Nobel Prize in Medicine: List of Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine

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Facts about the Nobel Prize in Medicine

Alfred Nobel had an active interest in medical research. Physiology or medicine was the third prize area Nobel mentioned in his will. Who won the first Nobel Prize in Medicine? In 1901, Emil von Behring was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy, particularly for its use in the treatment of diphtheria. The Medicine Prize has subsequently highlighted a number of important discoveries including penicillin, genetic engineering and blood-typing.

Who awards the Nobel Prize in Medicine? The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.

1901-2010 List of Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine

2010: Robert G. Edwards
2009: Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, Jack W. Szostak
2008: Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier
2007: Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans, Oliver Smithies
2006: Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello
2005: Barry J. Marshall, J. Robin Warren
2004: Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck
2003: Paul C. Lauterbur, Sir Peter Mansfield
2002: Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John E. Sulston
2001: Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Sir Paul M. Nurse
2000: Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel
1999: Günter Blobel
1998: Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
1997: Stanley B. Prusiner
1996: Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel
1995: Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus
1994: Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell
1993: Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A. Sharp
1992: Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs
1991: Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
1990: Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas
1989: J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus
1988: Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings
1987: Susumu Tonegawa
1986: Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini
1985: Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein
1984: Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler, César Milstein
1983: Barbara McClintock
1982: Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane
1981: Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel
1980: Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell
1979: Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield
1978: Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith
1977: Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow
1976: Baruch S. Blumberg, D. Carleton Gajdusek
1975: David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin
1974: Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade
1973: Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen
1972: Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter
1971: Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
1970: Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
1969: Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey, Salvador E. Luria
1968: Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg
1967: Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald
1966: Peyton Rous, Charles Brenton Huggins
1965: François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod
1964: Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen
1963: Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
1962: Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
1961: Georg von Békésy
1960: Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Brian Medawar
1959: Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg
1958: George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Joshua Lederberg
1957: Daniel Bovet
1956: André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards
1955: Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
1954: John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins
1953: Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann
1952: Selman Abraham Waksman
1951: Max Theiler
1950: Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip Showalter Hench
1949: Walter Rudolf Hess, Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
1948: Paul Hermann Müller
1947: Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, Bernardo Alberto Houssay
1946: Hermann Joseph Muller
1945: Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Howard Walter Florey
1944: Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser
1943: Henrik Carl Peter Dam, Edward Adelbert Doisy
1942: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1941: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1940: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1939: Gerhard Domagk
1938: Corneille Jean François Heymans
1937: Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt
1936: Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi
1935: Hans Spemann
1934: George Hoyt Whipple, George Richards Minot, William Parry Murphy
1933: Thomas Hunt Morgan
1932: Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian
1931: Otto Heinrich Warburg
1930: Karl Landsteiner
1929: Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
1928: Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
1927: Julius Wagner-Jauregg
1926: Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
1925: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1924: Willem Einthoven
1923: Frederick Grant Banting, John James Rickard Macleod
1922: Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof
1921: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1920: Schack August Steenberg Krogh
1919: Jules Bordet
1918: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1917: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1916: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1915: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1914: Robert Bárány
1913: Charles Robert Richet
1912: Alexis Carrel
1911: Allvar Gullstrand
1910: Albrecht Kossel
1909: Emil Theodor Kocher
1908: Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich
1907: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
1906: Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1905: Robert Koch
1904: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
1903: Niels Ryberg Finsen
1902: Ronald Ross
1901: Emil Adolf von Behring

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