List of Chinese Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prize

Since 1957, there have been thirteen Chinese (including Chinese-born) winners of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. An associated prize, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was instituted by Sweden's central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.

Following is a list of Nobel laureates who have been citizens of the Republic of China or the People's Republic of China and of overseas birth.

Laureates

Chinese citizens

Citizens of  Republic of China [Taiwan]

The following are the Nobel laureates who are or were citizens of Republic of China (currently capital in Taipei City) at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Year Laureate Chinese name English name Category Life Rationale Place of Birth
1957 楊振寧 Yang Chen-Ning Physics 1922– "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles" Hefei, Anhwei, China
李政道 Tsung-Dao Lee Physics 1926– Shanghai, China
1976 丁肇中 Samuel C. C. Ting Physics 1936– "for pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind." Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Dual-citizen of  United States and Taiwan Republic of China
1986 李遠哲 Yuan T. Lee Chemistry 1936– "for contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes". Shinchiku City, Shinchiku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan.
Citizens of  People's Republic of China

The following are the Nobel laureates who were citizens of People's Republic of China at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Year Laureate Chinese name English name Category Life Rationale Place of Birth
2010 刘晓波 Liu Xiaobo Peace 1955–2017 "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China". Changchun, Jilin, China
2012 莫言 Mo Yan Literature 1955– "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Gaomi, Shandong, China
2015 屠呦呦 Tu Youyou Physiology or Medicine 1930– "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria". Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Chinese diaspora

Year Laureate Chinese name English name Category Life Rationale Place of Birth
1976 丁肇中 Samuel C. C. Ting Physics 1936– "for pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind" Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
1997 朱棣文 Steven Chu Physics 1948– "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light". St. Louis, Missouri, United States
1998 崔琦 Daniel C. Tsui Physics 1939– "for discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" Pingdingshan, Henan, China
2000 高行健 Gao Xingjian Literature 1940– "for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama". Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
2008 錢永健 Roger Y. Tsien Chemistry 1952–2016 "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP" New York City, New York, United States
2009 高錕 Charles K. Kao Physics 1933–2018 "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication" Shanghai, China

Others

Tibetan

The following are the Nobel laureates who were of uncertain citizenship at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Year Laureate Category Life Rationale Place of Birth
1989 བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) Peace 1935– "for advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people." Taktser, Qinghai, Tibet

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