# List of Swedish Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prizes were established according to the will of the Swedish industrialist and inventor, Alfred Nobel and are awarded to individuals who have excelled in the fields of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, economics and peace. Since 1903, 39 Swedes have been awarded the Nobel Prize where it originates. The latest winner, Svante Pääbo, was a recipient in the field of Medicine. There are also two swedes born in the USA who are usually not included in most lists: Glenn T. Seaborg (Sjöborg) and Carl David Anderson, both physicists.

## Laureates

| Year | Laureate | Born | Died | Field | Rationale |
| 1903 | Svante Arrhenius | 19 February 1859 in Uppsala, Sweden | 2 October 1927 in Stockholm, Sweden | Chemistry | "for his electrolytic theory of dissociation." |
| 1908 | Klas Pontus Arnoldson | 27 October 1844 in Gothenburg, Sweden | 20 February 1916 in Stockholm, Sweden | Peace | "for his work as founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League." |
| 1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | 20 November 1858 in Sunne, Sweden | 16 March 1940 in Sunne, Sweden | Literature | "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings." |
| 1911 | Allvar Gullstrand | 5 June 1862 in Landskrona, Sweden | 28 July 1930 in Stockholm, Sweden | Physiology or Medicine | "for his work on the dioptrics of the eye." |
| 1912 | Gustaf Dalén | 30 November 1869 in Falköping, Sweden | 9 December 1937 in Lidingö, Sweden | Physics | "for his invention of automatic valves designed to be used in combination with gas accumulators in lighthouses and buoys." |
| 1916 | Verner von Heidenstam | 6 July 1859 i Askersund, Sweden | 20 May 20, 1940 in Motala, Sweden | Literature | "in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature." |
| 1921 | Hjalmar Branting | 23 November 1860 in Stockholm, Sweden | 24 February 1925 in Stockholm, Sweden | Peace | "for his work in the League of Nations." (awarded together with Christian Lous Lange) |
| 1924 | Manne Siegbahn | 3 December 1886 in Örebro, Sweden | 26 September 1978 in Stockholm, Sweden | Physics | "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy." |
| 1926 | Theodor Svedberg | 30 August 1884 in Gävle, Sweden | 25 February 1971 in Ljusnarsberg, Sweden | Chemistry | "for his work on disperse systems." |
| 1929 | Hans von Euler-Chelpin | February 15, 1873 in Augsburg, Germany | November 6, 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden | Chemistry | "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes." (awarded together with Arthur Harden) |
| 1930 | Nathan Söderblom | 15 January 1866 Uppsala, Sweden | 12 July 1931 Uppsala, Sweden | Peace | "for his efforts to involve the churches not only in work for ecumenical unity, but also for world peace." |
| 1931 | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | 20 July 1864 in Avesta, Sweden | 8 April 1931 in Stockholm, Sweden | Literature | "for the poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt." (awarded posthumously) |
| 1948 | Arne Tiselius | 10 August 1902 in Stockholm, Sweden | 29 October 1971 in Uppsala, Sweden | Chemistry | "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins." |
| 1951 | Pär Lagerkvist | 23 May 1891 in Växjö, Sweden | 11 July 1974 in Lidingö, Sweden | Literature | ""for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind." |
| 1955 | Hugo Theorell | 6 July 1903 in Linköping, Sweden | 15 August 1982 in Stockholm, Sweden | Physiology or Medicine | "for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes." |
| 1961 | Dag Hammarskjöld | 29 July 1905 in Jönköping, Sweden | 18 September 1961 in Ndola, Zambia | Peace | "for strengthening the foundations of the United Nations Organization." (awarded posthumously) |
| 1966 | Nelly Sachs | 10 December 1891 in Berlin, Germany | 12 May 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden | Literature | "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength." (awarded together with Shmuel Yosef Agnon) |
| 1967 | Ragnar Granit | 30 October 1900 in Riihimäki, Finland | 12 March 1991 in Stockholm, Sweden | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye." (awarded together with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald) |
| 1970 | Hannes Alfvén | 30 May 1908 in Norrköping, Sweden | 2 April 1995 in Danderyd, Sweden | Physics | "for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics." (awarded together with Louis Néel) |
| 1970 | Ulf von Euler | 7 February 1905 in Stockholm, Sweden | 9 March 1983 in Stockholm, Sweden | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation." (awarded together with Julius Axelrod and Bernard Katz) |
| 1974 | Gunnar Myrdal | 6 December in 1898 Orsa, Sweden | 17 May 1987 in Danderyd, Sweden | Economics | "for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." (awarded together with Friedrich Hayek) |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson | 29 July 1900 in Boden, Sweden | 25 August 1976 in Stockholm, Sweden | Literature | "for a narrative art, farseeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom." |
| 1974 | Harry Martinson | 6 May 1904 in Olofström, Sweden | 11 February 1978 in Solna, Sweden | Literature | "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos." |
| 1977 | Bertil Ohlin | 23 April 1899 in Klippan, Sweden | 3 August 1979 in Åre, Sweden | Economics | "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements." (awarded together with James Meade) |
| 1981 | Torsten Wiesel | 3 June 1924 Uppsala, Sweden | — | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system." (awarded together with Roger Wolcott Sperry and David Hunter Hubel) |
| 1981 | Kai Siegbahn | 20 April 1918 in Lund, Sweden | 20 July 2007 in Ängelholm, Sweden | Physics | "for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy." (awarded together with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Leonard Schawlow) |
| 1982 | Sune Bergström | 10 January 1916 in Stockholm, Sweden | 15 August 2004 in Stockholm, Sweden | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances." (awarded together with John Vane) |
| 1982 | Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson | May 21, 1934 in Halmstad, Sweden | — | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances." (awarded together with John Vane) |
| 1982 | Alva Myrdal | 31 January 1902 in Uppsala, Sweden | 1 February 1986 in Danderyd, Sweden | Peace | "for their magnificent work in the disarmament negotiations of the United Nations, where they have both played crucial roles and won international recognition." (awarded together with Alfonso García Robles) |
| 2000 | Arvid Carlsson | 25 January 1923 in Uppsala, Sweden | 29 June 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system." (awarded together with Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel) |
| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer | 15 April 1931 in Stockholm, Sweden | 26 March 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden | Literature | "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality." |
| 2015 | Tomas Lindahl | 28 January 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden | — | Chemistry | "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair." (shared with Paul L. Modrich and Aziz Sancar) |
| 2022 | Svante Pääbo | 20 April 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden | — | Physiology or Medicine | "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution." |
| 2023 | Anne L’Huillier | 16 August 1958 in Paris, France | — | Physics | "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter." (shared with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz) |

## Nominees

| Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Nominator(s) |
| Physics |||||||
| | Svante Arrhenius | 19 February 1859 Uppsala, Sweden | 2 October 1927 Stockholm, Sweden | 1901, 1902, 1903 | 13 nominators |
| | Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld | 18 November 1832 Helsinki, Finland | 12 August 1901 Trosa, Sweden | 1901 | Elis Sidenbladh (1836–1914) |
| | Gustaf de Laval | 9 May 1845 Orsa, Sweden | 2 February 1913 Stockholm, Sweden | 1908 | Otto Pettersson (1848–1941) |
| | Knut Ångström | 12 January 1857 Uppsala, Sweden | 4 March 1910 Uppsala, Sweden | 1910 | Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923) |
| | Allvar Gullstrand | 5 June 1862 Landskrona, Sweden | 28 July 1930 Stockholm, Sweden | 1910, 1911 | Karl Mörner (1854–1917)Carl Charlier (1862–1934) |
| | Gustaf Dalén | 30 November 1869 Falköping, Sweden | 9 December 1937 Stockholm, Sweden | 1912 | Erik Johan Ljungberg (1843–1915) |
| | Theodor Svedberg | 30 August 1884 Gävle, Sweden | 25 February 1971 Ljusnarsberg, Sweden | 1913, 1919 | Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928)Christopher Aurivillius (1843–1928) |
| | Johannes Rydberg | 8 November 1854 Halmstad, Sweden | 28 December 1919 Lund, Sweden | 1917 | Carl Charlier (1862–1934) |
| | Manne Siegbahn | 3 December 1886 Örebro, Sweden | 26 September 1978 Stockholm, Sweden | 1925 | David Starr Jordan (1851–1931)Max von Laue (1879–1960)Stefan Meyer (1872–1949) |
| | Tor Bergeron | 15 August 1891 Surrey, England, United Kingdom | 13 June 1977 Uppsala, Sweden | 1928, 1937, 1938, 1939 | 6 nominators |
| | Lise Meitner | 7 November 1878 Vienna, Austria | 27 October 1968 Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1937, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1967 | 30 nominators |
| | Bengt Edlén | 2 November 1906 Valdemarsvik, Sweden | 10 February 1993 Lund, Sweden | 1948, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1964 | 12 nominators |
| | Hannes Alfvén | 30 May 1908 Norrköping, Sweden | 2 April 1995 Danderyd, Sweden | 1953, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970 | 52 nominators |
| | Gustaf Ising | 19 February 1883 Hässleholm, Sweden | 5 February 1960 Danderyd, Sweden | 1956 | Ernest Walton (1903–1995) |
| | Carl-Gustaf Rossby | 28 December 1898 Stockholm, Sweden | 19 August 1957 Stockholm, Sweden | 1957 | H. Pettersson (?) |
| | Ivar Waller | 11 June 1898 Flen, Sweden | 12 April 1991 Uppsala, Sweden | 1968, 1969, 1970 | 4 nominators |
| | Johan Hjalmar Liljendahl | 26 January 1897 Sweden | 28 August 1994 Sweden | 1969 | O. Jenssen (?) |
| | Oskar Klein | 15 September 1894 Stockholm, Sweden | 5 February 1977 Stockholm, Sweden | 1970 | Karl Freudenberg (1886–1983)J. Hans D. Jensen (1907–1973) |
| Physics |||||||
| | Svante Arrhenius | 19 February 1859 Uppsala, Sweden | 2 October 1927 Stockholm, Sweden | 1901, 1902, 1903 | 20 nominators |
| | Fredrik Kjellin | 24 April 1872 Södertälje, Sweden | 30 December 1910 Stockholm, Sweden | 1907 | Otto Pettersson (1848–1941) |
| | Gustaf de Laval | 9 May 1845 Orsa, Sweden | 2 February 1913 Stockholm, Sweden | 1908 | Otto Pettersson (1848–1941) |
| | Theodor Svedberg | 30 August 1884 Gävle, Sweden | 25 February 1971 Ljusnarsberg, Sweden | 1916, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926 | 10 nominators |
| | Knut Jakob Beskow | 13 January 1876 Stockholm, Sweden | 28 January 1928 Stockholm, Sweden | 1917 | Royal Institute of Technology |
| | Arthur Ramén | 12 October 1873 Uppsala, Sweden | 30 September 1926 Stockholm, Sweden | 1917 | Royal Institute of Technology |
| | Hans von Euler-Chelpin | 15 February 1873 Augsburg, Germany | 6 November 1964 Stockholm, Sweden | 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929 | 13 nominators |
| | Peter Klason | 4 April 1848 Halmstad, Sweden | 1 January 1937 Stockholm, Sweden | 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935 | Oskari Routola (?)Taavi Hirn (1874–1951)Otto Pettersson (1848–1941) |
| | Erik Hägglund | 15 June 1887 Timrå, Sweden | 13 March 1959 Stockholm, Sweden | 1934, 1956 | Taavi Hirn (1874–1951)Joseph Risi (1899–1993) |
| | Hugo Theorell | 6 July 1903 Linköping, Sweden | 15 August 1982 Stockholm, Sweden | 1937, 1938, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955 | 21 nominators |
| | Lise Meitner | 7 November 1878 Vienna, Austria | 27 October 1968 Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948 | 18 nominators |