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List of Asian Nobel Laureates

Year of winning

Laureate Name

Nationality

Field

Place of residence/

work

1

1913

Rabindranath Tagore

India

Literature

 

2

1930

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

India

Physics

 

3

1949

Hideki Yukawa

Japan

Physics

 

4

1957

Chen Ning Yang

China

Physics

USA

5

1957

Tsung-Dao Lee

China

Physics

USA

6

1965

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

Japan

Physics

 

7

1973

Leo Esaki

Japan

Physics

 

8

1973

Le Duc Tho

Vietnam

Peace

 

9

1974

Eisaku Sato

Japan

Peace

 

10

1976

Samuel C.C. Ting

China

Physics

USA

11

1978

Menachem Begin

Israel

Peace

 

12

1979

Mother Teresa

India

Peace

 

13

1979

Abdus Salam

Pakistan

Physics

 

14

1981

Kenichi Fukui

Japan

Chemistry

 

15

1986

Yuan T. Lee

China/Taiwan

Chemistry

 

16

1987

Charles J. Pedersen

South Korea

Chemistry

USA

17

1987

Susumu Tonegawa

Japan

Physiology or Medicine

 

18

1989

The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)

Tibet (now China)

Peace

 

19

1991

Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar

Peace

 

20

1994

Kenzaburo Oe

Japan

Literature

 

21

1994

Yasser Arafat

Palestine

Peace

 

22

1994

Shimon Peres

Israel

Peace

 

23

1994

Yitzhak Rabin

Israel

Peace

 

24

1996

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta

Timor-Leste

Peace

 

25

1998

Daniel C. Tsui

China

Physics

 

26

1998

Amartya Sen

India

Economics

 

27

2000

Hideki Shirakawa

Japan

Chemistry

 

28

2000

Gao Xingjian

Japan

Chemistry

 

29

2000

Gao Xingjian

China

Literature

 

30

2000

Kim Dae-jung

South Korea

Peace

 

31

2001

Ryoji Noyori

Japan

Chemistry

 

32

2001

VS Naipaul

Trinidad and Tobago

Literature

 

33

2002

Masatoshi Koshiba

Japan

Physics

 

34

2002

Koichi Tanaka

Japan

Chemistry

 

35

2002

Daniel Kahneman

Israel

Economics

USA

36

2003

Shirin Ebadi

Iran

Peace

 

37

2004

Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko

Israel

Chemistry

 

38

2005

Robert J. Aumann

Israel

Economics

 

39

2006

Orhan Pamuk

Turkey

Literature

 

40

2006

Muhammad Yunus

Bangladesh

Peace

 

41

2008

Osamu Shimomura

Japan

Chemistry

 

42

2008

Roger Y. Tsien

China

Chemistry

USA

43

2008

Yoichiro Nambu

Japan

Physics

 

44

2008

Toshihide Maskawa

Japan

Physics

 

45

2009

Charles Kuen Kao

Hong Kong, China

Physics

UK

46

2009

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

India

Chemistry

 

47

2009

Ada E. Yonath

Israel

Chemistry

 

48

2010

Ei-ichi Negishi

China

Chemistry

 

49

2010

Akira Suzuki

Japan

Chemistry

 

50

2010

Liu Xiaobo

China

Peace

 

51

2011

Tawakkol Karman

Yemen

Peace

 

52

2011

Dan Shechtman

Israel

Chemistry

 

53

2012

Shinya Yamanaka

Japan

Physiology or Medicine

 

54

2012

Mo Yan

China

Literature

 

55

2013

Arieh Warshel

British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)

Chemistry

 

56

2014

Kailash Satyarthi

India

Peace

 

57

2014

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistan

Peace

 

58

2014

Isamu Akasaki

Japan

Physics

 

59

2014

Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura

Japan

Physics

 

60

2015

Takaaki Kajita

Japan

Physics

 

61

2015

Aziz Sancar

Turkey

Chemistry

 

62

2015

Satoshi Ōmura

Japan

Physiology or Medicine

 

63

2015

Tu Youyou

China

Physiology or Medicine

 

64

2016

Yoshinori Ohsumi

Japan

Physiology or Medicine

 

65

2017

Kazuo Ishiguro

Japan

Literature

 

66

2018

Tasuku Honjo

Japan

Physiology or Medicine

 

67

2018

Nadia Murad Basee Taha

Iran

Peace

 

68

2019

Akira Yoshino

Japan

Chemistry

 

69

2019

Abhijit Banerjee

India

Economics

 

70

2021

Syukuro Manabe

Japan

Physics

 

71

2021

Maria Ressa

Philippines

Peace

 

72

2023

Moungi G. Bawendi

France/ Tunisia

Chemistry

France

 

 

USSR - RUSSIA

 

 

 

74

1933

Bunin IA

USSR

Literature

 

75

1958

Cherenkov PA

 

Physics

 

76

1958

Pasternak BL

 

Literature

 

77

1962

Landau LD

 

Physics

 

78

1964

Basov NG

 

Physics

 

79

1964

Prokhorov AM

 

Physics

 

80

1965

Sholokhov MA

 

Literature

 

81

1970

Solzhenitsyn AI

 

Literature

 

82

1975

Kantorovich LV

 

Economy

 

83

1978

Kapitsa PL

 

Physics

 

83

1987

Brodsky IA

 

Literature

 

84

2000

Alferov Zh.I.

 

Physics

 

85

2003

Abrikosov AA

 

Physics

 

86

2003

Ginzburg VL

 

Physics

 

87

2010

Game Andr

 

Physics

 

88

2010

Novoselov Konstantin

 

Physics

 

 

The total Number of Nobel Laureates worldwide from 1901 to 2024 is 970 

Number of Nobel Laureates by country, TOP 20

 

1

United States of America

400

2

United Kingdom

137

3

Germany

111

4

France

71

5

Sweden

32

6

Japan

29

7

Canada

28

8

Switzerland

27

9

Austria

22

10

Netherlands

22

11

Italy

21

12

Poland

19

13

Denmark

13

14

Hungary

13

15

Israel

13

16

Norway

13

17

Australia

12

18

India

12

19

Belgium

11

20

Ireland

11