Statistics for Nobel Prize Winners in Physiology or Medicine

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YearNationalityReason for AwardAnswer% Correct
1945British"for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"Sir Alexander Fleming
92%
1962British"for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"Francis Harry Compton Crick
91%
1915 | 1916 | 1917 | +6 othersNo Award Given.a
89%
1901German"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"Emil Adolf von Behring
86%
AmericanHamilton O. Smith
86%
British, Nazi GermanErnst Boris Chain
85%
AmericanJames Dewey Watson
85%
1904Russian"in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, through which knowledge on vital aspects of the subject has been transformed and enlarged"Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
84%
1902British"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"Ronald Ross
84%
1947Austro-Hungarian, American"for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen"Carl Ferdinand Cori
83%
Austro-Hungarian, American, JewishGerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz
83%
1946American"for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation"Hermann Joseph Muller
83%
1948Swiss"for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods"Paul Hermann Muller
83%
2004American"for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system"Richard Axel
83%
2010British"for the development of in vitro fertilization"Robert G. Edwards
83%
1905German"for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis"Robert Koch
83%
1988British"for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment"Sir James W. Black
83%
American, Irish"for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites"William C. Campbell
83%
2015Chinese"for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria"Youyou Tu
83%
2006American"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"Andrew Z. Fire
82%
BritishEdgar Douglas Adrian
82%
AmericanJulius Axelrod
82%
1903Danish"in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science"Niels Ryberg Finsen
82%
SpanishSantiago Ramon y Cajal
82%
AustralianSir Howard Walter Florey
82%
AmericanArthur Kornberg
81%
1976American"for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"Baruch S. Blumberg
81%
NorwegianEdvard I. Moser
81%
1939Nazi German"for the discovery of the antibacterial effects of prontosil"Gerhard Domagk
81%
1943Danish"for his discovery of vitamin K"Henrik Carl Peter Dam
81%
1989American"for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"J. Michael Bishop
81%
2014American, British"for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain"John O'Keefe
81%
NorwegianMay-Britt Moser
81%
1959Spanish"for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"Severo Ochoa
81%
2002South African"for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'"Sydney Brenner
81%
2016Japanese"for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy"Yoshinori Ohsumi
81%
2009Australian, American"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"Elizabeth H. Blackburn
80%
2001American"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"Leland H. Hartwell
80%
1936British"for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses"Sir Henry Hallett Dale
80%
1963Australian"for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"Sir John Carew Eccles
80%
2007British"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"Sir Martin J. Evans
80%
1986American"for their discoveries of growth factors"Stanley Cohen
80%
AmericanCraig C. Mello
79%
1975American"for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell"David Baltimore
79%
AmericanEdwin G. Krebs
79%
1965French"for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"Francois Jacob
79%
1953British, West German"for his discovery of the citric acid cycle"Hans Adolf Krebs
79%
AustrianKonrad Lorenz
79%
AmericanLinda B. Buck
79%
AmericanLouis J. Ignarro
79%
1966American"for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses"Peyton Rous
79%
JapaneseSatoshi Omura
79%
BritishSir Paul M. Nurse
79%
2000Swedish"for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system"Arvid Carlsson
78%
1992Swiss"for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism"Edmond H. Fischer
78%
American, ItalianMario R. Capecchi
78%
1985American"for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism"Michael S. Brown
78%
2012British"for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"Sir John B. Gurdon
78%
American"for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K"Edward Adelbert Doisy
77%
West GermanFeodor Lynen
77%
AmericanFerid Murad
77%
American, RomanianGeorge E. Palade
77%
AmericanHaldan Keffer Hartline
77%
AustralianJ. Robin Warren
77%
FrenchLuc Montagnier
77%
AmericanMartin Rodbell
77%
New Zealander, BritishMaurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
77%
1984Danish"for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies"Niels K. Jerne
77%
American, BritishOliver Smithies
77%
1996Australian"for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"Peter C. Doherty
77%
JapaneseShinya Yamanaka
77%
1933American"for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity"Thomas Hunt Morgan
77%
BritishAndrew Fielding Huxley
76%
2011American"for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity"Bruce A. Beutler
76%
1906Italian"in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system"Camillo Golgi
76%
1909Swiss"for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland"Emil Theodor Kocher
76%
AmericanGeorge Richards Minot
76%
2013American"for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"James E. Rothman
76%
Canadian"for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"Ralph M. Steinman
76%
1970British, West German"for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation"Sir Bernard Katz
76%
1982Swedish"for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances"Sune K. Bergstrom
76%
American, GermanThomas C. Sudhof
76%
1974Belgian"for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell"Albert Claude
75%
1979South African"for the development of computer assisted tomography"Allan M. Cormack
75%
BelgianChristian de Duve
75%
1957Swiss, Italian"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"Daniel Bovet
75%
1991German"for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells"Erwin Neher
75%
1972American"for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies"Gerald M. Edelman
75%
AmericanGertrude B. Elion
75%
AmericanHarold E. Varmus
75%
FrenchJacques Monod
75%
BritishJohn James Rickard Macleod
75%
FrenchJules A. Hoffmann
75%
1973Austrian"for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns"Karl von Frisch
75%
AmericanPhillip A. Sharp
75%
1914Austro-Hungarian"for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus"Robert Barany
75%
1978Swiss"for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics"Werner Arber
75%
Portuguese"for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses"Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
74%
1922British"for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle"Archibald Vivian Hill
74%
1955Swedish"for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes"Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
74%
GermanBert Sakmann
74%
ArgentinianCesar Milstein
74%
AmericanDaniel Nathans
74%
1971American"for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones"Earl W. Sutherland Jr.
74%
AmericanE. Donnall Thomas
74%
West GermanGeorges J.F. Kohler
74%
1961Hungarian"for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"Georg von Bekesy
74%
BritishJohn R. Vane
74%
1990American"for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease"Joseph E. Murray
74%
AmericanJoseph L. Goldstein
74%
American"for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones"Rosalyn Yalow
74%
1952American, Jewish"for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis"Selman Waksman
74%
BritishSir Peter Mansfield
74%
Polish, SwissTadeus Reichstein
74%
1956French"for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"Andre Frederic Cournand
73%
AmericanGeorge Wald
73%
1954American"for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"John Franklin Enders
73%
BritishRodney R. Porter
73%
BritishTim Hunt
73%
1949Swiss"for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs"Walter Rudolf Hess
73%
BritishAlan Lloyd Hodgkin
72%
AmericanAlfred D. Hershey
72%
1983American"for her discovery of mobile genetic elements"Barbara McClintock
72%
2005Australian"for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"Barry J. Marshall
72%
1929Dutch"for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin"Christiaan Eijkman
72%
1968American"for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis"Robert W. Holley
72%
SwissRolf M. Zinkernagel
72%
British"for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins"Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
72%
SwedishUlf von Euler
72%
AmericanCarol W. Greider
71%
1938Belgian"for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration"Corneille Jean Francois Heymans
71%
1964American, West German"for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism"Konrad Bloch
71%
German"for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle"Otto Fritz Meyerhof
71%
1912French"in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs"Alexis Carrel
70%
1994American"for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells"Alfred G. Gilman
70%
SwedishBengt I. Samuelsson
70%
1999American, German"for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell"Gunter Blobel
70%
AmericanHerbert Spencer Gasser
70%
Canadian, American"for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer"Charles Brenton Huggins
69%
1950American"for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects"Edward Calvin Kendall
69%
1935Nazi German"for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development"Hans Spemann
69%
1944American"for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"Joseph Erlanger
69%
1931German"for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme"Otto Heinrich Warburg
69%
1910German"in recognition of the contributions to our knowledge of cell chemistry made through his work on proteins, including the nucleic substances"Albrecht Kossel
68%
AmericanGeorge H. Hitchings
68%
1981American"for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres"Roger W. Sperry
68%
AmericanThomas Huckle Weller
68%
1928French"for his work on typhus"Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
67%
AmericanPaul Greengard
67%
1932British"for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons"Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
66%
AmericanWilliam Parry Murphy
66%
FrenchAndre Lwoff
65%
American, West German"for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism"Fritz Albert Lipmann
65%
AmericanDickinson W. Richards
64%
1923Canadian"for the discovery of insulin"Frederick Grant Banting
63%
AmericanPhilip Showalter Hench
63%
Austrian, AmericanEric R. Kandel
62%
AmericanFrederick Chapman Robbins
62%
AmericanMarshall W. Nirenberg
62%
AmericanRandy W. Schekman
62%
1993British"for their discoveries of split genes"Richard J. Roberts
62%
AmericanGeorge D. Snell
60%
AmericanHoward Martin Temin
60%
1951American, South African"for his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it"Max Theiler
60%
ItalianSalvador E. Luria
60%
1934American"for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia"George Hoyt Whipple
58%
AmericanEdward Lawrie Tatum
57%
American"for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria"Joshua Lederberg
56%
1995American"for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"Edward B. Lewis
55%
1958American"for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"George Wells Beadle
55%
FrenchJean Dausset
53%
1926Danish"for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma"Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
53%
1930Austrian"for his discovery of human blood groups"Karl Landsteiner
53%
Argentinian"for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar"Bernardo Alberto Houssay
52%
1913French"in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis"Charles Robert Richet
52%
AmericanPaul Ehrlich
52%
1967Finnish, Swedish"for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye"Ragnar Granit
52%
SwedishTorsten N. Wiesel
52%
Canadian"for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system"David H. Hubel
51%
West GermanWerner Forssmann
49%
1987Japanese"for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity"Susumu Tonegawa
47%
American, CanadianJack W. Szostak
42%
1927Austrian"for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica"Julius Wagner-Jauregg
42%
1920Danish"for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism"Schack August Steenberg Krogh
40%
1924Dutch"for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"Willem Einthoven
38%
2008German"for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"Harald zur Hausen
36%
BritishGodfrey N. Hounsfield
34%
1919Belgian"for his discoveries relating to immunity"Jules Bordet
33%
French"for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
32%
BritishPeter Brian Medawar
29%
1960Australian"for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance"Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
29%
BritishJohn E. Sulston
28%
American, IndianHar Gobind Khorana
23%
DutchNikolaas Tinbergen
23%
2003American"for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"Paul C. Lauterbur
19%
1907French"in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases"Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
18%
American, ItalianRenato Dulbecco
18%
ItalianRita Levi-Montalcini
18%
Polish-Jewish, Canadian, AmericanAndrew V. Schally
16%
AmericanH. Robert Horvitz
16%
1969American, West German"for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses"Max Delbruck
16%
1998American"for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular systemRobert F. Furchgott
8%
1911Swedish"for his work on the dioptrics of the eye"Allvar Gullstrand
6%
1980American, Venezuelan"for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions"Baruj Benacerraf
6%
1997American"for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection"Stanley B. Prusiner
6%
1908Russian"in recognition of their work on immunity"Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
5%
1937Hungarian"for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi Nagyrapolt
3%
GermanChristiane Nusslein-Volhard
3%
AmericanD. Carleton Gajdusek
3%
AmericanEric F. Wieschaus
2%
1977American, French"for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain"Roger Guillemin
1%

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