All Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine

In 1901, Emil von Behring was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy, particularly for its use in the treatment of diphtheria. The Nobel Prize in Medicine has subsequently highlighted a number of important discoveries including penicillin, genetic engineering and blood-typing.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to 192 persons since 1901.

• 2008 - Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier

• 2007 - Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans, Oliver Smithies

• 2006 - Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello

• 2005 - Barry J. Marshall, J. Robin Warren

• 2004 - Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck

• 2003 - Paul C. Lauterbur, Sir Peter Mansfield

• 2002 - Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John E. Sulston

• 2001 - Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Sir Paul Nurse

• 2000 - Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel

• 1999 - Günter Blobel

• 1998 - Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad

• 1997 - Stanley B. Prusiner

• 1996 - Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel

• 1995 - Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus

• 1994 - Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell

• 1993 - Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A. Sharp

• 1992 - Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs

• 1991 - Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann

• 1990 - Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas

• 1989 - J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus

• 1988 - Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings

• 1987 - Susumu Tonegawa

• 1986 - Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini

• 1985 - Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein

• 1984 - Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler, César Milstein

• 1983 - Barbara McClintock

• 1982 - Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane

• 1981 - Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel

• 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell

• 1979 - Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield

• 1978 - Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith

• 1977 - Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow

• 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg, D. Carleton Gajdusek

• 1975 - David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard M. Temin

• 1974 - Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade

• 1973 - Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen

• 1972 - Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter

• 1971 - Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.

• 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod

• 1969 - Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey, Salvador E. Luria

• 1968 - Robert W. Holley, H. Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg

• 1967 - Ragnar Granit, Haldan K. Hartline, George Wald

• 1966 - Peyton Rous, Charles B. Huggins

• 1965 - François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod

• 1964 - Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen

• 1963 - Sir John Eccles, Alan L. Hodgkin, Andrew F. Huxley

• 1962 - Francis Crick, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins

• 1961 - Georg von Békésy

• 1960 - Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Medawar

• 1959 - Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg

• 1958 - George Beadle, Edward Tatum, Joshua Lederberg

• 1957 - Daniel Bovet

• 1956 - André F. Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards

• 1955 - Hugo Theorell

• 1954 - John F. Enders, Thomas H. Weller, Frederick C. Robbins

• 1953 - Hans Krebs, Fritz Lipmann

• 1952 - Selman A. Waksman

• 1951 - Max Theiler

• 1950 - Edward C. Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip S. Hench

• 1949 - Walter Hess, Egas Moniz

• 1948 - Paul Müller

• 1947 - Carl Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay

• 1946 - Hermann J. Muller

• 1945 - Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst B. Chain, Sir Howard Florey

• 1944 - Joseph Erlanger, Herbert S. Gasser

• 1943 - Henrik Dam, Edward A. Doisy

• 1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

• 1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

• 1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

• 1939 - Gerhard Domagk

• 1938 - Corneille Heymans

• 1937 - Albert Szent-Györgyi

• 1936 - Sir Henry Dale, Otto Loewi

• 1935 - Hans Spemann

• 1934 - George H. Whipple, George R. Minot, William P. Murphy

• 1933 - Thomas H. Morgan

• 1932 - Sir Charles Sherrington, Edgar Adrian

• 1931 - Otto Warburg

• 1930 - Karl Landsteiner

• 1929 - Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Hopkins

• 1928 - Charles Nicolle

• 1927 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg

• 1926 - Johannes Fibiger

• 1925 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

• 1924 - Willem Einthoven

• 1923 - Frederick G. Banting, John Macleod

• 1922 - Archibald V. Hill, Otto Meyerhof

• 1921 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

• 1920 - August Krogh

• 1919 - Jules Bordet

• 1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

• 1917 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

• 1916 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

• 1915 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

• 1914 - Robert Bárány

• 1913 - Charles Richet

• 1912 - Alexis Carrel

• 1911 - Allvar Gullstrand

• 1910 - Albrecht Kossel

• 1909 - Theodor Kocher

• 1908 - Ilya Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich

• 1907 - Alphonse Laveran

• 1906 - Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal

• 1905 - Robert Koch

• 1904 - Ivan Pavlov

• 1903 - Niels Ryberg Finsen

• 1902 - Ronald Ross

• 1901 - Emil von Behring