The Nobel Prizes are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." In 1968, a sixth prize, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, was established. Hungarians have won 13 Nobel Prizes since 1905. Following is a complete list of the Nobel laureates of Hungary, as recognised by the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its ma ...

Laureates

Hungarians have received Nobel Prizes in Physics,

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Economics – in all fields except Peace.

Also included sometimes

Born in Hungary

* Leopold Ružička, born in the Kingdom of Hungary, ethnic Croat * Isidor Isaac Rabi, born in Austrian part of Austria-Hungary,

Polish-Jewish The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the lon ...

* Ivo Andrić, born in Austria-Hungary, ethnic Croat * Vladimir Prelog, born in Austria-Hungary, ethnic Croat

Born abroad

Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel (, born Eliezer Wiesel ''Eliezer Vizel''; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored Elie Wiesel b ...

Hungarian-Jewish The history of the Jews in Hungary dates back to at least the Kingdom of Hungary, with some records even predating the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895 CE by over 600 years. Written sources prove that Jewish communities lived i ...

, born in Sighet, Kingdom of Romania * Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, parents from the Kingdom of Hungary, father ethnic Slovak from Büdöskő, mother ethnic Hungarian from Debrecen * Milton Friedman, Hungarian-Jewish parents, from

Beregszász Berehove ( uk, Берегове; hu, Beregszász) is a city located in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) in western Ukraine, near the border with Hungary. It is the cultural centre of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine. Serving as the administrativ ...

, Kingdom of Hungary * Louise Glück,Hungarian-Jewish father (parents from

Érmihályfalva Valea lui Mihai (; hu, Érmihályfalva) is a town in Bihor County, Crișana, Romania. Geography It is located around 66 km north-east of Oradea, 9 km from the Hungarian border in Bihor County, Crișana, Romania. History In 1312, und ...

, Kingdom of Hungary) * George Stigler, mother ethnic Hungarian from the Kingdom of Hungary *

Hugh David Politzer Hugh David Politzer (; born August 31, 1949) is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gro ...

, Hungarian-Jewish, father from Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary Mother appears to be hungarian to since there are a lot of hungarian names in her family. Tamar Diamant

Nominees

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Katalin Karikó Katalin Karikó ( hu, Karikó Katalin, ; born 17 January 1955) is a Hungarian-American biochemist who specializes in RNA-mediated mechanisms. Her research has been the development of in vitro- transcribed mRNA for protein therapies. She co-fo ...

, Physiology or Medicine , ...

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