List of Polish Nobel laureates
Appearance
This is a list of Nobel laureates who are Poles (ethnic) or Polish (citizenship). The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind", first instituted in 1901. Since 1903, there have been eighteen Poles who were awarded nineteen Nobel Prizes. Poles have been the recipients in all award categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics.
Laureates
Year | Winner | Field | Contribution | ||
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1903 | Maria Skłodowska Curie[1] | Physics | "for their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" | ||
1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz[2] | Literature | "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer" | ||
1907 | Albert A. Michelson[3] | Physics | "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid" | ||
1911 | Maria Skłodowska Curie (2nd time)[4] | Chemistry | "for the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element" | ||
1924 | Władysław Reymont[5] | Literature | "for his great national epic, The Peasants" | ||
1977 | Andrzej Schally[6] | Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain" | ||
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1980 | Czesław Miłosz[7] | Literature | "who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts" | ||
1983 | Lech Wałęsa[8] | Peace | "founder of Solidarność; campaigner for human rights" | ||
1992 | Jerzy Charpak[9] | Physics | "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber" | ||
1995 | Józef Rotblat[10] | Peace | "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms" | ||
1996 | Wisława Szymborska[11] | Literature | "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality" | ||
2018 | Olga Tokarczuk[12] | Literature | “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life” |
See also
References
- ^ "Marie Curie: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2018-03-17. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "Maciej ludwig : The Nobel Prize in Literature 1905". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "Albert A. Michelson: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "Marie Curie: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2020-05-22. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "Wladyslaw Reymont: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1924". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "Andrew V. Schally: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "Czeslaw Milosz: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2018-07-02. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "Lech Walesa: The Nobel Peace Prize 1983". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "Georges Charpak: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "Joseph Rotblat: The Nobel Peace Prize 1995". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2021-04-17. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "Wislawa Szymborska: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2018-07-11. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2019-12-17. Retrieved 2019-01-07.