Nobel Prize Laureate Ages by Category and Country (1901–2025)

Ages, categories, genders, and birth countries of 995 Nobel Prize laureates from 1901 to 2025.
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1 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff male 1852 the Netherlands 1901 Chemistry 1 49
2 Sully Prudhomme male 1839 France 1901 Literature 1 62
3 Frédéric Passy male 1822 France 1901 Peace 1/2 79
4 Jean Henry Dunant male 1828 Switzerland 1901 Peace 1/2 73
5 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen male 1845 Prussia 1901 Physics 1 56
6 Emil Adolf von Behring male 1854 Prussia 1901 Physiology or Medicine 1 47
7 Hermann Emil Fischer male 1852 Prussia 1902 Chemistry 1 50
8 Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen male 1817 Schleswig 1902 Literature 1 85
9 Charles Albert Gobat male 1843 Switzerland 1902 Peace 1/2 59
10 Élie Ducommun male 1833 Switzerland 1902 Peace 1/2 69
11 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz male 1853 the Netherlands 1902 Physics 1/2 49
12 Pieter Zeeman male 1865 the Netherlands 1902 Physics 1/2 37
13 Ronald Ross male 1857 India 1902 Physiology or Medicine 1 45
14 Svante August Arrhenius male 1859 Sweden 1903 Chemistry 1 44
15 Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson male 1832 Norway 1903 Literature 1 71
16 William Randal Cremer male 1828 United Kingdom 1903 Peace 1 75
17 Antoine Henri Becquerel male 1852 France 1903 Physics 1/2 51
18 Marie Curie, née Skłodowska female 1867 Russian Empire 1903 Physics 1/4 36
19 Pierre Curie male 1859 France 1903 Physics 1/4 44
20 Niels Ryberg Finsen male 1860 Faroe Islands (Denmark) 1903 Physiology or Medicine 1 43
21 Sir William Ramsay male 1852 Scotland 1904 Chemistry 1 52
22 Frédéric Mistral male 1830 France 1904 Literature 1/2 74
23 José Echegaray y Eizaguirre male 1832 Spain 1904 Literature 1/2 72
24 Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt) male 1842 United Kingdom 1904 Physics 1 62
25 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov male 1849 Russia 1904 Physiology or Medicine 1 55
26 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer male 1835 Prussia 1905 Chemistry 1 70
27 Henryk Sienkiewicz male 1846 Poland 1905 Literature 1 59
28 Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau female 1843 Austrian Empire 1905 Peace 1 62
29 Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard male 1862 Hungary 1905 Physics 1 43
30 Robert Koch male 1843 Germany 1905 Physiology or Medicine 1 62
31 Henri Moissan male 1852 France 1906 Chemistry 1 54
32 Giosuè Carducci male 1835 Tuscany 1906 Literature 1 71
33 Theodore Roosevelt Jr. male 1858 USA 1906 Peace 1 48
34 Joseph John Thomson male 1856 United Kingdom 1906 Physics 1 50
35 Camillo Golgi male 1843 Italy 1906 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 63
36 Santiago Ramón y Cajal male 1852 Spain 1906 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 54
37 Eduard Buchner male 1860 Bavaria 1907 Chemistry 1 47
38 Rudyard Kipling male 1865 British India 1907 Literature 1 42
39 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta male 1833 Austrian Empire 1907 Peace 1/2 74
40 Louis Renault male 1843 France 1907 Peace 1/2 64
41 Albert Abraham Michelson male 1852 Prussia 1907 Physics 1 55
42 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran male 1845 France 1907 Physiology or Medicine 1 62
43 Ernest Rutherford male 1871 New Zealand 1908 Chemistry 1 37
44 Rudolf Christoph Eucken male 1846 East Friesland 1908 Literature 1 62
45 Fredrik Bajer male 1837 Denmark 1908 Peace 1/2 71
46 Klas Pontus Arnoldson male 1844 Sweden 1908 Peace 1/2 64
47 Gabriel Lippmann male 1845 Luxembourg 1908 Physics 1 63
48 Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov male 1845 Russian Empire 1908 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 63
49 Paul Ehrlich male 1854 Prussia 1908 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 54
50 Wilhelm Ostwald male 1853 Russian Empire 1909 Chemistry 1 56
51 Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf female 1858 Sweden 1909 Literature 1 51
52 Auguste Marie François Beernaert male 1829 Belgium 1909 Peace 1/2 80
53 Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque male 1852 France 1909 Peace 1/2 57
54 Guglielmo Marconi male 1874 Italy 1909 Physics 1/2 35
55 Karl Ferdinand Braun male 1850 Hesse-Kassel 1909 Physics 1/2 59
56 Emil Theodor Kocher male 1841 Switzerland 1909 Physiology or Medicine 1 68
57 Otto Wallach male 1847 Germany 1910 Chemistry 1 63
58 Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse male 1830 Prussia 1910 Literature 1 80
59 Johannes Diderik van der Waals male 1837 the Netherlands 1910 Physics 1 73
60 Albrecht Kossel male 1853 Mecklenburg 1910 Physiology or Medicine 1 57
61 Marie Curie, née Skłodowska female 1867 Russian Empire 1911 Chemistry 1 44
62 Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck male 1862 Belgium 1911 Literature 1 49
63 Alfred Hermann Fried male 1864 Austria 1911 Peace 1/2 47
64 Tobias Michael Carel Asser male 1838 the Netherlands 1911 Peace 1/2 73
65 Wilhelm Wien male 1864 Prussia 1911 Physics 1 47
66 Allvar Gullstrand male 1862 Sweden 1911 Physiology or Medicine 1 49
67 Paul Sabatier male 1854 France 1912 Chemistry 1/2 58
68 Victor Grignard male 1871 France 1912 Chemistry 1/2 41
69 Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann male 1862 Prussia 1912 Literature 1 50
70 Elihu Root male 1845 USA 1912 Peace 1 67
71 Nils Gustaf Dalén male 1869 Sweden 1912 Physics 1 43
72 Alexis Carrel male 1873 France 1912 Physiology or Medicine 1 39
73 Alfred Werner male 1866 France 1913 Chemistry 1 47
74 Rabindranath Tagore male 1861 India 1913 Literature 1 52
75 Henri La Fontaine male 1854 Belgium 1913 Peace 1 59
76 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes male 1853 the Netherlands 1913 Physics 1 60
77 Charles Robert Richet male 1850 France 1913 Physiology or Medicine 1 63
78 Theodore William Richards male 1868 USA 1914 Chemistry 1 46
79 Max von Laue male 1879 Germany 1914 Physics 1 35
80 Robert Bárány male 1876 Austria 1914 Physiology or Medicine 1 38
81 Richard Martin Willstätter male 1872 Germany 1915 Chemistry 1 43
82 Romain Rolland male 1866 France 1915 Literature 1 49
83 Sir William Henry Bragg male 1862 United Kingdom 1915 Physics 1/2 53
84 William Lawrence Bragg male 1890 Australia 1915 Physics 1/2 25
85 Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam male 1859 Sweden 1916 Literature 1 57
86 Henrik Pontoppidan male 1857 Denmark 1917 Literature 1/2 60
87 Karl Adolph Gjellerup male 1857 Denmark 1917 Literature 1/2 60
88 Charles Glover Barkla male 1877 United Kingdom 1917 Physics 1 40
89 Fritz Haber male 1868 Prussia 1918 Chemistry 1 50
90 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck male 1858 Schleswig 1918 Physics 1 60
91 Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler male 1845 Switzerland 1919 Literature 1 74
92 Thomas Woodrow Wilson male 1856 USA 1919 Peace 1 63
93 Johannes Stark male 1874 Germany 1919 Physics 1 45
94 Jules Bordet male 1870 Belgium 1919 Physiology or Medicine 1 49
95 Walther Hermann Nernst male 1864 Prussia 1920 Chemistry 1 56
96 Knut Pedersen Hamsun male 1859 Norway 1920 Literature 1 61
97 Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois male 1851 France 1920 Peace 1 69
98 Charles Edouard Guillaume male 1861 Switzerland 1920 Physics 1 59
99 Schack August Steenberg Krogh male 1874 Denmark 1920 Physiology or Medicine 1 46
100 Frederick Soddy male 1877 United Kingdom 1921 Chemistry 1 44
101 Anatole France male 1844 France 1921 Literature 1 77
102 Christian Lous Lange male 1869 Norway 1921 Peace 1/2 52
103 Karl Hjalmar Branting male 1860 Sweden 1921 Peace 1/2 61
104 Albert Einstein male 1879 Germany 1921 Physics 1 42
105 Francis William Aston male 1877 United Kingdom 1922 Chemistry 1 45
106 Jacinto Benavente male 1866 Spain 1922 Literature 1 56
107 Fridtjof Nansen male 1861 Norway 1922 Peace 1 61
108 Niels Henrik David Bohr male 1885 Denmark 1922 Physics 1 37
109 Archibald Vivian Hill male 1886 United Kingdom 1922 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 36
110 Otto Fritz Meyerhof male 1884 Germany 1922 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 38
111 Fritz Pregl male 1869 Austria-Hungary 1923 Chemistry 1 54
112 William Butler Yeats male 1865 Ireland 1923 Literature 1 58
113 Robert Andrews Millikan male 1868 USA 1923 Physics 1 55
114 Frederick Grant Banting male 1891 Canada 1923 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 32
115 John James Rickard Macleod male 1876 Scotland 1923 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 47
116 Władysław Stanisław Reymont male 1867 Russian Empire 1924 Literature 1 57
117 Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn male 1886 Sweden 1924 Physics 1 38
118 Willem Einthoven male 1860 Java, Dutch East Indies 1924 Physiology or Medicine 1 64
119 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy male 1865 Austrian Empire 1925 Chemistry 1 60
120 George Bernard Shaw male 1856 Ireland 1925 Literature 1 69
121 Charles Gates Dawes male 1865 USA 1925 Peace 1/2 60
122 Sir Austen Chamberlain male 1863 United Kingdom 1925 Peace 1/2 62
123 Gustav Ludwig Hertz male 1887 Germany 1925 Physics 1/2 38
124 James Franck male 1882 Germany 1925 Physics 1/2 43
125 The (Theodor) Svedberg male 1884 Sweden 1926 Chemistry 1 42
126 Grazia Deledda female 1871 Italy 1926 Literature 1 55
127 Aristide Briand male 1862 France 1926 Peace 1/2 64
128 Gustav Stresemann male 1878 Germany 1926 Peace 1/2 48
129 Jean Baptiste Perrin male 1870 France 1926 Physics 1 56
130 Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger male 1867 Denmark 1926 Physiology or Medicine 1 59
131 Heinrich Otto Wieland male 1877 Germany 1927 Chemistry 1 50
132 Henri Bergson male 1859 France 1927 Literature 1 68
133 Ferdinand Buisson male 1841 France 1927 Peace 1/2 86
134 Ludwig Quidde male 1858 Germany 1927 Peace 1/2 69
135 Arthur Holly Compton male 1892 USA 1927 Physics 1/2 35
136 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson male 1869 Scotland 1927 Physics 1/2 58
137 Julius Wagner-Jauregg male 1857 Austria 1927 Physiology or Medicine 1 70
138 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus male 1876 Germany 1928 Chemistry 1 52
139 Sigrid Undset female 1882 Denmark 1928 Literature 1 46
140 Owen Willans Richardson male 1879 United Kingdom 1928 Physics 1 49
141 Charles Jules Henri Nicolle male 1866 France 1928 Physiology or Medicine 1 62
142 Arthur Harden male 1865 United Kingdom 1929 Chemistry 1/2 64
143 Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin male 1873 Germany 1929 Chemistry 1/2 56
144 Thomas Mann male 1875 Germany 1929 Literature 1 54
145 Frank Billings Kellogg male 1856 USA 1929 Peace 1 73
146 Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie male 1892 France 1929 Physics 1 37
147 Christiaan Eijkman male 1858 the Netherlands 1929 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 71
148 Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins male 1861 United Kingdom 1929 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 68
149 Hans Fischer male 1881 Germany 1930 Chemistry 1 49
150 Sinclair Lewis male 1885 USA 1930 Literature 1 45
151 Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom male 1866 Sweden 1930 Peace 1 64
152 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman male 1888 India 1930 Physics 1 42
153 Karl Landsteiner male 1868 Austrian Empire 1930 Physiology or Medicine 1 62
154 Carl Bosch male 1874 Germany 1931 Chemistry 1/2 57
155 Friedrich Bergius male 1884 Germany 1931 Chemistry 1/2 47
156 Erik Axel Karlfeldt male 1864 Sweden 1931 Literature 1 67
157 Jane Addams female 1860 USA 1931 Peace 1/2 71
158 Nicholas Murray Butler male 1862 USA 1931 Peace 1/2 69
159 Otto Heinrich Warburg male 1883 Germany 1931 Physiology or Medicine 1 48
160 Irving Langmuir male 1881 USA 1932 Chemistry 1 51
161 John Galsworthy male 1867 United Kingdom 1932 Literature 1 65
162 Werner Karl Heisenberg male 1901 Germany 1932 Physics 1 31
163 Edgar Douglas Adrian male 1889 United Kingdom 1932 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 43
164 Sir Charles Scott Sherrington male 1857 United Kingdom 1932 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 75
165 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin male 1870 Russia 1933 Literature 1 63
166 Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane) male 1872 United Kingdom 1933 Peace 1 61
167 Erwin Schrödinger male 1887 Austria 1933 Physics 1/2 46
168 Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac male 1902 United Kingdom 1933 Physics 1/2 31
169 Thomas Hunt Morgan male 1866 USA 1933 Physiology or Medicine 1 67
170 Harold Clayton Urey male 1893 USA 1934 Chemistry 1 41
171 Luigi Pirandello male 1867 Italy 1934 Literature 1 67
172 Arthur Henderson male 1863 Scotland 1934 Peace 1 71
173 George Hoyt Whipple male 1878 USA 1934 Physiology or Medicine 1/3 56
174 George Richards Minot male 1885 USA 1934 Physiology or Medicine 1/3 49
175 William Parry Murphy male 1892 USA 1934 Physiology or Medicine 1/3 42
176 Frédéric Joliot male 1900 France 1935 Chemistry 1/2 35
177 Irène Joliot-Curie female 1897 France 1935 Chemistry 1/2 38
178 Carl von Ossietzky male 1889 Germany 1935 Peace 1 46
179 James Chadwick male 1891 United Kingdom 1935 Physics 1 44
180 Hans Spemann male 1869 Württemberg 1935 Physiology or Medicine 1 66
181 Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye male 1884 the Netherlands 1936 Chemistry 1 52
182 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill male 1888 USA 1936 Literature 1 48
183 Carlos Saavedra Lamas male 1878 Argentina 1936 Peace 1 58
184 Carl David Anderson male 1905 USA 1936 Physics 1/2 31
185 Victor Franz Hess male 1883 Austria 1936 Physics 1/2 53
186 Otto Loewi male 1873 Germany 1936 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 63
187 Sir Henry Hallett Dale male 1875 United Kingdom 1936 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 61
188 Paul Karrer male 1889 Russia 1937 Chemistry 1/2 48
189 Walter Norman Haworth male 1883 United Kingdom 1937 Chemistry 1/2 54
190 Roger Martin du Gard male 1881 France 1937 Literature 1 56
191 Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood male 1864 United Kingdom 1937 Peace 1 73
192 Clinton Joseph Davisson male 1881 USA 1937 Physics 1/2 56
193 George Paget Thomson male 1892 United Kingdom 1937 Physics 1/2 45
194 Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt male 1893 Austria-Hungary 1937 Physiology or Medicine 1 44
195 Richard Kuhn male 1900 Austria-Hungary 1938 Chemistry 1 38
196 Pearl Buck female 1892 USA 1938 Literature 1 46
197 Enrico Fermi male 1901 Italy 1938 Physics 1 37
198 Corneille Jean François Heymans male 1892 Belgium 1938 Physiology or Medicine 1 46
199 Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt male 1903 Germany 1939 Chemistry 1/2 36
200 Leopold Ruzicka male 1887 Austria-Hungary 1939 Chemistry 1/2 52
201 Frans Eemil Sillanpää male 1888 Russian Empire 1939 Literature 1 51
202 Ernest Orlando Lawrence male 1901 USA 1939 Physics 1 38
203 Gerhard Domagk male 1895 Germany 1939 Physiology or Medicine 1 44
204 George de Hevesy male 1885 Austria-Hungary 1943 Chemistry 1 58
205 Otto Stern male 1888 Germany 1943 Physics 1 55
206 Edward Adelbert Doisy male 1893 USA 1943 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 50
207 Henrik Carl Peter Dam male 1895 Denmark 1943 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 48
208 Otto Hahn male 1879 Germany 1944 Chemistry 1 65
209 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen male 1873 Denmark 1944 Literature 1 71
210 Isidor Isaac Rabi male 1898 Austria-Hungary 1944 Physics 1 46
211 Herbert Spencer Gasser male 1888 USA 1944 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 56
212 Joseph Erlanger male 1874 USA 1944 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 70
213 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen male 1895 Russian Empire 1945 Chemistry 1 50
214 Gabriela Mistral female 1889 Chile 1945 Literature 1 56
215 Cordell Hull male 1871 USA 1945 Peace 1 74
216 Wolfgang Pauli male 1900 Austria 1945 Physics 1 45
217 Ernst Boris Chain male 1906 Germany 1945 Physiology or Medicine 1/3 39
218 Sir Alexander Fleming male 1881 Scotland 1945 Physiology or Medicine 1/3 64
219 Sir Howard Walter Florey male 1898 Australia 1945 Physiology or Medicine 1/3 47
220 James Batcheller Sumner male 1887 USA 1946 Chemistry 1/2 59
221 John Howard Northrop male 1891 USA 1946 Chemistry 1/4 55
222 Wendell Meredith Stanley male 1904 USA 1946 Chemistry 1/4 42
223 Hermann Hesse male 1877 Germany 1946 Literature 1 69
224 Emily Greene Balch female 1867 USA 1946 Peace 1/2 79
225 John Raleigh Mott male 1865 USA 1946 Peace 1/2 81
226 Percy Williams Bridgman male 1882 USA 1946 Physics 1 64
227 Hermann Joseph Muller male 1890 USA 1946 Physiology or Medicine 1 56
228 Sir Robert Robinson male 1886 United Kingdom 1947 Chemistry 1 61
229 André Paul Guillaume Gide male 1869 France 1947 Literature 1 78
230 Sir Edward Victor Appleton male 1892 United Kingdom 1947 Physics 1 55
231 Bernardo Alberto Houssay male 1887 Argentina 1947 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 60
232 Carl Ferdinand Cori male 1896 Austria-Hungary 1947 Physiology or Medicine 1/4 51
233 Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz female 1896 Austria-Hungary 1947 Physiology or Medicine 1/4 51
234 Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius male 1902 Sweden 1948 Chemistry 1 46
235 Thomas Stearns Eliot male 1888 USA 1948 Literature 1 60
236 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett male 1897 United Kingdom 1948 Physics 1 51
237 Paul Hermann Müller male 1899 Switzerland 1948 Physiology or Medicine 1 49
238 William Francis Giauque male 1895 Canada 1949 Chemistry 1 54
239 William Faulkner male 1897 USA 1949 Literature 1 52
240 John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr of Brechin Mearn male 1880 Scotland 1949 Peace 1 69
241 Hideki Yukawa male 1907 Japan 1949 Physics 1 42
242 António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz male 1874 Portugal 1949 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 75
243 Walter Rudolf Hess male 1881 Switzerland 1949 Physiology or Medicine 1/2 68
244 Kurt Alder male 1902 Prussia 1950 Chemistry 1/2 48
245 Otto Paul Hermann Diels male 1876 Germany 1950 Chemistry 1/2 74
246 Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell male 1872 United Kingdom 1950 Literature 1 78
247 Ralph Bunche male 1904 USA 1950 Peace 1 46
248 Cecil Frank Powell male 1903 United Kingdom 1950 Physics 1 47
249 Edward Calvin Kendall male 1886 USA 1950 Physiology or Medicine 1/3 64
250 Philip Showalter Hench male 1896 USA 1950 Physiology or Medicine 1/3 54
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Nobel Prize Laureate Ages by Category and Country (1901–2025) — Analysis

Nobel Peace Laureates Were the Oldest Winners; Now, They're the Youngest

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Nobel laureate age at award by category 1901-2025: Peace inverted from oldest (~65) to youngest (~50), Physics/Literature/Medicine/Chemistry/Economics aged from ~55 to ~70; annotated with John B. Goodenough (97, oldest ever, Chemistry 2019), Joseph Rotblat (87, oldest Peace, 1995), and Malala Yousafzai (17, youngest ever, Peace 2014)

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