Nobel Laureates

Full Name Year Nobel Prize Citation
Alexander R. Todd 1957 Chemistry for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes
Arthur Kornberg 1959 Medicine for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid
Severo Ochoa 1959 Medicine for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid
Francis H. Crick 1962 Medicine for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material
James D. Watson 1962 Medicine for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material
Maurice H. Wilkins 1962 Medicine for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material
François Jacob 1965 Medicine for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis
André Lwoff 1965 Medicine for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis
Jacques Monod 1965 Medicine for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis
Robert W. Holley 1968 Medicine for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
Har Gobind Khorana 1968 Medicine for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
Marshall W. Nirenberg 1968 Medicine for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
Christian B. Anfinsen 1972 Chemistry for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation
Stanford Moore 1972 Chemistry for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule
William H. Stein 1972 Chemistry for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule
David Baltimore 1975 Medicine for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell
Renato Dulbecco 1975 Medicine for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell
Howard M. Temin 1975 Medicine for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell
Paul Berg 1980 Chemistry for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA
Walter  Gilbert 1980 Chemistry for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids
Frederick Sanger 1980 Chemistry for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids
Sidney Altman 1989 Chemistry for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA
J. Michael Bishop 1989 Medicine for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes
Thomas Cech 1989 Chemistry for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA
Harold E. Varmus 1989 Medicine for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes
Richard Roberts 1993 Medicine for their discoveries of split genes
Phillip Sharp 1993 Medicine for their discoveries of split genes
Sydney Brenner 2002 Medicine for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
H. Robert Horvitz 2002 Medicine for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
John E. Sulston 2002 Medicine for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
Andrew Fire 2006 Medicine for their discovery of RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA
Roger Kornberg 2006 Chemistry for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
Craig Mello 2006 Medicine for their discovery of RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi 2008 Medicine for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (an RNA virus)
Luc Montagnier 2008 Medicine for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (an RNA virus)
Elizabeth Blackburn 2009 Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase
Carol Greider 2009 Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 2009 Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
Thomas Steitz 2009 Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
Jack Szostak 2009 Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase
Ada Yonath 2009 Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
Michael Rosbash 2017 Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
Jeffrey Hall 2017 Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
Michael Young 2017 Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
Charles Rice 2020 Medicine for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus
Emmanuel Charpentier 2020 Chemistry For the development of a method for genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9)
Jennifer Doudna 2020 Chemistry For the development of a method for genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9)
Katalin Karikó 2023 Medicine for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
Victor Ambros 2024 Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation
Gary  Ruvkun 2024 Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation