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{{More citations needed|date=December 2018}}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] Asians have been the recipients of all six award categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. The first Asian recipient, Rabindranath Tagore, was awarded the Literature Prize in 1913. The most Nobel Prizes awarded to Asians in a single year was in 2014, when five Asians became laureates. The most recent Asian laureates, a Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo and Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad were awarded their prizes in 2018. To date, there have been seventy-four Asian winners of the Nobel Prize, including twenty-seven Japanese, twelve Israeli, and eight Chinese (not including non-Chinese Laureates born in China). The following are not including Russian. PhysicsAs of 2018, there are 20 Asian won Nobel Prize in Physics, with the Japanese taking the most of the 11 winners. Year | Image | Laureate | Country at the time of the award | Category | Comment |
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1930 | Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman | British India}} | Physics | First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in science | 1949 | Hideki Yukawa | Japan}} | Physics | First Japanese Nobel laureate | 1957 | Chen Ning Yang | {{Flagicon|Republic of China (1912–49)}} China | Physics | First Chinese Nobel laureate | 1957 | Tsung-Dao Lee | {{Flagicon|Republic of China (1912–49)}} China | Physics | First Chinese Nobel laureate | 1965 | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga | {{Flag|Japan}} | Physics | 1973 | Leo Esaki | {{Flag|Japan}} | Physics | 1976 | Samuel C. C. Ting | {{Flag|United States}} | Physics | United States}} and {{Flagicon|ROC}} Republic of China | 1979 | Abdus Salam | Pakistan}} | Physics | First Pakistani Nobel laureate | 1983 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | United States}} | Physics | Born in India | 1997 | Steven Chu | United States}} | Physics | 1998 | Daniel C. Tsui | United States}} | Physics | Born in China | 2002 | Masatoshi Koshiba | Japan}} | Physics | 2008 | Yoichiro Nambu | United States}} | Physics | Japan}} | 2008 | Makoto Kobayashi | Japan}} | Physics | 2008 | Toshihide Maskawa | Japan}} | Physics | 2009 | Charles K. Kao | United Kingdom}} and {{Flag|United States}}, | Physics | First Hong Kong citizenship Nobel laureate | 2014 | Isamu Akasaki | Japan}} | Physics | 2014 | Hiroshi Amano | Japan}} | Physics | 2014 | Shuji Nakamura | United States}} | Physics | Japan}} | 2015 | Takaaki Kajita | Japan}} | Physics |
ChemistryAs of 2018, there are 16 Asian won Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with the Japanese taking the most of the 7 winners. Year | Image | Laureate | Country at the time of the award | Category | Comment |
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1981 | Kenichi Fukui | Japan}} | Chemistry | First Asian and Japanese Nobel laureate in Chemistry | 1986 | Yuan T. Lee | Taiwan}} and {{Flag|United States}} | Chemistry | First Taiwanese Nobel laureate | 2000 | Hideki Shirakawa | Japan}} | Chemistry | 2001 | Ryōji Noyori | Japan}} | Chemistry | 2002 | Koichi Tanaka | Japan}} | Chemistry | 2004 | Aaron Ciechanover | {{Flag|Israel}} | Chemistry | 2004 | Avram Hershko | {{Flag|Israel}} | Chemistry | 2008 | Osamu Shimomura | Japan}} | Chemistry | 2009 | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | {{Flag|United Kingdom}} and {{Flag|United States}} | Chemistry | Born in India | 2009 | Ada Yonath | {{Flag|Israel}} | Chemistry | 2010 | Ei-ichi Negishi | Japan}} | Chemistry | 2010 | Akira Suzuki | Japan}} | Chemistry | 2011 | Dan Shechtman | {{Flag|Israel}} | Chemistry | 2013 | Arieh Warshel | {{Flag|Israel}} and {{Flag|United States}} | Chemistry | 2013 | Michael Levitt | {{Flag|Israel}}, {{Flag|United Kingdom}} and {{Flag|United States}} | Chemistry | 2015 | Aziz Sancar | Turkey}} and {{Flag|United States}} | Chemistry | First Turkish Nobel laureate in science |
Physiology or MedicineAs of 2018, there are 7 Asian won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with the Japanese taking the most of the 5 winners. Year | Image | Laureate | Country at the time of the award | Category | Comment |
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1968 | Har Gobind Khorana | {{Flag|United States}} | Physiology or Medicine | First Asian born and Indian born Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine | 1987 | Susumu Tonegawa | Japan}} | Physiology or Medicine | First Asian and Japanese Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine | 2012 | Shinya Yamanaka | Japan}} | Physiology or Medicine | 2015 | Satoshi Ōmura | Japan}} | Physiology or Medicine | 2015 | Tu Youyou | China}} | Physiology or Medicine | First Chinese woman Nobel laureate | 2016 | Yoshinori Ohsumi | Japan}} | Physiology or Medicine | 2018 | Tasuku Honjo | Japan}} | Physiology or Medicine |
LiteratureAs of 2018, there are 8 Asian won Nobel Prize in Literature, with the Japanese taking the most of the 3 winners. Year | Image | Laureate | Country at the time of the award | Category | Comment |
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1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | British India}} | Literature | First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate | 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | {{Flag|Israel}} | Literature | First Israeli Nobel laureate | 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata | Japan}} | Literature | 1994 | Kenzaburō Ōe | Japan}} | Literature | 2000 | Gao Xingjian | France}} | Literature | Born in China | 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey}} | Literature | First Turkish Nobel laureate | 2012 | Mo Yan | China}} | Literature | 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | United Kingdom}} | Literature | Japan}} |
PeaceAs of 2018, there are 20 Asian won Nobel Prize in Literature, with the Israeli and Indian taking the most of the 3 winners. Year | Image | Laureate | Country at the time of the award | Category | Comment |
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1973 | Lê Đức Thọ (declined award) | North Vietnam}} | Peace | First Asian and Vietnamese Nobel laureate in Peace | 1974 | Eisaku Satō | {{Flag|Japan}} | Peace | 1978 | Menachem Begin | {{Flag|Israel}} | Peace | 1979 | Mother Teresa | India}} | Peace | First Asian woman Nobel laureate | 1988 | Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama | India}} | Peace | First Tibetan Nobel laureate | 1991 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Burma | Peace | First Myanmar Nobel laureate | 1994 | Yasser Arafat | Palestine}} | Peace | First Palestinian Arab in Nobel laureate | 1994 | Shimon Peres | {{Flag|Israel}} | Peace | 1994 | Yitzhak Rabin | {{Flag|Israel}} | Peace | 1996 | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo | Timor-Leste}} | Peace | First Timorese Nobel laureate | 1996 | José Ramos-Horta | Timor-Leste}} | Peace | First Timorese Nobel laureate | 2000 | Kim Dae-jung | South Korea}} | Peace | First Korean Nobel laureate | 2003 | Shirin Ebadi | Iran}} | Peace | First Iranian Nobel laureate | 2006 | Muhammad Yunus | Bangladesh}} | Peace | First Bangladeshi Nobel laureate in Peace | 2007 | Jose Ramon Villarin | Philippines}} | Peace | Jointly won with former US Vice President Al Gore as part of a team of climate scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change[3], "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"[4] | 2010 | Liu Xiaobo | China}} | Peace | First Asian Nobel laureate in prison | 2011 | Tawakkul Karman | Yemen}} | Peace | First Arab Woman and First Yemeni Nobel laureate | 2014 | Kailash Satyarthi | India}} | Peace | First Indian Nobel laureate in Peace | 2014 | Malala Yousafzai | Pakistan}} | Peace | First Pakistani Woman Nobel laureate and youngest Nobel laureate | 2018 | Nadia Murad | Iraq}} | Peace | First Iraqi Nobel laureate | |
EconomicsAs of 2018, there are 3 Asian won Nobel Prize in Literature, with the Israeli taking the most of the 2 winners. Year | Image | Laureate | Country at the time of the award | Category | Comment |
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1998 | Amartya Sen | India}} | Economics | First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate in Economics | 2002 | Daniel Kahneman | {{Flag|Israel}} and {{Flag|United States}} | Economic | 2005 | Robert Aumann | {{Flag|Israel}} and {{Flag|United States}} | Economic |
Non-Asian born Laureates of Asian descent{{main article|List of Chinese Nobel laureates#Laureates of Han Chinese linkage}}Non-Asian Laureates born in Asia{{main article|List of Chinese Nobel laureates#Non-Chinese Laureates born in China}}{{main article|List of Japanese Nobel laureates#Laureates with Japanese linkage}}References1. ^"Nobel Prize" (2007), in Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed 14 November 2007, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: {{quote|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. ^{{cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/all/ |title=All Nobel Laureates |publisher=Nobel Foundation |accessdate=2010-03-01}} 3. ^{{cite news|url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/09/07/11/aquino-swear-ateneos-new-president|title=Aquino to swear in Ateneo's new president|publisher=ABS-CBN News|date=September 7, 2011|accessdate=November 20, 2018}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007|url=http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/laureates/laureates-2007/announce-2007/|publisher=The Norwegian Nobel Committee|accessdate=20 November 2018|location=Oslo|date=12 October 2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128001029/http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/laureates/laureates-2007/announce-2007/|archivedate=2010-11-28|deadurl=yes|df=}}
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