Year |
Winner |
Field |
Contribution
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1903
|
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Maria Skłodowska Curie[1]
|
Physics
|
"for their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel"
|
1905
|
|
Henryk Sienkiewicz[2]
|
Literature
|
"because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer"
|
1907
|
|
Albert A. Michelson[3]
|
Physics
|
"for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid"
|
1911
|
|
Maria Skłodowska Curie (2nd time)[4]
|
Chemistry
|
"for the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element"
|
1924
|
|
Władysław Reymont[5]
|
Literature
|
"for his great national epic, The Peasants"
|
1944
|
|
Isidor Isaac Rabi[6]
|
Physics
|
"for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei"
|
1950
|
|
Tadeusz Reichstein[7]
|
Medicine
|
"for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects"
|
1977
|
|
Andrzej Schally[8]
|
Medicine
|
"for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain"
|
1978
|
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer[9]
|
Literature
|
"for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life"
|
|
Menachem Begin[10]
|
Peace
|
"for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978"
|
1980
|
|
Czesław Miłosz[11]
|
Literature
|
"who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"
|
1981
|
|
Roald Hoffmann[12]
|
Chemistry
|
"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"
|
1983
|
|
Lech Wałęsa[13]
|
Peace
|
"founder of Solidarność; campaigner for human rights"
|
1992
|
|
Jerzy Charpak[14]
|
Physics
|
"for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber"
|
1994
|
|
Shimon Peres[15]
|
Peace
|
"for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East"
|
1995
|
|
Józef Rotblat[16]
|
Peace
|
"for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms"
|
1996
|
|
Wisława Szymborska[17]
|
Literature
|
"for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality"
|
2007
|
|
Leonid Hurwicz[18]
|
Economics
|
“for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”
|
2018
|
|
Olga Tokarczuk[19]
|
Literature
|
“for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”
|