List Of Chinese Nobel Laureates

The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. An associated prize, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was instituted by Sweden's central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.

Following is a list of Nobel laureates who have been citizens of the Republic of China or the People's Republic of China and of overseas birth.

Chinese citizens

Citizens of   Republic of China [Taiwan]

The following are the Nobel laureates who are or were citizens of Republic of China (currently capital in Taipei City) at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Year	Laureate	Chinese name	English name	Category	Life	Rationale	Place of Birth
1957		楊振寧	Yang Chen-Ning	Physics	1922–	"for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"	Hefei, Anhui, China
		李政道	Tsung-Dao Lee	Physics	1926–		Shanghai, China
1976		丁肇中	Samuel C. C. Ting	Physics	1936–	"for pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind."	Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Dual-citizen of   United States and   Republic of China
1986		李遠哲	Yuan T. Lee	Chemistry	1936–	"for contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".	Shinchiku City, Shinchiku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan

Citizens of   People's Republic of China

The following are the Nobel laureates who were citizens of People's Republic of China at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Year	Laureate	Chinese name	English name	Category	Life	Rationale	Place of Birth
2010		刘晓波	Liu Xiaobo	Peace	1955–2017	"for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".	Changchun, Jilin, China
2012		莫言	Mo Yan	Literature	1955–	"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".	Gaomi, Shandong, China
2015		屠呦呦	Tu Youyou	Physiology or Medicine	1930–	"for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria".	Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Chinese diaspora

Year	Laureate	Chinese name	English name	Category	Life	Rationale	Place of Birth
1976		丁肇中	Samuel C. C. Ting	Physics	1936–	"for pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"	Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
1997		朱棣文	Steven Chu	Physics	1948–	"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light".	St. Louis, Missouri, United States
1998		崔琦	Daniel C. Tsui	Physics	1939–	"for discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"	Pingdingshan, Henan, China
2000		高行健	Gao Xingjian	Literature	1940–	"for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama".	Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
2008		錢永健	Roger Y. Tsien	Chemistry	1952–2016	"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"	New York City, New York, United States
2009		高錕	Charles K. Kao	Physics	1933–2018	"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"	Shanghai, China

Tibetan

The following are the Nobel laureates who were of uncertain citizenship at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

Year	Laureate			Category	Life	Rationale	Place of Birth
1989		བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་	14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)	Peace	1935–	"for advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people."	Taktser, Qinghai, China

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