List of Arab Nobel laureates
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. Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals.
People from the Arab countries have been the recipients in three of six award categories: Peace, Chemistry and Literature. The first Arab recipient, Anwar Sadat, was awarded the Peace Prize in 1978. The most recent recipient Tawakkul Karman was awarded to Peace prizes in 2011. One Arab laureate —Anwar Sadat — was president of his country when he was awarded the prize.
Laureates
Arab World
Year |
Image |
Laureate |
Country |
Category |
Comment |
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1978 |
Peace |
First Afro-Arab to win a Nobel Prize in Peace |
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1988 |
Naguib Mahfouz |
Literature |
First North African Arab to win a Nobel Prize in Literature |
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1994 |
Yasser Arafat |
Peace |
first Palestinian Arab in Nobel laureate in Peace |
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1999 |
Ahmed Zewail |
Chemistry |
First North African Arab to win a Nobel Prize in Science |
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2005 |
Mohamed ElBaradei |
Peace |
First Arab to win a Nobel Prize in Peace |
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2011 |
Tawakkul Karman |
Peace |
First Arab Muslim Women Nobel laureate in Peace |
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2015 |
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet |
Peace |
First tunisian Nobel Prize |
Diaspora
Year |
Image |
Laureate |
Country |
Category |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1960 |
Peter Medawar |
Medicine |
First half Arab to win a Nobel Prize in Medicine, From Christian Lebanese descent |
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1990 |
Elias James Corey |
Chemistry |
First Christian Lebanese descent in Nobel laureate in Chemistry |
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2015 |
Aziz Sancar |
Chemistry |
First Turkish Arab in Nobel laureate in Chemistry. |