Nobel Prize is one of the most distinguished awards in the world that is accorded in six different categories, viz. Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economic Sciences, Physiology or Medicine and Peace Prize. Check the Nobel Prize winners 2021 list below.
Nobel Prize 2021 Winners List
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Nobel Prize Category |
Nobel Prize Winners |
Physiology or Medicine |
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian |
Physics |
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi |
Chemistry |
Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan |
Literature |
Abdulrazak Gurnah |
Peace |
Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov |
Economic Sciences |
David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens |
2021 Nobel Prize winners category wise:
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Physiology or Medicine: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 was jointly awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.
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Physics: Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was jointly awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi. One half was awarded to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming while the other half was presented to Giorgio Parisi for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.
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Chemistry: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 was jointly awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.
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Literature: Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.
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Peace: Nobel Prize in Peace 2021 was jointly awarded to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. Both of them are representatives of all journalists who stand up for this ideal in a world in which democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions.
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Economic Sciences: Nobel Prize in Economics 2021 was jointly awarded to David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens. One half was presented to David Card for his empirical contributions to labour economics while the other half was presented to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.
Nobel Prize facts
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace – the Nobel Prizes. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Learn more about the Nobel Prize laureates here.
609 Nobel Prizes
Between 1901 and 2021, the Nobel Prizes and the prize in economic sciences were awarded 609 times.
| Nobel Prize |
Number of prizes |
Number of laureates |
Awarded to one laureate |
Shared by two laureates |
Shared by three laureates |
| Physics | 115 | 219 | 47 | 32 | 36 |
| Chemistry | 113 | 186 | 63 | 24 | 25 |
| Medicine | 112 | 224 | 39 | 34 | 39 |
| Literature | 114 | 118 | 110 | 4 | – |
| Peace | 103 | 109+28 | 69 | 31 | 2 |
| Economic sciences | 53 | 89 | 25 | 20 | 8 |
| Total: | 609 | 975 | 353 | 146 | 110 |
In the statutes of the Nobel Foundation it says: “A prize amount may be equally divided between two works, each of which is considered to merit a prize. If a work that is being rewarded has been produced by two or three persons, the prize shall be awarded to them jointly. In no case may a prize amount be divided between more than three persons.”
975 Nobel Prize laureates
947 laureates* and 28 organisations have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2021. Of them, 89 are economic sciences laureates. A small number of individuals and organisations have been honoured more than once, which means that 943 unique individuals and 25 unique organisations have received the Nobel Prize in total. See Multiple Nobel Prize laureates.
Source: nobelprize.org