Recognized “for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice”.

• 2000Economic Sciences

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

• 1978Medicine

Born in Seattle, WA, USA. Recognized “for computational protein design”.

• 2024Chemistry

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell”.

• 1975Medicine

Born in Washington, D.C., USA. Recognized “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction”.

• 2004Physics

Born in Milwaukee, WI, USA. Recognized “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”.

• 2012Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”.

• 2021Medicine

Born in Rye, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3”.

• 1996Physics

Born in Orange, NJ, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system”.

• 1956Medicine

Born in Cleveland, OH, USA. Recognized “for the invention of the bubble chamber”.

• 1960Physics

Born in Chester, VT, USA. Recognized “for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity”.

• 1987Chemistry

Born in Aberdeen, WA, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3”.

• 1996Physics

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for research on banks and financial crises”.

• 2022Economic Sciences

Born in Cambridge, MA, USA. Recognized “for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change”.

• 1993Economic Sciences

Born in Lexington, MA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”.

• 2023Medicine

Born in San José, CA, USA. Recognized “for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes”.

• 1986Chemistry

Born in Mart, TX, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease”.

• 1990Medicine

Born in Burlingame, KS, USA. Recognized “for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones”.

• 1971Medicine

Born in Evanston, IL, USA. Recognized “for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy”.

• 2006Economic Sciences

Born in Hume, IL, USA. Recognized “for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K”.

• 1943Medicine

Born in Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development”.

• 1995Medicine

Born in Glens Falls, NY, USA. Recognized “for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles”.

• 2004Economic Sciences

Born in South Norwalk, CT, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects”.

• 1950Medicine

Born in Boulder, CO, USA. Recognized “for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events”.

• 1958Medicine

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

• 1952Physics

Born in Lansing, IA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism”.

• 1992Medicine

Born in Redondo Beach, CA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements”.

• 1951Chemistry

Born in Methuen, MA, USA. Recognized “for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis”.

• 1990Chemistry

Born in Clinton, NY, USA. Recognized “for bringing about better understanding between the countries of North and South America and initiating important arbitration agreements between the United States and other countries”.

• 1912Peace

Born in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Recognized “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons”.

• 2009Economic Sciences

Born in Jamaica Plain, MA, USA. Recognized “for her lifelong work for the cause of peace”.

• 1946Peace

Born in Palo Alto, CA, USA. Recognized “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”.

• 2001Physics

Born in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Recognized “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.

• 2014Chemistry

Born in South Bend, IN, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development”.

• 1995Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”.

• 2007Economic Sciences

Born in Oak Park, IL, USA. Recognized “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in <I>The Old Man and the Sea,</I> and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”.

• 1954Literature

Born in Canton, SD, USA. Recognized “for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements”.

• 1939Physics

Born in Boston, MA, USA. Recognized “for their empirical analysis of asset prices”.

• 2013Economic Sciences

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy”.

• 1936Literature

Born in Delaware, OH, USA. Recognized “for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone”.

• 1995Chemistry

Born in Whiting, IN, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system”.

• 1998Medicine

Born in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Recognized “for the directed evolution of enzymes”.

• 2018Chemistry

Born in Potsdam, NY, USA. Recognized “for his crucial role in bringing about the Briand-Kellogg Pact”.

• 1929Peace

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction”.

• 2004Physics

Born in Auburn, AL, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue”.

• 1954Medicine

Born in Elmhurst, IL, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”.

• 2025Medicine

Born in Paterson, NJ, USA. Recognized “for the detection of the neutrino”.

• 1995Physics

Born in Berkeley, CA, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”.

• 2024Medicine

Born in Pottsville, PA, USA. Recognized “for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour”.

• 1992Economic Sciences

Born in New Haven, CT, USA. Recognized “for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information”.

• 2001Economic Sciences

Born in Uniontown, PA, USA. Recognized “for proposing and supervising the plan for the economic recovery of Europe”.

• 1953Peace

Born in Bradford, MA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions”.

• 1980Medicine

Born in White Plains, NY, USA. Recognized “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor”.

• 2009Physics

Born in Yukon, FL, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”.

• 2006Physics

Born in Hoquiam, WA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment”.

• 1988Medicine

Born in Ashland, NH, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia”.

• 1934Medicine

Born in Renton, WA, USA. Recognized “for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation”.

• 1982Economic Sciences

Born in Norwalk, CT, USA. Recognized “for the phage display of peptides and antibodies”.

• 2018Chemistry

Born in Boston, MA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia”.

• 1934Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye”.

• 1967Medicine

Born in Wahoo, NE, USA. Recognized “for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events”.

• 1958Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies”.

• 1972Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment”.

• 1988Medicine

Born in Ishpeming, MI, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements”.

• 1951Chemistry

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability”.

• 2019Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction”.

• 2004Physics

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death”.

• 2002Medicine

Born in Bloomsburg, PA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye”.

• 1967Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics”.

• 1978Medicine

Born in Walkerton, IN, USA. Recognized “for his discovery of heavy hydrogen”.

• 1934Chemistry

Born in Oceanside, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”.

• 1989Medicine

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics”.

• 1990Economic Sciences

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus”.

• 2020Medicine

Born in Boston, MA, USA. Recognized “for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics”.

• 1990Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures”.

• 1985Chemistry

Born in Milwaukee, WI, USA. Recognized “for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations”.

• 1978Economic Sciences

Born in Platteville, WI, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres”.

• 1944Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation”.

• 1946Medicine

Born in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell”.

• 1975Medicine

Born in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recognized “for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry”.

• 1932Chemistry

Born in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation”.

• 2004Chemistry

Born in York, PA, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”.

• 1989Medicine

Born in Jefferson City, MO, USA. Recognized “for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit”.

• 2000Physics

Born in Canton, MA, USA. Recognized “for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized”.

• 1946Chemistry

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

• 1962Medicine

Born in Haverhill, MA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”.

• 2013Medicine

Born in Plains, GA, USA. Recognized “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development”.

• 2002Peace

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples”.

• 2000Economic Sciences

Born in Murfreesboro, TN, USA. Recognized “for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making”.

• 1986Economic Sciences

Born in Alice, TX, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”.

• 2018Medicine

Born in Champaign, IL, USA. Recognized “for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices”.

• 1981Economic Sciences

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons”.

• 1980Physics

Born in Cedarville, IL, USA. Recognized “for their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind”.

• 1931Peace

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm”.

• 2017Medicine

Born in Washington, D.C., USA. Recognized “for the development of a method for genome editing”.

• 2020Chemistry

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics”.

• 1990Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures”.

• 1985Chemistry

Born in Rutland, VT, USA. Recognized “for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines”.

• 1997Peace

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules”.

• 2002Chemistry

Born in Madison, WI, USA. Recognized “for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect”.

• 1956Physics
• 1972Physics

Born in Roanoke, VA, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”.

• 2006Physics

Born in Pasadena, CA, USA. Recognized “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.

• 2022Physics

Born in Bluefield, WV, USA. Recognized “for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games”.

• 1994Economic Sciences

Born in West Hartford, CT, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue”.

• 1954Medicine

Born in Middletown, CT, USA. Recognized “for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems”.

• 1977Physics

Born in Yonkers, NY, USA. Recognized “for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form”.

• 1946Chemistry

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

• 2024Physics

Born in Little Rock, AR, USA. Recognized “for protein structure prediction”.

• 2024Chemistry

Born in Denver, CO, USA. Recognized “for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique”.

• 2005Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain”.

• 2014Medicine

Born in Livingston Manor, NY, USA. Recognized “for his contribution to the creation of a peace-promoting religious brotherhood across national boundaries”.

• 1946Peace

Born in Oak Park, IL, USA. Recognized “for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory”.

• 1972Physics

Born in Salinas, CA, USA. Recognized “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception”.

• 1962Literature

Born in Milford, MA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease”.

• 1990Medicine

Born in Gary, IN, USA. Recognized “for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information”.

• 2001Economic Sciences

Born in San Francisco, CA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres”.

• 1944Medicine

Born in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation”.

• 1993Physics

Born in Sumter, SC, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism”.

• 1985Medicine

Born in Columbus, OH, USA. Recognized “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”.

• 2021Economic Sciences

Born in Montclair, NJ, USA. Recognized “for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria”.

• 1958Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles”.

• 1965Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation”.

• 1970Medicine

Born in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Recognized “for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions”.

• 2001Chemistry
• 2022Chemistry

Born in Lenoir, NC, USA. Recognized “for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method”.

• 1993Chemistry

Born in Waltham, MA, USA. Recognized “for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions”.

• 1982Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory”.

• 1972Economic Sciences

Born in Logan, UT, USA. Recognized “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”.

• 2017Physics

Born in Urbana, IL, USA. Recognized “for their empirical analysis of asset prices”.

• 2013Economic Sciences

Born in Omaha, NE, USA. Recognized “for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies”.

• 1980Economic Sciences

Born in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle”.

• 2001Medicine

Born in Council, ID, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection”.

• 1975Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”.

• 1988Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory”.

• 1972Physics

Born in Seattle, WA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system”.

• 2004Medicine

Born in Portland, OR, USA. Recognized “for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances”.

• 1954Chemistry
• 1962Peace

Born in Cambridge, MA, USA. Recognized “for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”.

• 2012Economic Sciences

Born in Cleveland, OH, USA. Recognized “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”.

• 2023Chemistry

Born in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system”.

• 1998Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.

• 2020Literature

Born in San Francisco, CA, USA. Recognized “for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis”.

• 1968Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis”.

• 1968Medicine

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”.

• 2008Chemistry

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of the tau lepton”.

• 1995Physics

Born in Atlanta, GA, USA. Recognized “for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population”.

• 1964Peace

Born in Baltimore, MD, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells”.

• 1994Medicine

Born in Portland, OR, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”.

• 2025Medicine

Born in St. Paul, MN, USA. Recognized “for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants”.

• 1961Chemistry

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”.

• 1988Physics

Born in Boston, MA, USA. Recognized “for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics”.

• 1990Economic Sciences

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”.

• 2019Economic Sciences

Born in Kansas City, MO, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm”.

• 2017Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism”.

• 1985Medicine

Born in Miami, FL, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm”.

• 2017Medicine

Born in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recognized “for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy”.

• 1976Economic Sciences

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions”.

• 1969Physics

Born in Elizabeth, NJ, USA. Recognized “for their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind”.

• 1931Peace

Born in Cresco, IA, USA. Recognized “for having given a well-founded hope - the green revolution”.

• 1970Peace

Born in Washington, D.C., USA. Recognized “for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks”.

• 1989Physics

Born in Superior, WI, USA. Recognized “for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm”.

• 2009Economic Sciences

Born in San Francisco, CA, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of the antiproton”.

• 1959Physics

Born in Gary, IN, USA. Recognized “for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science”.

• 1970Economic Sciences

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA”.

• 1980Chemistry

Born in Sidney, OH, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging”.

• 2003Medicine

Born in Provo, UT, USA. Recognized “for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)”.

• 1997Chemistry

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system”.

• 2000Medicine

Born in Sterling, IL, USA. Recognized “for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of the macromolecules”.

• 1974Chemistry

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity”.

• 2008Economic Sciences

Born in Denver, CO, USA. Recognized “for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis”.

• 2018Economic Sciences

Born in Raton, NM, USA. Recognized “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”.

• 2015Chemistry

Born in Detroit, MI, USA. Recognized “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”.

• 2020Economic Sciences

Born in Hillsboro, WV, USA. Recognized “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces”.

• 1938Literature

Born in Cambridge, MA, USA. Recognized “for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics”.

• 1946Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their analysis of markets with search frictions”.

• 2010Economic Sciences

Born in Northfield, MN, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of water channels”.

• 2003Chemistry

Born in Baltimore, MD, USA. Recognized “for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses”.

• 1966Medicine

Born in Gainesville, FL, USA. Recognized “for research on banks and financial crises”.

• 2022Economic Sciences

Born in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects”.

• 1950Medicine

Born in Indianapolis, IN, USA. Recognized “for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems”.

• 1977Physics

Born in Falmouth, KY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of split genes”.

• 1993Medicine

Born in Detroit, MI, USA. Recognized “for his work as mediator in Palestine in 1948-1949”.

• 1950Peace

Born in St. Paul, MN, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”.

• 2013Medicine

Born in Washington, D.C., USA. Recognized “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos”.

• 2002Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system”.

• 2004Medicine

Born in Akron, OH, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of fullerenes”.

• 1996Chemistry

Born in Springfield, MA, USA. Recognized “for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis”.

• 2010Chemistry

Born in East Orange, NJ, USA. Recognized “for his contributions to behavioural economics”.

• 2017Economic Sciences

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles”.

• 1965Physics

Born in Berne, IN, USA. Recognized “for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”.

• 2005Chemistry

Born in Morrison, IL, USA. Recognized “for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect”.

• 1923Physics

Born in Visalia, CA, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations”.

• 1998Physics

Born in Geneva, NE, USA. Recognized “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”.

• 2020Economic Sciences

Born in Fort Worth, TX, USA. Recognized “for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix”.

• 1984Chemistry

Born in Boston, MA, USA. Recognized “for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis”.

• 1965Chemistry

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for a new method to determine the value of derivatives”.

• 1997Economic Sciences

Born in Washington, D.C., USA. Recognized “for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3”.

• 1996Physics

Born in Yakima, WA, USA. Recognized “for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy”.

• 1995Economic Sciences

Born in Alice, TX, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of fullerenes”.

• 1996Chemistry

Born in Syracuse, NY, USA. Recognized “for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)”.

• 2003Economic Sciences

Born in Charleston, SC, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system”.

• 1998Medicine

Born in Possum Trot, KY, USA. Recognized “for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”.

• 2005Chemistry

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons”.

• 1961Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors”.

• 2012Chemistry

Born in Detroit, MI, USA. Recognized “for their empirical analysis of asset prices”.

• 2013Economic Sciences

Born in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recognized “for his contributions to the theory of economic growth”.

• 1987Economic Sciences

Born in Newburyport, MA, USA. Recognized “for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method”.

• 1966Chemistry

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change”.

• 1993Economic Sciences

Born in Urbana, IL, USA. Recognized “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis”.

• 1968Medicine

Born in Houston, TX, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation”.

• 1978Physics

Born in Burlington, MA, USA. Recognized “for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels”.

• 2003Chemistry

Born in Boston, MA, USA. Recognized “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”.

• 2007Economic Sciences

Born in St. Louis, MO, USA. Recognized “for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription”.

• 2006Chemistry

Born in Hartford, CT, USA. Recognized “for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres”.

• 1981Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”.

• 2008Chemistry

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones”.

• 1977Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence”.

• 2005Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation”.

• 1993Physics

Born in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Recognized “for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind”.

• 1976Physics

Born in Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”.

• 2011Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current”.

• 1979Physics

Born in Sauk Centre, MN, USA. Recognized “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters”.

• 1930Literature

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule”.

• 1972Chemistry

Born in Des Moines, IA, USA. Recognized “for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection”.

• 1997Medicine

Born in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of growth factors”.

• 1986Medicine

Born in St. Louis, MO, USA. Recognized “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light”.

• 1997Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current”.

• 1979Physics

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for his role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the world's great powers, Japan and Russia”.

• 1906Peace

Born in Arlington, SD, USA. Recognized “for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries”.

• 1979Economic Sciences

Born in Germantown, PA, USA. Recognized “in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements”.

• 1914Chemistry

Born in Milwaukee, WI, USA. Recognized “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”.

• 2009Chemistry

Born in Oakland, CA, USA. Recognized “for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis”.

• 2005Economic Sciences

Born in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue”.

• 1954Medicine

Born in Lexington, KY, USA. Recognized “for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity”.

• 1933Medicine

Born in Pasadena, CA, USA. Recognized “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy”.

• 2011Economic Sciences

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA”.

• 1989Chemistry

Born in St. Louis, MO, USA. Recognized “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”.

• 1948Literature

Born in Staunton, VA, USA. Recognized “for his role as founder of the League of Nations”.

• 1919Peace

Born in Lorain, OH, USA. Recognized “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”.

• 1993Literature

Organization headquartered in USA. Recognized “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world”.

• 2001Peace

Organization headquartered in USA. Recognized “for its effort to enhance solidarity between nations and reduce the difference between rich and poor states”.

• 1965Peace

Born in Merriman, NE, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons”.

• 1980Physics

Born in Wichita, KS, USA. Recognized “for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms”.

• 2002Economic Sciences

Born in Hanover, NH, USA. Recognized “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”.

• 2024Medicine

Born in Chicago, IL, USA. Recognized “for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone”.

• 1955Chemistry

Born in Boston, MA, USA. Recognized “for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids”.

• 1980Chemistry

Born in Ridgeville, IN, USA. Recognized “for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form”.

• 1946Chemistry

Born in Grand Valley, CO, USA. Recognized “for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science”.

• 1960Chemistry

Born in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Recognized “for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe”.

• 1983Physics

Born in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Recognized “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis”.

• 2018Economic Sciences

Born in Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA. Recognized “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light”.

• 1997Physics

Born in Pleasanton, CA, USA. Recognized “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.

• 2014Chemistry

Born in Boston, MA, USA. Recognized “for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics”.

• 1990Economic Sciences

Born in New Albany, MS, USA. Recognized “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel”.

• 1949Literature

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability”.

• 2019Medicine

Born in New York, NY, USA. Recognized “for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule”.

• 1972Chemistry

Born in Cleveland, OH, USA. Recognized “for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding”.

• 1976Chemistry

Born in Stoughton, WI, USA. Recognized “for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia”.

• 1934Medicine

Born in Taunton, MA, USA. Recognized “for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions”.

• 2001Chemistry

Born in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Recognized “for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum”.

• 1955Physics