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 of all Nobel prize categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics.
Laureates
Nobel laureates of Polish ancestry
- Irène Joliot-Curie (Physics, 1935)
- Julian Schwinger (Physics, 1965)
- Pyotr Kapitsa (Physics, 1978)
- Frank Wilczek (Physics, 2004)
- Michael Kremer (Economics, 2009)
- Jack Szostak (Physiology or Medicine, 2009)
- Robert Lefkowitz (Chemistry, 2012)
- Victor Ambros (Physiology or Medicine, 2024)
- John Hopfield (Physics, 2024)
See also
- List of Nobel laureates
- List of Nobel laureates by country
- List of female Nobel laureates
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