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List of Swiss Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prize
Laureates by field
Field Number of recipients
Physics
7
Chemistry
7
Physiology or Medicine
8
Literature
2
Peace
3
Economic Sciences
0

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences[nb 1],[1] instituted by Alfred Nobel's last will, which specified that a part of his fortune be used to create the prizes. Each laureate (recipient) receives a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money, which is decided annually by the Nobel Foundation.[2] They are widely recognized as one of the most prestigious honours awarded in the aforementioned fields.[3]

First instituted in 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to a total of 965 individuals and 27 organizations as of 2023.[4] Among them, 27 Swiss nationals have been honored with the Nobel Prize.[nb 2] Additionally, four laureates acquired Swiss citizenship after the award: Wolfgang Pauli was naturalized, while Kofi Annan, Max Theiler, and Jack Steinberger were granted honorary citizenship.

Ten organizations headquartered in Switzerland have received the Nobel Prize for Peace. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been awarded twice, and the International Committee of the Red Cross three times. Four of these organizations were also founded in Switzerland, and they all have their headquarters in Geneva, a city hosting more than 40 international organizations and 750 non-governmental organizations.[7]

The first Nobel Prize for Peace, awarded in 1901, went to the Swiss humanitarian Henry Dunant. The latest Swiss laureates are Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019. The 27 prizes are distributed as follows: eight for medicine, seven for chemistry, seven for physics, three for peace, and two for literature. No Swiss national has yet received a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Switzerland is among the countries with the highest number of Nobel laureates, both in total and per capita.[8][9] Several factors have been suggested as possible explanation, including large public funding for research,[10] the presence of highly ranked universities such as ETH Zürich and EPFL,[11] and the neutrality of Switzerland in the two World Wars, which attracted scientists from abroad.[9] The Nobel Prize has also been often recognized as being biased towards Western countries.[12][13][14] According to Nobel laureate Werner Arber, the large number of awards to Swiss nationals is "likely a statistical anomaly".[9]

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  10. ^ "Wie viel Geld steckt die Schweiz in die Forschung und Entwicklung?". Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) (in German). 23 September 2021. Archived from the original on 5 December 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  11. ^ "Deshalb bringt die Schweiz so viele Nobelpreisträger hervor". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 8 October 2019. Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  12. ^ "How the Nobel Prize has favoured white western men for more than 100 years". The Telegraph. 8 October 2014. Archived from the original on 27 March 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  13. ^ Sample, Ian; Devlin, Hannah (7 October 2019). "What's the point of Nobel prizes?". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  14. ^ "Is the Nobel Prize on Its Way to Being Outdated?". The Swaddle. 9 October 2019. Archived from the original on 23 March 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.


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