List of Polish Nobel laureates

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

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Laureates

YearWinnerFieldContribution
1903 Marie Curie c1920.jpg Maria Skłodowska Curie [1] Physics"for their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel"
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz 1905.jpg Henryk Sienkiewicz [2] Literature"because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer"
1907 Albert Abraham Michelson2.jpg Albert A. Michelson [3] Physics"for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid"
1911 Marie Curie c1920.jpg Maria Skłodowska Curie (2nd time) [4] 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 Wladyslaw Reymont 1924.jpg Władysław Reymont [5] Literature"for his great national epic, The Peasants "
1944 II Rabi.jpg Isidor Isaac Rabi [6] Physics"for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei"
1950 Thadeus Reichstein ETH-Bib Portr 10137.jpg Tadeusz Reichstein [7] Medicine"for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects"
1977 Andrew Schally portrait.jpg Andrzej Schally [8] Medicine"for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain"
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer (Gotfryd).jpg Isaac Bashevis Singer [9] Literature"for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life"
Menachem Begin, Andrews AFB, 1978.JPG Menachem Begin [10] Peace"for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978"
1980 Czeslaw Milosz 3 ap.tif Czesław Miłosz [11] Literature"who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"
1981 Roald Hoffmann.jpg Roald Hoffmann [12] Chemistry"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"
1983 Lech Walesa OAF Visit.jpg Lech Wałęsa [13] Peace"founder of Solidarność; campaigner for human rights"
1992 CHARPAK Georges-24x50-2005 cropped.JPG Jerzy Charpak [14] Physics"for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber"
1994 Meeting between PM Peres with newly elected PM Nethanyahu, 1996 Dan Hadani Archive II.jpg Shimon Peres [15] Peace"for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East"
1995 Joseph Rotblat Los Alamos identity badge photo.jpg Józef Rotblat [16] 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 Wislawa Szymborska 2009.10.23 (1).jpg Wisława Szymborska [17] 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.jpg Leonid Hurwicz [18] Economics“for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”
2018 Olga Tokarczuk (2018).jpg Olga Tokarczuk [19] Literature“for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”

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  2. ↑ "Maciej ludwig : The Nobel Prize in Literature 1905". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
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