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List of Swiss Nobel laureates

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First instituted in 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to a total of 965 individuals and 27 organizations as of 2023.[1] Among them, 27 Swiss nationals have been honored with the Nobel Prize[nb 1]. Additionally, four laureates acquired Swiss citizenship after the award: Wolfgang Pauli was naturalized, while Kofi Annan, Max Theiler, and Jack Steinberger were granted honorary citizenship. Switzerland is among the countries with the highest number of Nobel laureates, both in total and per capita.[4][5]

The Nobel Prize

Ten organizations headquartered in Switzerland have received the Nobel Prize for Peace. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been awarded twice, and the International Committee of the Red Cross three times. Four of these organizations were also founded in Switzerland, and they all have their headquarters in Geneva, a city hosting more than 40 international organizations and 750 non-governmental organizations.[6]

The first Nobel Prize for Peace, awarded in 1901, went to the Swiss humanitarian Henry Dunant. The latest Swiss laureates are Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who received the Nobel for Physics in 2019. The 27 prizes are distributed as follows: eight for medicine, seven for chemistry, seven for physics, three for peace, and two for literature. No Swiss national has yet received a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Laureates

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Swiss Nobel laureates
Year Image Laureate Born Died Field Rationale
1901   Henry Dunant, co-founder of the Red Cross 8 May 1828 in Geneva 30 October 1910 in Heiden Peace "for his humanitarian efforts to help wounded soldiers and create international understanding"[7]
prize shared with Frédéric Passy
1902   Charles Albert Gobat, politician and director of the Permanent International Peace Bureau 21 May 1843 in Tramelan 16 March 1914 in Bern Peace "for his eminently practical administration of the Inter-Parliamentary Union"[8]
prize shared with Élie Ducommun
1902   Élie Ducommun, peace activist and director of the Permanent International Peace Bureau 19 February 1833 in Geneva 7 December 1906 in Bern Peace "for his untiring and skilful directorship of the Bern Peace Bureau"[9]
prize shared with Charles Albert Gobat
1909   Emil Theodor Kocher, physician who introduced scientific methods in surgery 28 August 1841 in Bern 27 July 1917 in Bern Physiology or Medicine "for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland"[10]
1913   Alfred Werner, professor at the University of Zurich 12 December 1866 in Mulhouse, France
acquired Swiss citizenship in 1894[11] 		15 November 1919 in Zurich Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry"[12]
1919   Carl Spitteler, poet and writer 24 April 1845 in Liestal 29 December 1924 in Lucerne Literature "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring"[13]
1920   Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist, head of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures 15 February 1861 in Fleurier 13 June 1938 in Sèvres, France Physics "in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys"[14]
1921   Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity 14 March 1879 in Ulm, Germany
acquired Swiss citizenship in 1901[15] 		18 April 1955 in Princeton, USA Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"[16]
1937   Paul Karrer, organic chemist known for his contributions on vitamins 21 April 1889 in Moscow, Russia 18 June 1971 in Zurich Chemistry "for his investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2"[17]
prize shared with Norman Haworth
1939   Leopold Ružička, chemist, professor at ETH Zurich 13 September 1887 in Vukovar, Austria-Hungary
acquired Swiss citizenship in 1917[18] 		26 September 1976 in Zurich Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes"[19]
prize shared with Adolf Butenandt
1946   Hermann Hesse, poet, novelist and painter 2 July 1877 in Calw, Germany
acquired Swiss citizenship in 1924[20] 		9 August 1962 in Montagnola Literature "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style"[21]
1948   Paul Hermann Müller, chemist at J. R. Geigy AG who synthesized DDT 12 January 1899 in Olten 12 October 1965 in Basel Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods"[22]
1949   Walter Rudolf Hess, physiologist and professor at the University of Zurich who mapped areas of the brain 17 March 1881 in Frauenfeld 12 August 1973 in Ascona Chemistry "for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs"[23]
prize shared with Egas Moniz
1950   Tadeusz Reichstein, chemist and professor at the University of Basel who contributed to the isolation of cortisone 20 July 1897 in Wloclawek, Poland
acquired Swiss citizenship in 1914[24] 		1 August 1996 in Basel Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects"[25]
prize shared with Edward Calvin Kendall and Philip Showalter Hench
1952   Felix Bloch, physicist, first director-general of CERN and among the developers of nuclear magnetic resonance 23 October 1905 in Zurich 10 September 1983 in Zurich Physics "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith"[26]
prize shared with Edward Mills Purcell
1957   Daniel Bovet, pharmacologist who discovered antihistamines 23 March 1907 in Neuchâtel 8 April 1992 in Rome, Italy Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles"[27]
1975   Vladimir Prelog, organic chemist, professor at ETH Zurich 23 July 1906 in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary
acquired Swiss citizenship in 1959[28] 		7 January 1998 in Zurich Chemistry "for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions"[29]
prize shared with John Cornforth
1978   Werner Arber, microbiologist and geneticist, professor at the University of Geneva and Basel 3 June 1929 in Gränichen — Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics"[30]
prize shared with Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith
1986   Heinrich Rohrer, physicist, IBM Fellow 6 June 1933 in Buchs 16 May 2013 in Wollerau Physics "for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope"[31]
prize shared with Gerd Binning and Ernst Ruska
1987   K. Alex Müller, physicist, IBM Fellow 20 April 1927 in Basel 9 January 2023 in Zurich Physics "for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials"[32]
prize shared with J. Georg Bednorz
1991   Richard R. Ernst, physical chemist, professor at ETH Zurich 14 August 1933 in Winterthur 4 June 2021 in Winterthur Chemistry "for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy"[33]
1992   Edmond H. Fischer, biochemist, professor at the University of Washington 6 April 1920 in Shanghai, China
acquired Swiss citizenship in 1947[34] 		27 August 2021 in Seattle, USA Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism"[35]
prize shared with Edwin G. Krebs
1996   Rolf M. Zinkernagel, professor of experimental immunology at the University of Zurich 6 January 1944 in Basel — Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"[36]
prize shared with Peter C. Doherty
2002   Kurt Wüthrich, chemist and biophysicist, professor at ETH Zurich and The Scripps Research Institute 4 October 1938 in Aarburg — Chemistry "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"[37]
prize shared with John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka
2017   Jacques Dubochet, biophysicist, professor at the University of Lausanne 8 June 1942 in Aigle — Chemistry "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"[38]
prize shared with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson
2019   Michel Mayor, astrophysicist, professor at the University of Geneva 12 January 1942 in Lausanne — Physics "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star"[39]
prize shared with Jim Peebles and Didier Queloz
2019   Didier Queloz, astronomer, professor at the University of Cambridge and Geneva 23 February 1966 in Geneva — Physics "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star"[40]
prize shared with Jim Peebles and Michel Mayor

Individuals who acquired Swiss citizenship after the award

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Nobel laureates who acquired Swiss citizenship after the award
Year Image Laureate Born Died Field Rationale
1945   Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian theoretical physicist and pioneer of quantum mechanics 25 April 1900 in Vienna, Austria
naturalized Swiss in 1949[41][nb 2] 		15 December 1958 in Zurich Physics "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle"[43]
1951   Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and physician 30 January 1899 in Pretoria, South Africa
acquired honorary Swiss citizenship in 1952[44] 		11 August 1972 in New Haven, USA Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it"[45]
1988   Jack Steinberger, American physicist noted for his work with neutrinos 25 May 1921 in Bad Kissingen, Germany
acquired honorary Swiss citizenship in 2006[46] 		12 December 2020 in Geneva Physics "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino"[47]
prize shared with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz
2001   Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat, secretary-general of the United Nations 8 April 1938 in Kumasi, Gold Coast
acquired honorary Swiss citizenship in 2001[48] 		18 August 2018 in Bern Peace "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"[49]
prize shared with the United Nations

Organizations headquartered in Switzerland who received the Peace Nobel

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Organizations headquartered in Switzerland who received the Peace Nobel
Year Logo Organization Founded Headquarters Rationale
1910   Permanent International Peace Bureau 1891, Bern Geneva; since 2017 Berlin, Germany[50] "for acting as a link between the peace societies of the various countries, and helping them to organize the world rallies of the international peace movement"[51]
1917   International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 1863, Geneva Geneva "for the efforts to take care of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war and their families"[52]
1938 Nansen International Office for Refugees 1921, Geneva Geneva "for having carried on the work of Fridtjof Nansen to the benefit of refugees across Europe"
1944   International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 1863, Geneva Geneva "for the great work it has performed during the war on behalf of humanity"[53]
1954   Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1950, Geneva Geneva "for its efforts to heal the wounds of war by providing help and protection to refugees all over the world"[54]
1963   International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 1863, Geneva Geneva "for promoting the principles of the Geneva Convention and cooperation with the UN"[55]
prize shared with the League of Red Cross Societies
1963   League of Red Cross Societies 1919, Paris, France Geneva "for promoting the principles of the Geneva Convention and cooperation with the UN"[56]
prize shared with the International Committee of the Red Cross
1969   International Labour Organization (ILO) 1919, Geneva Geneva "for creating international legislation insuring certain norms for working conditions in every country"[57]
1981   Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1950, Geneva Geneva "for promoting the fundamental rights of refugees"[58]
1997   International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) 1992, USA Geneva "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines"[59]
prize shared with Jody Williams
1999   Doctors Without Borders 1971, Paris, France Geneva "in recognition of the organisation's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents"[60]
2007   Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1988, New York City, USA Geneva "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"[61]
prize shared with Al Gore
2017   International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) 2007, Australia Geneva "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons"[62]

See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Some lists, such as the one published by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, count a total of 30 individuals[2] including some that acquired the nationality after the award, as well as Hermann Staudinger, German national who was a Swiss resident.[3]
  2. ^ Pauli's initial application for Swiss citizenship in 1940 was refused as he was deemed "not assimilable".[42]

References

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