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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

232 laureates awarded across 125 years of discovery (19012025), honoring outstanding contributions in the field of physiology or medicine.

Total Laureates
232
First Awarded
1901
Latest Year
2025
Top Country
United States· 114

Distribution by Decade

1900s – 2020s
11
6
11
14
14
20
25
25
23
20
26
24
13
1900s1920s1940s1960s1980s2000s2020s

Recent Laureates

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2025

Mary E. Brunkow & Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi

for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance

2024
United States / United States

Victor Ambros & Gary Ruvkun

for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation

2023
United States / United States

Katalin Karikó & Drew Weissman

for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

Complete Directory

YearLaureate
2025
Mary E. Brunkow
2025
Fred Ramsdell United States
2025
Shimon Sakaguchi Japan
2024
Victor Ambros United States
2024
Gary Ruvkun United States
2023
Katalin Karikó United States
2023
Drew Weissman United States
2022
Svante Pääbo Sweden
2021
David Julius United States
2021
Ardem Patapoutian United States
2020
Harvey J. Alter United States
2020
Michael Houghton United Kingdom
2020
Charles M. Rice United States
2019
William G. Kaelin Jr United States
2019
Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe United Kingdom
2019
Gregg L. Semenza United States
2018
James P. Allison United States
2018
Tasuku Honjo Japan
2017
Jeffrey C. Hall United States
2017
Michael Rosbash United States
2017
Michael W. Young United States
2016
Yoshinori Ohsumi Japan
2015
William C. Campbell United States
2015
Satoshi Ōmura Japan
2015
Tu Youyou China
2014
John O'Keefe United Kingdom
2014
May-Britt Moser Norway
2014
Edvard I. Moser Norway
2013
James E. Rothman United States
2013
Randy W. Schekman United States
2013
Thomas C. Südhof United States
2012
Sir John B. Gurdon United Kingdom
2012
Shinya Yamanaka Japan
2011
Bruce A. Beutler United States
2011
Jules A. Hoffmann France
2011
Ralph Steinman United States
2010
Robert G. Edwards United Kingdom
2009
Elizabeth Blackburn United States
2009
Carol W. Greider United States
2009
Jack Szostak United States
2008
Harald zur Hausen Germany
2008
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi France
2008
Luc Montagnier France
2007
Mario R. Capecchi United States
2007
Sir Martin J. Evans United Kingdom
2007
Oliver Smithies United States
2006
Andrew Z. Fire United States
2006
Craig C. Mello United States
2005
Barry Marshall Australia
2005
Robin Warren Australia
2004
Richard Axel United States
2004
Linda B. Buck United States
2003
Paul C. Lauterbur United States
2003
Sir Peter Mansfield United Kingdom
2002
Sydney Brenner United Kingdom
2002
H. Robert Horvitz United States
2002
John E. Sulston United Kingdom
2001
Leland Hartwell United States
2001
Tim Hunt United Kingdom
2001
Sir Paul Nurse United Kingdom
2000
Arvid Carlsson Sweden
2000
Paul Greengard United States
2000
Eric Kandel United States
1999
Günter Blobel Germany
1998
Robert F. Furchgott United States
1998
Louis J. Ignarro United States
1998
Ferid Murad United States
1997
Stanley B. Prusiner United States
1996
Peter C. Doherty Australia
1996
Rolf M. Zinkernagel Switzerland
1995
Edward B. Lewis United States
1995
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Germany
1995
Eric F. Wieschaus United States
1994
Alfred G. Gilman United States
1994
Martin Rodbell United States
1993
Richard J. Roberts United Kingdom
1993
Phillip A. Sharp United States
1992
Edmond H. Fischer United States
1992
Edwin G. Krebs United States
1991
Erwin Neher Germany
1991
Bert Sakmann Germany
1990
Joseph E. Murray United States
1990
E. Donnall Thomas United States
1989
J. Michael Bishop United States
1989
Harold E. Varmus United States
1988
Sir James W. Black United Kingdom
1988
Gertrude B. Elion United States
1988
George H. Hitchings United States
1987
Susumu Tonegawa Japan
1986
Stanley Cohen United States
1986
Rita Levi-Montalcini United States
1985
Michael S. Brown United States
1985
Joseph L. Goldstein United States
1984
Niels Kaj Jerne Denmark
1984
Georges J.F. Köhler Germany
1984
César Milstein United Kingdom
1983
Barbara McClintock United States
1982
Sune K. Bergström Sweden
1982
Bengt I. Samuelsson Sweden
1982
John R. Vane United Kingdom
1981
Roger W. Sperry United States
1981
David H. Hubel United States
1981
Torsten N. Wiesel United States
1980
Baruj Benacerraf United States
1980
Jean Dausset France
1980
George D. Snell United States
1979
Allan McLeod Cormack United States
1979
Godfrey N. Hounsfield United Kingdom
1978
Werner Arber Switzerland
1978
Daniel Nathans United States
1978
Hamilton O. Smith United States
1977
Roger Guillemin United States
1977
Andrew V. Schally Poland
1977
Rosalyn Yalow United States
1976
Baruch S. Blumberg United States
1976
D. Carleton Gajdusek United States
1975
David Baltimore United States
1975
Renato Dulbecco United States
1975
Howard M. Temin United States
1974
Albert Claude United States
1974
Christian de Duve Belgium
1974
George Emil Palade United States
1973
Karl von Frisch Austria
1973
Konrad Lorenz Austria
1973
Niko Tinbergen United Kingdom
1972
Gerald M. Edelman United States
1972
Rodney R. Porter United Kingdom
1971
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. United States
1970
Sir Bernard Katz United Kingdom
1970
Ulf von Euler Sweden
1970
Julius Axelrod Poland
1969
Max Delbrück United States
1969
Alfred D. Hershey United States
1969
Salvador E. Luria United States
1968
Robert W. Holley United States
1968
Har Gobind Khorana India
1968
Marshall W. Nirenberg United States
1967
Ragnar Granit Sweden
1967
Keffer Hartline United States
1967
George Wald United States
1966
Peyton Rous United States
1966
Charles B. Huggins United States
1965
François Jacob France
1965
André Lwoff France
1965
Jacques Monod France
1964
Konrad Bloch Germany
1964
Feodor Lynen Germany
1963
John Eccles Australia
1963
Alan Hodgkin United Kingdom
1963
Andrew Huxley United Kingdom
1962
Francis Crick United Kingdom
1962
James Watson United States
1962
Maurice Wilkins United Kingdom
1961
Georg von Békésy United States
1960
Frank Macfarlane Burnet Australia
1960
Peter Medawar United Kingdom
1959
Severo Ochoa United States
1959
Arthur Kornberg United States
1958
George Beadle United States
1958
Edward Tatum United States
1958
Joshua Lederberg United States
1957
Daniel Bovet Italy
1956
André F. Cournand United States
1956
Werner Forssmann Germany
1956
Dickinson W. Richards United States
1955
Hugo Theorell Sweden
1954
John F. Enders United States
1954
Thomas H. Weller United States
1954
Frederick C. Robbins United States
1953
Hans Krebs United Kingdom
1953
Fritz Lipmann United States
1952
Selman A. Waksman Russia
1951
Max Theiler United States
1950
Edward C. Kendall United States
1950
Tadeusz Reichstein Switzerland
1950
Philip S. Hench United States
1949
Walter Hess Switzerland
1949
António Egas Moniz Portugal
1948
Paul Müller Switzerland
1947
Carl Cori Austria
1947
Gerty Cori Austria
1947
Bernardo Houssay Argentina
1946
Hermann Joseph Muller United States
1945
Alexander Fleming United Kingdom
1945
Ernst B. Chain United Kingdom
1945
Howard Florey Australia
1944
Joseph Erlanger United States
1944
Herbert S. Gasser United States
1943
Henrik Dam Denmark
1943
Edward A. Doisy United States
1939
Gerhard Domagk Germany
1938
Corneille Heymans Belgium
1937
Albert Szent-Györgyi United States
1936
Sir Henry Dale United Kingdom
1936
Otto Loewi United States
1935
Hans Spemann Germany
1934
George H. Whipple United States
1934
George R. Minot United States
1934
William P. Murphy United States
1933
Thomas H. Morgan United States
1932
Sir Charles Sherrington United States
1932
Edgar Adrian United Kingdom
1931
Otto Warburg Germany
1930
Karl Landsteiner United States
1929
Christiaan Eijkman Netherlands
1929
Sir Frederick Hopkins United Kingdom
1928
Charles Nicolle France
1927
Julius Wagner-Jauregg Austria
1926
Johannes Fibiger Denmark
1924
Willem Einthoven Netherlands
1923
Frederick Banting Canada
1923
John Macleod United Kingdom
1922
Otto Meyerhof United States
1922
Archibald V. Hill United Kingdom
1920
August Krogh Denmark
1919
Jules Bordet Belgium
1914
Robert Bárány Sweden
1913
Charles Richet France
1912
Alexis Carrel France
1911
Allvar Gullstrand Sweden
1910
Albrecht Kossel Germany
1909
Emil Theodor Kocher Switzerland
1908
Ilya Mechnikov Russia
1908
Paul Ehrlich Germany
1907
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran France
1906
Camillo Golgi Italy
1906
Santiago Ramón y Cajal Spain
1905
Robert Koch Germany
1904
Ivan Pavlov Russia
1903
Niels Ryberg Finsen Denmark
1902
Ronald Ross United Kingdom
1901
Emil von Behring Germany
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