Noble Prize & Laureates Detail Explanations 

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Noble Prize & Laureates

 [Names of Nobel Prize winners from 2021]

Nobel laureates in 2025: A total of 14 people won the Nobel Prize in 2025. Only two of them won this prize alone. In 2025, a total of two women won the Nobel Prize in Peace and Medicine. The Nobel Prize winners in 2025 in various fields are:

🔹2025 Nobel Prize in Physics: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis Noble Prize & Laureates
🔹2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi
🔹2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi
🔹2025 Nobel Prize in Literature: László Krasznahorkai
🔹2025 Nobel Prize in Peace: Maria Corina Machado
🔹2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt

2024 Nobel Prize Winners: A total of 10 people won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Of these, only three people won the prize individually. The Nobel Prize winners in 2024 in various fields are:

🔹2024 Nobel Prize in Physics: John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton
🔹2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: David Baker Noble Prize & Laureates
🔹2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun Noble Prize & Laureates
🔹2024 Nobel Prize in Literature: Han Kang Noble Prize & Laureates
🔹2024 Nobel Prize in Peace: Nihon Hidankyo Noble Prize & Laureates
🔹2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson

Nobel Prize Winners in 2023: A total of 11 people won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Of these, only three people won the prize individually. The Nobel Prize recipients in various fields in 2023 are:

🔹Nobel Prize in Physics in 2023: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier
🔹Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2023: Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Yekimov
🔹Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023: Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
🔹Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023: Jon Fosse
🔹Nobel Prize in Peace in 2023: Narges Mohammadi
🔹Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2023: Claudia Goldin
🔹Nobel Prize in 2022: A total of 12 people and 2 organizations won the Nobel Prize in 2022. Only two of them have won the prize alone. The Nobel laureates in 2022 in various fields are:

🔹2022 Nobel Prize in Physics: Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
🔹2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless
🔹2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Svante Pääbo
🔹2022 Nobel Prize in Literature: Annie Ernaux
🔹2022 Nobel Peace Prize: Ales Bialiatski, Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties
🔹2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig

2021 Nobel Prize Winners: A total of 13 people won the Nobel Prize in 2021. Of these, only one person won the prize alone. The Nobel Prize winners in 2021 in various fields are:
🔹The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021 was won by Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi
🔹The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2021 was won by Benjamin List and David MacMillan
🔹The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2021 was won by David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian
🔹The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 was won by Abdulrazak Gurnah
🔹The Nobel Prize in Peace in 2021 was won by Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov
🔹The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2021 was won by David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens

Nobel Prize winners in 2020: A total of 11 individuals and one organization won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Only one person has won the prize individually. The Nobel Prize winners in 2020 in various fields are:
🔹The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020 was won by Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
🔹The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 was won by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
🔹The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2020 was won by Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice
🔹The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020 was won by Louise Glück
🔹The Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 was won by the World Food Programme (WFP).
🔹The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2020 was won by Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson

🔘 Nobel in India: Officially, till now India as a country has won 9 Nobel Prizes. The first Nobel Prize in India came in 1913 in the field of literature through the hands of world poet Rabindranath Tagore and the last Nobel Prize came in 2019 in economic sciences through Indian economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee. If we look at the history of the arrival of the Nobel Prize in India, we can see that two Nobel Prizes came in British India and seven Nobel Prizes came in democratic India i.e. after independence. Among the Nobel Prizes won by Indian achievements, one Nobel Prize in Literature, two each in Physics, Peace and Economic Sciences and one each in Medicine and Chemistry. If we look at the year, India won the Nobel Prize in 1913, 1930, 1968, 1979, 1983, 1998, 2009, 2014 and 2019.

🔹In 1913, the first Nobel Prize came to India from the field of literature through the hands of the world poet Rabindranath Tagore. The poet won this award for his book of poetry called “Gitanjali“. In 2004, Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel was stolen from the security room at Visva Bharati University, which has not yet been recovered.

🔹In 1930, the second Nobel Prize came to India from the hands of Indian physicist and India’s first national professor Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman. Chandrasekhar won this award in recognition of his discovery of “The Raman Effect” on February 28, 1928, which is considered the first Nobel Prize won by an Asian and a non-white person in any branch of science. Currently, February 28 is celebrated as National Science Day in India. In 1954, Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, along with Rajagopalachari, the first Governor General of independent India, and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the Indian philosopher, received the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honor.

🔹In 1968, India received its third Nobel Prize through Indian scientist Dr. Har Govind Khorana. Dr. Khorana won the Nobel Prize in Medicine jointly with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg in recognition of his discovery of a simple method for determining the codon sequence of amino acids in his research field of Molecular Biology.

🔹In 1979, India received its fourth Nobel Prize through the Macedonian-born Indian social worker Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her lifelong service to the poor and sick.

🔹In 1983, the fifth Nobel Prize came to India through the Indian-origin American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. He won the Nobel Prize with another scientist William A. Fowler for his research on “the importance of physical processes in the formation and evolution of stars”.

🔹In 1998, the sixth Nobel Prize came to India through the hands of the Indian and Bengali economist Amartya Kumar Sen. Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in recognition of his research on welfare economics. In 1999, the Indian government honored him with the Bharat Ratna.

🔹In 2009, the seventh Nobel Prize came to India through the Indian-origin British and American structural biologist Venkataraman Ramakrishnan. Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for his research on the structure and function of ribosomes in living organisms.

🔹In 2014, India’s eighth Nobel Prize was awarded to Indian social reformer Kailash Satyarthi. Kailash Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Pakistani citizen Malala Yousafzai in recognition of his “work to shape public opinion against child labor and in favor of universal child education.” This Nobel was stolen in 2017.

🔹In 2019, India’s ninth Nobel Prize was awarded to Indian-origin American citizen and Bengali economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee. Abhijit Banerjee, along with his wife Esther Duflo and fellow economist Michael Kremer, won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on “alleviating global poverty”.

In addition to the above 9 people, three foreign nationals born in India have been awarded the Nobel Prize: British scientist Ronald Ross, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1902; British writer Rudyard Kipling, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907; and Tibetan monk and 14th Dalai Lama or Gilwa Rinpoche, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.

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