List of Asian Nobel laureates
The Nobel Prize is an annual, international prize first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and [Nobel Nobel Peace Prize|Peace Prize|Peace]. An associated prize in Economics has been awarded since 1969. Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals.
Asians have been the recipients of all six award categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. The first Asian recipient, Rabindranath Tagore, was awarded the Literature Prize in 1913. In 1930, C. V. Raman became the first Asian recipient of a Nobel Prize in one of the sciences. The most Nobel Prizes awarded to Asians in a single year was in 2014, when five Asians became laureates. The most recent Asian laureates, Japanese scientists Shimon Sakaguchi and Susumu Kitagawa, and Jordanian-Palestinian scientist Omar M. Yaghi, were awarded their prize in 2025.
To date, there have been sixty-seven Asian winners of the Nobel Prize, including thirty-two Japanese, fourteen [List of List of Israeli Nobel laureates|Israeli Nobel laureates|Israeli], nine [List of List of Indian Nobel laureates|Indian Nobel laureates|Indian] and eight Chinese. The list does not include Russians.
Physics
As of 2021, there are 21 Asians or Asian Americans who have won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Japanese comprise the majority, with 12 laureates.| Year | Image | Laureate | Country at the time of the award | Category | Comment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1930 | Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman |  British IndiaChemistryAs of 2025, there are 22 Asians or Asian Americans who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with the Japanese comprising the most with 10 laureates.
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