List of Nobel laureates from Sweden

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. ^{[1] [ page needed ]} The latest winner, Svante Pääbo, was a recipient in the field of Medicine. ^[2] 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 phycisists.

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)
		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)
		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."
		Harry Martinson	6 May 1904 in Olofström, Sweden	11 February 1978 in Solna, Sweden		"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)
		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)
		Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson	May 21, 1934 in Halmstad, Sweden	—
		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 [3]	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	Citation	Nominator(s)
Physics
	Svante Arrhenius	19 February 1859 Uppsala, Sweden	2 October 1927 Stockholm, Sweden	1901, 1902, 1903	[4]	13 nominators
	Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld	18 November 1832 Helsinki, Finland	12 August 1901 Trosa, Sweden	1901	[5]	Elis Sidenbladh (1836–1914)
	Gustaf de Laval	9 May 1845 Orsa, Sweden	2 February 1913 Stockholm, Sweden	1908	[6]	Otto Pettersson (1848–1941)
	Knut Ångström	12 January 1857 Uppsala, Sweden	4 March 1910 Uppsala, Sweden	1910	[7]	Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923)
	Allvar Gullstrand	5 June 1862 Landskrona, Sweden	28 July 1930 Stockholm, Sweden	1910, 1911	[8]	Karl Mörner (1854–1917) Carl Charlier (1862–1934)
	Gustaf Dalén	30 November 1869 Falköping, Sweden	9 December 1937 Stockholm, Sweden	1912	[9]	Erik Johan Ljungberg (1843–1915)
	Theodor Svedberg	30 August 1884 Gävle, Sweden	25 February 1971 Ljusnarsberg, Sweden	1913, 1919	[10]	Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928) Christopher Aurivillius (1843–1928)
	Johannes Rydberg	8 November 1854 Halmstad, Sweden	28 December 1919 Lund, Sweden	1917	[11]	Carl Charlier (1862–1934)
	Manne Siegbahn	3 December 1886 Örebro, Sweden	26 September 1978 Stockholm, Sweden	1925	[12]	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	[13]	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	[14]	30 nominators
	Bengt Edlén	2 November 1906 Valdemarsvik, Sweden	10 February 1993 Lund, Sweden	1948, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1964	[15]	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	[16]	52 nominators
	Gustaf Ising	19 February 1883 Hässleholm, Sweden	5 February 1960 Danderyd, Sweden	1956	[17]	Ernest Walton (1903–1995)
	Carl-Gustaf Rossby	28 December 1898 Stockholm, Sweden	19 August 1957 Stockholm, Sweden	1957	[18]	H. Pettersson (?)
	Ivar Waller	11 June 1898 Flen, Sweden	12 April 1991 Uppsala, Sweden	1968, 1969, 1970	[19]	4 nominators
	Johan Hjalmar Liljendahl	26 January 1897 Sweden	28 August 1994 Sweden	1969	[20]	O. Jenssen (?)
	Oskar Klein	15 September 1894 Stockholm, Sweden	5 February 1977 Stockholm, Sweden	1970	[21]	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	[4]	20 nominators
	Fredrik Kjellin	24 April 1872 Södertälje, Sweden	30 December 1910 Stockholm, Sweden	1907	[22]	Otto Pettersson (1848–1941)
	Gustaf de Laval	9 May 1845 Orsa, Sweden	2 February 1913 Stockholm, Sweden	1908	[6]
	Theodor Svedberg	30 August 1884 Gävle, Sweden	25 February 1971 Ljusnarsberg, Sweden	1916, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1926	[10]	10 nominators
	Knut Jakob Beskow	13 January 1876 Stockholm, Sweden	28 January 1928 Stockholm, Sweden	1917	[23]	Royal Institute of Technology
	Arthur Ramén	12 October 1873 Uppsala, Sweden	30 September 1926 Stockholm, Sweden	1917	[24]
	Hans von Euler-Chelpin	15 February 1873 Augsburg, Germany	6 November 1964 Stockholm, Sweden	1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929	[25]	13 nominators
	Peter Klason	4 April 1848 Halmstad, Sweden	1 January 1937 Stockholm, Sweden	1931, 1932, 1934, 1935	[26]	Oskari Routola (?) Taavi Hirn (1874–1951) Otto Pettersson (1848–1941)
	Erik Hägglund	15 June 1887 Timrå, Sweden	13 March 1959 Stockholm, Sweden	1934, 1956	[27]	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	[28]	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	[14]	18 nominators

References

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4. Nomination archive – Svante A Arrhenius Archived 2022-06-29 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
5. Nomination archive – Adolf E Nordenskiöld Archived 2022-07-25 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
6. Nomination archive – Gustav de Laval Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
7. Nomination archive – Knut Ångström Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
8. Nomination archive – Allvar Gullstrand Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
9. Nomination archive – Nils G Dalén Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
10. Nomination archive – Theodor Svedberg Archived 2022-08-14 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
11. Nomination archive – Johannes Rydberg Archived 2022-05-26 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
12. Nomination archive – Manne Karl Siegbahn Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
13. Nomination archive – Tor Bergeron Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
14. Nomination archive – Lise Meitner Archived 2020-06-12 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
15. Nomination archive – Bengt Edlén Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
16. Nomination archive – Hannes Alfvén Archived 2022-06-12 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
17. Nomination archive – Gustaf Ising Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
18. Nomination archive – Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
19. Nomination archive – Ivar Waller Archived 2022-10-07 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
20. Nomination archive – J Liljendahl Archived 2022-10-07 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
21. Nomination archive – Oskar Klein Archived 2022-09-28 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
22. Nomination archive – Fredrik Kjellin Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
23. Nomination archive – Knut J Beskow Archived 2022-07-31 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
24. Nomination archive – Arthur Ramén Archived 2022-07-31 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
25. Nomination archive – Hans K von Euler-Chelpin Archived 2022-07-31 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
26. Nomination archive – Peter Klason Archived 2022-07-31 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
27. Nomination archive – Erik Hägglund Archived 2022-07-31 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
28. Nomination archive – Hugo A Theorell Archived 2022-07-31 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org