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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 ...
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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

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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 ...
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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 , ...


See also

* Friedrich Hayek, Austrian, grandfather from Arad, Kingdom of HungaryJosef Juraschek married magyar Elisabeth Bartha (born ca 1738) Christian Zembsch was born 1707 in Eger, Kingdom of Hungary. * Erwin Schrödinger, grandfather from
Mosonmagyaróvár Mosonmagyaróvár (; german: Wieselburg-Ungarisch Altenburg; also known by other alternative names) is a town in Győr-Moson-Sopron County in northwestern Hungary. It lies close to both the Austrian and Slovakian borders and has a population ...
, Kingdom of Hungary *
Robert F. Furchgott Robert Francis Furchgott (June 4, 1916 – May 19, 2009) was a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems. Early life and education Furchgott ...
, US-born, Hungarian-Jewish, grandfather from Sarlóska, Kingdom of Hungary, grandmother from
Nyitra Nitra (; also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the valley of the river Nitra. It is located 95 km east of Bratislava. With a population of about 78,353, it is the fifth la ...
, Kingdom of Hungary * Herta Müller, ethnic German, grandparents born in the Kingdom of Hungary * Stefan Hell, ethnic German, grandparents born in the Kingdom of Hungary *
Carl Ferdinand Cori Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) was an Austrian-American biochemist and pharmacologist born in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic) who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physio ...
Austrian, hungarian ancestry on mothers side: Grandfather: Lippich(/ Kastenholz Honorius Vilmos u3 juni 1799 in Igló,
Szepes county Szepes ( sk, Spiš; la, Scepusium, pl, Spisz, german: link=no, Zips) was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary, called Scepusium before the late 19th century. Its territory today lies in northeastern Slovakia, with a very small are ...
(now Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia) (Who married Terézia Zsitkovszky) * Osheroff US-born, Mothers father (Ondo) lutheran priest from what is now Slovakia, then
Felvidék Upper Hungary is the usual English translation of ''Felvidék'' (literally: "Upland"), the Hungarian term for the area that was historically the northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary, now mostly present-day Slovakia. The region has also been ...
, Upper Hungary ca 895-1920. * David Gross, US-born, father had ancestry from Hungary/Czechoslovakiahttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2004/gross/facts/


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