List of Arab Nobel laureates

Last updated May 21, 2022

The Nobel Prize is an annual, international prize first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. An associated prize in Economics has been awarded since 1969.^[1] Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals.^[2]

People from the Arab countries have been the recipients in four of five award categories: Peace, Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, and Literature. The first Arab recipient, Anwar Sadat, was awarded the Peace Prize in 1978. One Arab laureate, Anwar Sadat, was president of his country when he was awarded the prize.

Laureates

Arab World

Year	Laureate	Country	Category	Comment
1978	Anwar El Sadat	Egypt	Peace	First Egyptian and first Arab to win a Nobel Prize in Peace
1988	Naguib Mahfouz	Egypt	Literature	First Egyptian and first Arab to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
1994	Yasser Arafat	State of Palestine	Peace	First Palestinian in Nobel laureate in Peace
1999	Ahmed Zewail	Egypt	Chemistry	First Egyptian and first Arab to win a Nobel Prize in Science
2005	Mohamed ElBaradei	Egypt	Peace	Second Egyptian to win a Nobel Prize in Peace
2011	Tawakkul Karman	Yemen	Peace	First Yemeni and first Arab Woman Nobel laureate in Peace
2015	Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet	Tunisia	Peace	First Tunisian Nobel Prize and first Arab organization to win a Nobel Prize

Diaspora

Year	Laureate	Country	Category	Comment
1960	Peter Medawar	United Kingdom	Medicine	First half Lebanese to win a Nobel Prize in Medicine, He was from Christian (Maronite) Lebanese descent^[3]
1990	Elias James Corey	United States	Chemistry	First Christian Lebanese descent Nobel laureate in Chemistry ^[4]
2021	Abdulrazak Gurnah	Sultanate of Zanzibar	Literature	First Zanzibari Nobel Prize

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References

↑ "Nobel Prize" (2007), in Encyclopædia Britannica , accessed 14 November 2007, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online:
An additional award, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden and was first awarded in 1969
↑ "All Nobel Laureates". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
↑ "Sir Peter Medawar". New Scientist. 12 April 1984. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
↑ Elias James Corey – Autobiography

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[Britannica1-1] "Nobel Prize" (2007), in Encyclopædia Britannica , accessed 14 November 2007, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online:
An additional award, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden and was first awarded in 1969

[2] "All Nobel Laureates". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2010-03-01.

[new-3] "Sir Peter Medawar". New Scientist. 12 April 1984. Retrieved 27 February 2014.

[4] Elias James Corey – Autobiography

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