List of Nobel Prize Winners in Physiology or Medicine and Their Achievements

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded 108 times to 214 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2017. Click on the links to get more information.

Year Laureate Country Rationale
1901 Emil Adolf von Behring Germany "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths"
1902 Ronald Ross United Kingdom "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it"
1903 Niels Ryberg Finsen Denmark "[for] his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science"
1904 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Russia "in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, through which knowledge on vital aspects of the subject has been transformed and enlarged"
1905 Robert Koch Germany "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis"
1906 Camillo Golgi Italy "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system"
  Santiago Ramón y Cajal Spain  
1907 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran France "in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases"
1908 Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov Russia "in recognition of their work on immunity"
Paul Ehrlich Germany
1909 Emil Theodor Kocher Switzerland "for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland"
1910 Albrecht Kossel Germany "in recognition of the contributions to our knowledge of cell chemistry made through his work on proteins, including the nucleic substances"
1911 Allvar Gullstrand Sweden "for his work on the dioptrics of the eye"
1912 Alexis Carrel France "[for] his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs"
1913 Charles Richet France "[for] his work on anaphylaxis"
1914 Robert Bárány Austria "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus"
1915 Not awarded
1916
1917
1918
1919 Jules Bordet Belgium "for his discoveries relating to immunity"
1920 Schack August Steenberg Krogh Denmark "for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism"
1921 Not awarded
1922 Archibald Vivian Hill United Kingdom "for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle"
Otto Fritz Meyerhof Germany "for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle"[25]
1923 Frederick Grant Banting Canada "for the discovery of insulin"
John James Richard Macleod Canada
1924 Willem Einthoven The Netherlands "for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"
1925 Not awarded
1926 Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger Denmark "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma"
1927 Julius Wagner-Jauregg Austria "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica"
1928 Charles Jules Henri Nicolle France "for his work on typhus"
1929 Christiaan Eijkman The Netherlands "for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin"
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins United Kingdom "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins"[31]
1930 Karl Landsteiner Austria "for his discovery of human blood groups"
1931 Otto Heinrich Warburg Germany "for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme"
1932 Sir Charles Scott Sherrington United Kingdom "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons"
Edgar Douglas Adrian United Kingdom
1933 Thomas Hunt Morgan United States "for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity"
1934 George Hoyt Whipple United States "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia"
George Richards Minot United States
William Parry Murphy United States
1935 Hans Spemann Germany "for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development"
1936 Sir Henry Hallett Dale United Kingdom "for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses"
Otto Loewi Austria
1937 Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrapolt Hungary "for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"
1938 Corneille Jean François Heymans Belgium "for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration"
1939 Gerhard Domagk Germany "for the discovery of the antibacterial effects of prontosil"
1940 Not awarded
1941
1942
1943 Carl Peter Henrik Dam Denmark "for his discovery of vitamin K"
Edward Adelbert Doisy United States "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K"
1944 Joseph Erlanger United States "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"
Herbert Spencer Gasser United States
1945 Sir Alexander Fleming United Kingdom "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"
Ernst Boris Chain United Kingdom
Howard Walter Florey Australia
1946 Hermann Joseph Muller United States "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation"
1947 Carl Ferdinand Cori United States "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen"
Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz United States
Bernardo Alberto Houssay Argentina "for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar"
1948 Paul Hermann Müller Switzerland "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods"
1949 Walter Rudolf Hess Switzerland "for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs"
António Caetano Egas Moniz Portugal "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy (lobotomy) in certain psychoses"
1950 Philip Showalter Hench United States "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects"
Edward Calvin Kendall United States
Tadeusz Reichstein Switzerland
1951 Max Theiler Union of South Africa "for his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it"
1952 Selman Abraham Waksman United States "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis"
1953 Hans Adolf Krebs United Kingdom "for his discovery of the citric acid cycle"
Fritz Albert Lipmann United States "for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism"
1954 John Franklin Enders United States "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
Frederick Chapman Robbins United States
Thomas Huckle Weller United States
1955 Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell Sweden "for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes"
1956 André Frédéric Cournand United States "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Werner Forssmann Federal Republic of Germany
Dickinson W. Richards United States
1957 Daniel Bovet Italy "for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles"
1958 George Wells Beadle United States "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
Edward Lawrie Tatum United States
Joshua Lederberg United States "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria"
1959 Arthur Kornberg United States "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"
Severo Ochoa Spain
United States
1960 Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet Australia "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"
Peter Brian Medawar United Kingdom
1961 Georg von Békésy United States "for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"
1962 Francis Harry Compton Crick United Kingdom "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"
James Dewey Watson United States
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins New Zealand
United Kingdom
1963 Sir John Carew Eccles Australia "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin United Kingdom
Andrew Fielding Huxley United Kingdom
1964 Konrad Bloch United States "for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism"
Feodor Lynen Federal Republic of Germany
1965 François Jacob France "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"
André Lwoff France
Jacques Monod France
1966 Peyton Rous United States "for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses"
Charles Brenton Huggins United States "for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer"[65]
1967 Ragnar Granit Finland/Sweden "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye"
Haldan Keffer Hartline United States
George Wald United States
1968 Robert W. Holley United States "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis"
Har Gobind Khorana India
Marshall W. Nirenberg United States
1969 Max Delbrück United States "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses"
Alfred D. Hershey United States
Salvador E. Luria United States
1970 Julius Axelrod United States "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation"
Ulf von Euler Sweden
Sir Bernard Katz United Kingdom
1971 Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. United States "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones"
1972 Gerald M. Edelman United States "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies"
Rodney R. Porter United Kingdom
1973 Karl von Frisch Federal Republic of Germany "for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns"
Konrad Lorenz Austria
Nikolaas Tinbergen United Kingdom
1974 Albert Claude Belgium "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell"
Christian de Duve Belgium
George E. Palade United States
1975 David Baltimore United States "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell"
Renato Dulbecco Italy
United States
Howard Martin Temin United States
1976 Baruch S. Blumberg United States "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"
D. Carleton Gajdusek United States
1977 Roger Guillemin United States "for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain"
Andrew V. Schally United States
Rosalyn Yalow United States "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones"[76]
1978 Werner Arber Switzerland "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics"
Daniel Nathans United States
Hamilton O. Smith United States
1979 Allan M. Cormack United States "for the development of computer assisted tomography"
Godfrey N. Hounsfield United Kingdom
1980 Baruj Benacerraf Venezuela "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions"
Jean Dausset France
George D. Snell United States
1981 Roger W. Sperry United States "for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres"
David H. Hubel United States "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system"
Torsten N. Wiesel Sweden
1982 Sune K. Bergström Sweden "for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances"
Bengt I. Samuelsson Sweden
John R. Vane United Kingdom
1983 Barbara McClintock United States "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements"
1984 Niels K. Jerne Denmark "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies"
Georges J.F. Köhler Federal Republic of Germany
César Milstein Argentina
United Kingdom
1985 Michael S. Brown United States "for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism"
Joseph L. Goldstein United States
1986 Stanley Cohen United States "for their discoveries of growth factors"
Rita Levi-Montalcini Italy
United States
1987 Susumu Tonegawa Japan "for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity"
1988 Sir James W. Black United Kingdom "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment"
Gertrude B. Elion United States
George H. Hitchings United States
1989 J. Michael Bishop United States "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"
Harold E. Varmus United States
1990 Joseph E. Murray United States "for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease"
E. Donnall Thomas United States
1991 Erwin Neher Federal Republic of Germany "for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells"
Bert Sakmann Federal Republic of Germany
1992 Edmond H. Fischer Switzerland
United States
"for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism"
Edwin G. Krebs United States
1993 Richard J. Roberts United Kingdom "for their discoveries of split genes"
Phillip A. Sharp United States
1994 Alfred G. Gilman United States "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells"
Martin Rodbell United States
1995 Edward B. Lewis United States "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Federal Republic of Germany
Eric F. Wieschaus United States
1996 Peter C. Doherty Australia "for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"
Rolf M. Zinkernagel Switzerland
1997 Stanley B. Prusiner United States "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection"
1998 Robert F. Furchgott United States "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system"
Louis J. Ignarro United States
Ferid Murad United States
1999 Günter Blobel United States "for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell"
2000 Arvid Carlsson Sweden "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system"
Paul Greengard United States
Eric R. Kandel United States
2001 Leland H. Hartwell United States "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"
Tim Hunt United Kingdom
Sir Paul M. Nurse United Kingdom
2002 Sydney Brenner United Kingdom "for their discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"
H. Robert Horvitz United States
John E. Sulston United Kingdom
2003 Paul Lauterbur United States "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"
Sir Peter Mansfield United Kingdom
2004 Richard Axel United States "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system"
Linda B. Buck United States
2005 Barry J. Marshall Australia "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"
J. Robin Warren Australia
2006 Andrew Z. Fire United States "for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"
Craig C. Mello United States
2007 Mario R. Capecchi United States "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells."
Sir Martin J. Evans United Kingdom
Oliver Smithies United States
2008 Harald zur Hausen Germany "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi France "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"[107]
Luc Montagnier France
2009 Elizabeth H. Blackburn United States
Australia
"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
Carol W. Greider United States
Jack W. Szostak United States
United Kingdom
2010 Robert G. Edwards United Kingdom "for the development of in vitro fertilization"

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