UNITED STATES NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
(41% of world total, 50% of world total in the sciences, medicine, and economics)

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The following table contains a listing of US Nobel Prize winners as of 2024, using the definition of nationality employed by the Nobel Foundation (citizenship at the time of award).
There have been a total of 407 such awards to 404 individuals (John Bardeen having won twice in physics, K. Barry Sharpless having won twice in chemistry, and Linus Pauling having won once each in chemistry and peace).


CHEMISTRY (85 awards)
ECONOMIC SCIENCES (73 awards)
LITERATURE (13 awards)

1914: Theodore W. Richards
1932: Irving Langmuir
1934: Harold C. Urey
1946: John H. Northrop
1946: Wendell M. Stanley
1946: James B. Sumner
1949: William F. Giauque
1951: Glenn T. Seaborg
1951: Edwin M. McMillan
1954: Linus Pauling
1955: Vincent du Vigneaud
1960: Willard F. Libby
1961: Melvin Calvin
1965: Robert B. Woodward

1966: Robert S. Mulliken
1968: Lars Onsager
1972: Christian Anfinsen
1972: Stanford Moore
1972: William H. Stein
1974: Paul J. Flory
1976: William Lipscomb
1979: Herbert C. Brown
1980: Paul Berg
1980: Walter Gilbert
1981: Roald Hoffmann
1983: Henry Taube
1984: Bruce Merrifield
1985: Jerome Karle
1985: Herbert A. Hauptman
1986: Yuan T. Lee

1986: Dudley R. Herschbach
1987: Charles J. Pedersen
1987: Donald J. Cram
1989: Sidney Altman (also Canada)
1989: Thomas R. Cech
1990: Elias James Corey
1992: Rudolph A. Marcus
1993: Kary B. Mullis
1994: George A. Olah
1995: Mario J. Molina
1995: F. Sherwood Rowland
1996: Robert F. Curl Jr.

1996: Richard E. Smalley
1997: Paul D. Boyer
1998: Walter Kohn
1999: Ahmed Zewail (also Egypt)
2000: Alan G. MacDiarmid
2000: Alan Heeger
2001: K. Barry Sharpless
2001: William S. Knowles
2002: John B. Fenn
2003: Peter Agre
2003: Roderick MacKinnon
2004: Irwin Rose
2005: Robert H. Grubbs
2005: Richard R. Schrock
2006: Roger D. Kornberg
2008: Martin Chalfie
2008: Roger Y. Tsien
2009: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
2009: Thomas A. Steitz
2010: Richard F. Heck
2012: Brian K. Kobilka
2012: Robert J. Lefkowitz
2013: Martin Karplus (also Austria)
2013: Michael Levitt (also Great Britain and Israel)
2013: Arieh Warshel (also Israel)
2014: Eric Betzig
2014: William E. Moerner
2015: Paul L. Modrich
2015: Aziz Sancar (also Turkey)
2016: Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
2017: Joachim Frank
2018: Frances H. Arnold
2018: George P. Smith
2019: John Goodenough
2019: M. Stanley Whittingham
2020: Jennifer Doudna
2021: David MacMillan (also Great Britain)
2022: Carolyn Bertozzi
2022: K. Barry Sharpless
2023: Moungi Bawendi
2023: Louis Brus
2024: David Baker
2024: John Jumper

1970: Paul A. Samuelson
1971: Simon Kuznets
1972: Kenneth J. Arrow
1973: Wassily Leontief
1975: Tjalling C. Koopmans
1976: Milton Friedman
1978: Herbert A. Simon
1979: Theodore W. Schultz
1980: Lawrence R. Klein
1981: James Tobin
1982: George J. Stigler
1983: Gerard Debreu
1985: Franco Modigliani
1986: James M. Buchanan Jr.
1987: Robert M. Solow
1990: Merton H. Miller
1990: William F. Sharpe
1990: Harry M. Markowitz
1992: Gary S. Becker
1993: Douglass C. North
1993: Robert W. Fogel
1994: John C. Harsanyi
1994: John F. Nash Jr.
1995: Robert E. Lucas Jr.
1996: William Vickrey
1997: Robert C. Merton
1997: Myron S. Scholes
2000: James J. Heckman
2000: Daniel L. McFadden
2001: A. Michael Spence
2001: Joseph E. Stiglitz
2001: George A. Akerlof
2002: Vernon L. Smith
2002: Daniel Kahneman (also Israel)
2003: Robert F. Engle
2004: Edward C. Prescott
2005: Robert J. Aumann (also Israel)
2005: Thomas C. Schelling
2006: Edmund S. Phelps
2007: Leonid Hurwicz
2007: Eric Maskin
2007: Roger Myerson
2008: Paul Krugman
2009: Elinor Ostrom
2009: Oliver E. Williamson
2010: Peter A. Diamond
2010: Dale T. Mortensen
2011: Thomas J. Sargent
2011: Christopher A. Sims
2012: Alvin E. Roth
2012: Lloyd S. Shapley
2013: Eugene F. Fama
2013: Lars Peter Hansen
2013: Robert J. Shiller
2015: Angus Deaton (also Great Britain)
2016: Oliver Hart
2017: Richard H. Thaler
2018: William D. Nordhaus
2018: Paul Romer
2019: Abhijit Banerjee
2019: Esther Duflo
2019: Michael Kremer
2020: Paul Milgrom
2020: Robert B. Wilson, Jr.
2021: Joshua Angrist (also Israel)
2021: David Card (also Canada)
2021: Guido Imbens (also Netherlands)
2022: Ben Bernanke
2022: Douglas Diamond
2022: Philip Dybvig
2023: Claudia Goldin
2024: Daron Acemoğlu (also Turkey)
2024: Simon Johnson (also Great Britain)


1930: Sinclair Lewis
1936: Eugene O'Neill
1938: Pearl Buck
1949: William Faulkner
1954: Ernest Hemingway
1962: John Steinbeck
1976: Saul Bellow
1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer
1980: Czeslaw Milosz (also Poland)
1987: Joseph Brodsky
1993: Toni Morrison

2016: Bob Dylan
2020: Louise Glück
PEACE (22 awards)
PHYSICS (100 awards)
PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE (114 awards)

1906: Theodore Roosevelt
1912: Elihu Root
1919: Woodrow Wilson
1925: Charles G. Dawes
1929: Frank B. Kellogg
1931: Jane Addams
1931: Nicholas Murray Butler
1945: Cordell Hull
1946: Emily Greene Balch
1946: John R. Mott
1950: Ralph Bunche
1953: George C. Marshall
1962: Linus Pauling
1964: Martin Luther King
1970: Norman Borlaug
1973: Henry Kissinger
1986: Elie Wiesel
1997: Jody Williams
2002: Jimmy Carter

2007: Albert Gore
2009: Barack  H. Obama
2021: Maria Ressa (also Philippines)

1907: Albert A. Michelson
1923: Robert A. Millikan
1927: Arthur H. Compton
1936: Carl D. Anderson
1937: Clinton Davisson
1939: Ernest Lawrence
1943: Otto Stern

1944: Isidor Isaac Rabi
1946: Percy W. Bridgman
1952: Felix Bloch
1952: E. M. Purcell
1955: Willis E. Lamb
1955: Polykarp Kusch
1956: John Bardeen
1956: Walter H. Brattain
1956: William B. Shockley
1959: Emilio Segrè
1959: Owen Chamberlain
1960: Donald A. Glaser
1961: Robert Hofstadter
1963: Eugene Wigner
1963: Maria Goeppert-Mayer
1964: Charles H. Townes
1965: Richard P. Feynman
1965: Julian Schwinger
1967: Hans Bethe
1968: Luis Alvarez
1969: Murray Gell-Mann
1972: John Bardeen
1972: Leon N. Cooper
1972: Robert Schrieffer
1973: Ivar Giaever
1975: James Rainwater
1976: Burton Richter
1976: Samuel C. C. Ting
1977: John H. van Vleck
1977: Philip W. Anderson
1978: Arno Penzias
1978: Robert Woodrow Wilson
1979: Sheldon Glashow
1979: Steven Weinberg
1980: James Cronin
1980: Val Fitch
1981: Arthur L. Schawlow
1981: Nicolaas Bloembergen
1982: Kenneth G. Wilson
1983: Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
1983: William A. Fowler
1988: Melvin Schwartz
1988: Jack Steinberger
1988: Leon M. Lederman
1989: Hans G. Dehmelt
1989: Norman F. Ramsey
1990: Jerome I. Friedman
1990: Henry W. Kendall
1993: Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
1993: Russell A. Hulse
1994: Clifford G. Shull
1995: Martin L. Perl
1995: Frederick Reines
1996: Douglas D. Osheroff
1996: Robert C. Richardson
1996: David M. Lee
1997: Steven Chu
1997: William D. Phillips
1998: Robert B. Laughlin
1998: Daniel C. Tsui
2000: Jack S. Kilby
2001: Carl E. Wieman
2001: Eric A. Cornell
2002: Riccardo Giacconi
2002: Raymond Davis Jr.
2003: Alexei A. Abrikosov (also Russia)
2004: David J. Gross
2004: H. David Politzer
2004: Frank Wilczek
2005: Roy J. Glauber
2005: John L. Hall
2006: John C. Mather
2006: George F. Smoot
2008: Yoichiro Nambu
2009: Willard S. Boyle (also Canada)
2009: Charles K. Kao (also UK)
2009: George E. Smith
2011: Saul Perlmutter
2011: Adam G. Riess
2011: Brian P. Schmidt (also Australia)
2012: David J. Wineland
2014: Shuji Nakamura (also Japan)
2016: J. Michael Kosterlitz
2016: David J. Thouless (also UK)
2017: Barry C. Barish
2017: Kip S. Thorne
2017: Rainer Weiss
2018: Arthur Ashkin
2019: James Peebles
2020: Andrea Ghez
2021: Syukuro Manabe
2022: John Clauser
2024: John Hopfield

1933: Thomas H. Morgan
1934: George R. Minot
1934: William P. Murphy
1934: George H. Whipple
1943: Edward A. Doisy
1944: Joseph Erlanger
1944: Herbert S. Gasser
1946: Hermann J. Muller
1947: Gerty Cori
1947: Carl Cori
1950: Philip S. Hench
1950: Edward C. Kendall
1952: Selman A. Waksman
1953: Fritz Lipmann
1954: Frederick C. Robbins
1954: John F. Enders
1954: Thomas H. Weller
1956: Dickinson W. Richards
1956: André F. Cournand
1958: Edward Tatum
1958: Joshua Lederberg
1958: George Beadle
1959: Severo Ochoa
1959: Arthur Kornberg
1961: Georg von Békésy
1962: James Watson
1964: Konrad Bloch
1966: Charles B. Huggins
1966: Peyton Rous
1967: Haldan K. Hartline
1967: George Wald
1968: Robert W. Holley
1968: H. Gobind Khorana
1968: Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969: Salvador E. Luria
1969: Max Delbrück
1969: Alfred D. Hershey
1970: Julius Axelrod
1971: Earl W. Sutherland: Jr.
1972: Gerald M. Edelman
1974: George E. Palade
1975: Renato Dulbecco
1975: Howard M. Temin
1975: David Baltimore
1976: D. Carleton Gajdusek
1976: Baruch S. Blumberg
1977: Rosalyn Yalow
1977: Roger Guillemin
1977: Andrew V. Schally
1978: Hamilton O. Smith
1978: Daniel Nathans
1979: Allan M. Cormack
1980: George D. Snell
1980: Baruj Benacerraf
1981: Roger W. Sperry
1981: David H. Hubel
1983: Barbara McClintock
1985: Michael S. Brown
1985: Joseph L. Goldstein
1986: Stanley Cohen
1986: Rita Levi-Montalcini (also Italy)
1988: George H. Hitchings
1988: Gertrude B. Elion
1989: J. Michael Bishop
1989: Harold E. Varmus
1990: Joseph E. Murray
1990: E. Donnall Thomas
1992: Edmond H. Fischer (also Switzerland)
1992: Edwin G. Krebs
1993: Phillip A. Sharp
1994: Alfred G. Gilman
1994: Martin Rodbell
1995: Eric F. Wieschaus
1995: Edward B. Lewis
1997: Stanley B. Prusiner
1998: Ferid Murad
1998: Robert F. Furchgott
1998: Louis J. Ignarro
1999: Günter Blobel
2000: Paul Greengard
2000: Eric R. Kandel
2001: Leland H. Hartwell
2002: H. Robert Horvitz
2003: Paul C. Lauterbur
2004: Richard Axel
2004: Linda Buck
2006: Andrew Z. Fire
2006: Craig C. Mello
2007: Mario Capecchi
2007: Oliver Smithies
2009: Elizabeth H. Blackburn (also Australia)
2009: Carol W. Greider
2009: Jack W. Szostak
2011: Bruce A. Beutler
2011: Ralph M. Steinman (also Canada)
2013: James E. Rothman
2013: Randy W. Schekman
2013: Thomas C Südhof (also Germany)
2014: John O'Keefe
2015: William C. Campbell (also Ireland)
2017: Jeffrey C. Hall
2017: Martin Rosbash
2017: Michael W. Young
2018: James P. Allison
2019: William Kaelin: Jr.
2019: Gregg Semenza
2020: Harvey Alter
2020: Charles Rice
2021: David Julius
2021: Ardem Patapoutian
2023: Katalin Karikó
2023: Drew Weissman
2024: Victor Ambros
2024: Gary Ruvkun

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