List of Australian Nobel laureates

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Since 1915 there have been eleven Australians awarded the Nobel Prize. [1] Almost half of these prizes (eight) have been awarded in the field of Physiology or Medicine [2] Most Australians awarded Nobel prizes before the end of the awarding of British/Imperial honours (in 1992) also received (or were offered) knighthoods.

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This list includes laureates who were not born in Australia, but who nevertheless spent a significant portion of their training or career there.

In 2017, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which was launched in Australia, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Alexander M. Prokhorov was a Soviet-Russian Physicist who was born in Australia.

Australian Nobel laureates

YearImageLaureateFieldLifeCitation
2011 Brian Schmidt.jpg Brian P. Schmidt Physics1967–"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" shared with Saul Perlmutter and Adam G. Riess [3]
2009 Elizabeth Blackburn CHF Heritage Day 2012 Rush 001 (cropped).JPG Elizabeth Blackburn Physiology or Medicine1948–"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" shared with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak [4]
2005 Barry Marshall 2008.jpg Barry J. Marshall Physiology or Medicine1951–"for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease" shared with J. Robin Warren [5]
2005 Robin Warren.jpg J. Robin Warren Physiology or Medicine1937–2024"for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease" shared with Barry J. Marshall [6]
1996 Peter Doherty 09.jpg Peter C. Doherty Physiology or Medicine1940–"for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence" shared with Rolf M. Zinkernagel [7]
1975 John Cornforth 1975.jpg Sir John Cornforth Chemistry1917–2013"for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions" shared with Vladimir Prelog [8]
1973 Patrick White 1972 (cropped).jpg Patrick White Literature1912–1990"for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature" [9]
1964 Aleksandr Prokhorov.jpg Alexander M. Prokhorov Physics1916–2002"for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle" shared with Charles H. Townes and Nicolay G. Basov [10]
1963 Sir John Eccles Wellcome L0026812.jpg Sir John Carew Eccles Physiology or Medicine1903–1997"for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane" shared with Alan L. Hodgkin and Andrew F. Huxley [11]
1960 Frank Macfarlane Burnet nobel.jpg Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet Physiology or Medicine1899–1985"for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance" shared with Peter Medawar [12]
1945 Howard Walter Florey 1945.jpg Howard Florey Physiology or Medicine1898–1968"for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases" shared with Alexander Fleming and Ernst B. Chain [13]
1915 Wl-bragg.jpg Sir William Lawrence Bragg Physics1890–1971"for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays" shared with William Henry Bragg [14]

Australian laureates by birthplace

References

  1. "Australia's Nobel Prize winners". Australian Geographic. 3 August 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  2. "Nobel Prize Facts". Archived from the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  3. "Brian P. Schmidt - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011.
  4. "Elizabeth H. Blackburn - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 6 June 2010.
  5. "Barry J. Marshall - Autobiography". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 8 June 2010.
  6. "J. Robin Warren - Autobiography". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 8 June 2010.
  7. "Peter C. Doherty - Autobiography". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010.
  8. "John Cornforth - Autobiography". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010.
  9. "Patrick White - Autobiography". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010.
  10. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964".
  11. "Sir John Eccles - Biography". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010.
  12. "Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet - Biography". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010.
  13. "Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet - Biography". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010.
  14. "Lawrence Bragg - Biography". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 6 June 2010.