List of couples awarded the Nobel Prize
The following is a list of couples who were awarded and nominated for the Nobel Prize. The latest couple to receive the Prize were Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo for Economics.
Nominations
The first couple nominated for the Nobel Prize were the American pacifists Edwin Mead and Lucia Ames Mead. They were endorsed by Samuel Train Dutton for their numerous contributions in the promotion of peace. Henceforth, other couples began getting nominated for the prestigious Swedish prize whether jointly or separately in their respective fields. Aside from the following couples with verified nominations from the Nobel Committee, there are also other couples purportedly endorsed and whose nominations are yet to be verified since the archives are revealed 50 years after, among them are Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci-Şahin, John Q. Trojanowski and Virginia Man-Yee Lee, Patrick S. Moore and Yuan Chang-Moore, John Kappler and Philippa Marrack-Kappler, Jerome Karle and Isabella Lugoski Karle, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky-Pevear, Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, Amory Lovins and Hunter Sheldon-Lovins, Ivan Suvanjieff and Dawn Engle-Suvanjieff, and Søren Johansen and Katarina Juselius-Johansen.