Nobel Prize 2022 Winners List, Complete List of 2022 Nobel Prize Winners

Nobel Prize 2022 Winners List: Noble Prizes were announced from 3rd October 2022 till 10th October. Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award. Check the 2022 Nobel Prize Winners list below.

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Noble Prize 2022

The announcement of the Noble Prize 2022 took place on October 3, 2022, and continued till October 10, 2022. The Noble Prize 2022 winners received a cash prize of 10,00,000 Swedish Krona. The Nobel Prize was given out for the first time in 1901, and since then, 989 laureates and organisations have received it 615 times.

In 2022, the Nobel Prizes were given to fourteen laureates for their contributions that had the most positive impact on humanity. Their research encompasses everything including war crime documentation, click chemistry, paleogenomics etc.

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Noble Prize 2022 Winners List

The recipients of the Nobel Prize 2022 are listed below. Let’s have a look at the Nobel Prize 2022 Winners List.

Nobel Prize 2022 Winners List
Nobel Prize Category	Nobel Prize Laureates	Awarded For
Nobel Prize in Physics	Alain Aspect John F Clauser Anton Zeilinger	For their work on entangled photon experiments, proving the violation of Bell inequalities, and developing the field of quantum information science.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry	Carolyn Bertozzi Morten Meldal Barry Sharpless	For the establishment of the foundations of click chemistry & bioorthogonal chemistry and also took chemistry into the functionalism era.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	Svante Paabo	For his research on the extinct hominid genomes and the evolution of humans.
Nobel Prize in Literature	Annie Ernaux	For the bravery and clinical acuity with which she reveals the origins, estrangements, and collective restrictions of personal memory.
Noble Prize in Economics	Ben S. Bernanke Douglas W. Diamond Philip H. Dybvig	For research on financial crises and banks.
Nobel Peace Prize	Ales Bialiatski Memorial Human Rights Organization (Russia) Center for Civil Liberties Human Rights Organisation (Ukrainian)	For encouraging the right to criticise power and protect the citizen’s fundamental rights.

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Nobel Prize List From 1901 to 2022

Nobel Prize	Number of Prizes	Number of Laureates	Awarded to one Laureate	Shared by two Laureates	Shared by three Laureates
Physics	116	222	47	32	37
Chemistry	114	189	63	24	26
Medicine	113	225	40	34	39
Literature	115	119	111	4	–
Peace	104	110+30	69	31	3
Economic Sciences	54	92	25	20	9
Total	615	989	355	146	114

Nobel Prize Facts For UPSC

Since the beginning in 1901, there have been a few years in which no Nobel Prizes have been given. There have been 49 times in all. the majority of them during World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939-1945).
Malala Yousafzai (age 17 years then) is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate among all categories who received the peace prize in 2014 with Kailash Satyarthi.
Between 1901 and 2022 the Nobel Prize have been awarded 61 times to women.

List of Noble Prize Winners 2022

Nobel Prize 2022 Winners FAQs

Who got the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022?

Ales Bialiatski, a Belarusian human rights activist, Memorial, a Russian human rights organisation, and Center for Civil Liberties, a Ukrainian human rights organisation, share the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. The recipients of the Peace Prize stand in for civic society in their respective nations.

Who has won 3 Nobel Peace Prizes?

The International Committee of the Red Cross received three times Nobel Peace Prize awards in 1917, 1944, and 1963, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees received two times in 1954 and 1981.

Who won the Indian Nobel Prize in 2022?

Pratik Sinha and Mohammad Zubair, two Indians were shortlisted as contenders for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022.

Who won the Nobel Prize twice?

John Bardeen received the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, and Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Marie Curie (Physics and Chemistry) and Linus Pauling (Chemistry and Peace) are two laureates who have received two awards, although not in the same category.

Who has refused a Nobel Prize?

The Nobel Prize in Literature, which was presented to the 59-year-old author Jean-Paul Sartre in October 1964, was rejected. He claimed that he had always declined to be awarded official titles and did not want to institutionalise.

Who was the 1st Nobel Prize winner?

In 1901, the Nobel Prizes were started. Frédéric Passy of France and Jean Henry Dunant of Switzerland shared the peace prize that year.

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