List of Chinese Nobel laureates

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Since 1957, there have been thirteen Chinese (including Chinese-born) winners of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. An associated prize, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was instituted by Sweden's central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.

Following is a list of Nobel laureates who have been citizens of the Republic of China or the People's Republic of China[1] and of overseas birth.

Laureates

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Chinese citizens

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Republic of China (Taiwan)

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The following are the Nobel laureates who are or were citizens of the Republic of China (current capital in Taipei) at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.[2]

Year Laureate Chinese name English name Category Life Rationale Place of birth
1957 File:Yang.jpg 楊振寧 Yang Chen-Ning Physics 1922–2025 "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"[3] Hefei, Anhui, China
File:TD Lee.jpg 李政道 Tsung-Dao Lee Physics 1926–2024 Shanghai, China
1976 File:Samuel ting 10-19-10.jpg 丁肇中 Samuel C. C. Ting Physics 1936– "for pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind."[4] Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Dual-citizen of File:Flag of the United States.svg United States and Taiwan Republic of China
1986 File:Yuan T. Lee official portrait (3x4 cropped).jpg 李遠哲 Yuan T. Lee Chemistry 1936– "for contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".[5] Shinchiku City, Shinchiku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan

People's Republic of China

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The following are the Nobel laureates who were citizens of People's Republic of China at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.[6]

Year Laureate Chinese name English name Category Life Rationale Place of birth
2010 File:Portrait of Liu Xiaobo by Wang Liming (2017, cropped).jpg 劉曉波 Liu Xiaobo Peace 1955–2017 "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".[7] Changchun, Jilin, China
2012 File:MoYan Hamburg 2008.jpg 莫言 Mo Yan Literature 1955– "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".[8] Gaomi, Shandong, China
2015 File:D810 4987 Tu Youyou, medicine (22945001843) (cropped).jpg 屠呦呦 Tu Youyou Physiology or Medicine 1930– "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria".[9] Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Chinese diaspora

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Year Laureate Chinese name English name Category Life Rationale Place of birth[note 1]
1976 File:Samuel ting 10-19-10.jpg 丁肇中 Samuel C. C. Ting Physics 1936– "for pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"[10] Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States[11]
1997 File:Professor Steven Chu ForMemRS headshot.jpg 朱棣文 Steven Chu Physics 1948– "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light".[12] St. Louis, Missouri, United States[13]
1998 File:Daniel Chee Tsui.jpg 崔琦 Daniel C. Tsui Physics 1939– "for discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"[14] Pingdingshan, Henan, China
2000 File:Gao Xingjian Galerie Simoncini Luxembourg (3x4 cropped).jpg 高行健 Gao Xingjian Literature 1940– "for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama".[15] Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
2008 File:Roger Tsien-press conference Dec 07th, 2008-2.jpg 錢永健 Roger Y. Tsien Chemistry 1952–2016 "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"[16] New York City, New York, United States[17]
2009 File:Charles K. Kao cropped 2.jpg 高錕 Charles K. Kao Physics 1933–2018 "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"[18] Shanghai, China

Others

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Tibetan

The following are the Nobel laureates who were of uncertain citizenship at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Year Laureate Category Life Rationale Place of birth
1989 File:14th Dalai Lama 1989 (3x4 rotated cropped).jpg བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) Peace 1935– "for advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people."[19] Taktser, Qinghai, China[note 2]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The Nobel website lists the country of Residence at the time of the award for both the Literature and Peace (if goes to a person) prizes; see "Facts" information of the individuals at [1] and [2]. While the prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economic Sciences are listed by Affiliation at the time of the award; see "Facts" information of the individuals at [3], [4], [5], and [6]. The official Nobel website only lists the country of the person's affiliated insititions for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economic Sciences prizes, and not the citizenship of the person himself.
  2. ^ The Nobel Peace Prize 1989 indicates Dalai Lama was born in Tibet in 1935. Taktser is a village located in Greater Tibet, the eastern part of which was called Qinghai (spelled Tsinghai at the time) by the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China. Although Tibet itself was not controlled by the Republic of China government, Tsinghai (Qinghai) province was under the authority of the government of the Republic of China.[20]

References

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  20. ^ The Tsinghai Province was established as early as 1928, and Taktser since then has been a city within its region; see also the 1930 national map of the Republic of China (ROC) Archived 18 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine, and the 1936 political regional map of the ROC Archived 6 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine in Wikimedia Commons.
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