# List of Polish Nobel laureates

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 of all Nobel prize categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics.

## Laureates

| Year | Winner | Field | Contribution |
| 1903 | Maria Skłodowska Curie | Physics | "for their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" |
| 1905 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Literature | "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer" |
| 1907 | Albert A. Michelson | Physics | "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid" |
| 1911 | Maria Skłodowska Curie (2nd time) | 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 | Literature | "for his great national epic, The Peasants" |
| 1944 | Isidor Isaac Rabi | Physics | "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei" |
| 1950 | Tadeusz Reichstein | Medicine | "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects" |
| 1977 | Andrzej Schally | Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain" |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Literature | "for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life" |
| 1978 | Menachem Begin | Peace | "for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978" |
| 1980 | Czesław Miłosz | Literature | "who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts" |
| 1981 | Roald Hoffmann | Chemistry | "for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions" |
| 1983 | Lech Wałęsa | Peace | "founder of Solidarność; campaigner for human rights" |
| 1992 | Jerzy Charpak | Physics | "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber" |
| 1994 | Shimon Peres | Peace | "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" |
| 1995 | Józef Rotblat | 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 | Literature | "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality" |
| 2007 | Leonid Hurwicz | Economics | “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory” |
| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk | Literature | “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life” |

## Nobel laureates of Polish ancestry

* Irène Joliot-Curie (Physics, 1935)
* Julian Schwinger (Physics, 1965)
* Pyotr Kapitsa (Physics, 1978)
* Frank Wilczek (Physics, 2004)
* Michael Kremer (Economics, 2009)
* Jack Szostak (Physiology or Medicine, 2009)
* Robert Lefkowitz (Chemistry, 2012)
* Victor Ambros (Physiology or Medicine, 2024)
* John Hopfield (Physics, 2024)