List of Armenian Nobel laureates
As of 2024, there are three Nobel laureates and three Nobel nominees of Armenian descent.
Laureates
Year |
Image |
Laureate |
Born |
Field |
Citation |
Ancestry
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2020
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Emmanuelle Charpentier
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1968 in France
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Chemistry
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"developed a method for high-precision genome editing."[1]
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partial ancestry (Armenian paternal grandfather)[2]
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2021
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Ardem Patapoutian
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1967 in Lebanon
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Physiology or Medicine
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"investigated how pressure is translated into nerve impulses."[3]
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full ancestry (both parents of Lebanese Armenian descent)
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2024
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Daron Acemoglu
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1967 in Turkey
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Economics
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"have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity."[4]
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full ancestry (both parents of Turkish Armenian descent)
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Dork Sahagian contributed to three of four assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former vice president Al Gore. He described his contribution as "only very minor, involving humanity’s effect on sea level rise."[5][6]
Nominations
Nominees
Image |
Nominee |
Born |
Field |
Year(s) Nominated |
Nominator(s)
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Armen Alchian
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12 April, 1914 in
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Economics
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1986
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William R. Allen[7]
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Ruben Vardanyan
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25 May, 1968 in
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR
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Peace
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2024
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Group of renowned public and political figures[8]
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Giacomo Luigi Ciamician
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27 August, 1857 in
Trieste, Austrian Empire
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Chemistry
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1905, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1919, 1921
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Icilio Guareschi (1905), Emil Fischer, Henri Moissan (1907), Emil Fischer (1908), Ludwig Wolff (1911), Ludwig Knorr (1912), Max Bamberger, Josef Maria Eder, Wilhelm Suida, Georg Vortmann, Carl Dietrich Harries (1914), Leone Pesci (1916), Giorgio Errera (1919), Camillo Golgi, Vito Volterra, Georg Vortmann (1921)[9]
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See also
References
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