Nobel Prizes And Laureates

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 - William Yeats
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 - Bernard Shaw
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 - Samuel Beckett
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 - Seamus Heaney

Ireland - Sweden Joint Issue
Irish Nobel Prize Winners
October 1, 2004

William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-Century literature.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist. He has significant influence on Western theatre, culture, and politics since the 1880s.
Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 – 1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, director, and poet. He lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th Century.
Seamus Justin Heaney (1939 - 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, translator and lecturer. He was widely recognized as the greatest Irish poet since William Butler Yeats.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930 - Karl Landsteiner
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936 - Otto Loewi

Austria
Dr. Karl Landsteiner (June 14, 1968)
Otto Loewi (June 4, 1973)

Karl Landsteiner (1868 – 1943), was an Austrian biologist and physician. He developed the modern system of classification of blood groups and safe blood transfusion.
Otto Loewi (1873 – 1961) was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist. His discovery of acetylcholine helped enhance medical therapy.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Corneille Heymans
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974 - Albert Claude

Belgium
Red Cross - Nobel Prize Winners
February 14, 1987

Corneille Jean François Heymans (1892 – 1968) was a Belgian physiologist. He won the Nobel Prize for showing how blood pressure and the oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain.
Albert Claude (1899 – 1983) was a Belgian medical doctor and cell biologist. He received the Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1960 - Albert Luthuli

South Africa
Albert Luthuli
December 9, 2011

Albert John Luthuli (c. 1898 – 1967), also known by his Zulu name Mvumbi, was a South African teacher, activist, and politician. Luthuli was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC). He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the non-violent struggle against apartheid.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909 - Theodor Kocher
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909 - Wilhelm Ostwald
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1909 - Selma Lagerlöf
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 - Guglielmo Marconi and Ferdinand Braun

Sweden
Nobel Prize Winners series
December 10, 1969

Emil Theodor Kocher (1841 - 1917) was a Swiss physician and medical researcher. He made significant contribution in physiology, pathology, and surgery of the thyroid. He was considered a pioneer and leader in the field of surgery in his time.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (1853 – 1932) was a German chemist. He worked on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities. He was one of the modern founders of the field of physical chemistry.

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858 – 1940) was a Swedish author and teacher. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is best remembered for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils).

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and a radio telegraph system.

Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850 - 1918) was a German inventor and physicist. He contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1955 - Halldór Kiljan Laxness

Iceland
Halldór Kiljan Laxness
March 7, 2002

Halldór Kiljan Laxness (1902 – 1998) was a 20th-century Icelandic writer. Laxness wrote poetry, newspaper articles, plays, short stories, and novels. His main achievement consists of three novel cycles written during the thirties, dealing with the people of Iceland.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 - Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet

Tunisia
Nobel Peace Prize 2015
December 10, 2015

The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet is a group of four organizations that were central in the attempts to build a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1906 - Henri Moissan

France
Henri Moissan - Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
October 16, 2006

Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan (1852 – 1907) was a French chemist. He won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1935 - Carl von Ossietzky

Berlin (Germany)
100th Birthday of Carl von Ossietzky
August 10, 1989

Carl von Ossietzky (1889 – 1938) was a German pacifist. He received the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the secret German re-armament. The stamp shows his portrait and the periodical Die Weltbühne of which he was the editor-in-chief since 1927.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965 - Jacques Monod

France
Jacques Monod
February 21, 1987

Jacques Lucien Monod (1910 – 1976) was a French biochemist who is widely regarded as one of the founders of molecular biology. He won the Nobel Prize for his work on the genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 - Alexander Fleming

San Marino
Pioneers of Science
February 24, 1983

Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 – 1955) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He is best known for his discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the world's first antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995 - Mario Molina

Mexico
Dr. Mario Molina
December 5, 1997
Mario José Molina (1943 - ) is a Mexican chemist who studies the threat of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases to the Earth's ozone layer. He is widely known for his pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 - Martin Luther King Jr.

Paraguay
Events of 1968
December 21, 1968

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 - Elias Canetti

Bulgaria
The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Elias Canetti
July 25, 2005

Elias Canetti (1905 – 1994) was a German language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria, and later a British citizen. He was a modernist novelist and playwright. He is known mainly for his trilogy of autobiographical memoirs Die Gerettete Zunge, Die Fackel im Ohr, and Das Augenspiel, and for his modernist novel Die Blendung.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 - Dorothy Hodgkin
Great Britain
EUROPA - Famous Women
August 6, 1996

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910 – 1994) was a British chemist. She advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the three-dimensional structures of biological molecules (penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B12 for examples).