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Лауреаты Нобелевской Премии: Самые Почитаемые Умы

The Nobel Prize has honored the most consequential minds of the modern era since 1901. These 58 profiles are geniuses who changed medicine, physics, literature, peace, and economics.

Aage Niels Bohr

Aage Niels Bohr

A Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Mottelson and James Rainwater

Abdus Salam

Abdus Salam

Pakistani theoretical physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics

Adragon Eastwood De Mello

Adragon Eastwood De Mello

IQ 185

Child prodigy who graduated from the University of California with a degree in computational mathematics in 1988, at age

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

A genius New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. He is considered to be the greates

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

IQ 170

An American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman best known for his novels For Whom the Bell Tolls, A

George de Hevesy

George de Hevesy

A Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for the development of radioactive tracers to study chemi

George Wald

George Wald

An American scientist who studied pigments in the retina. His findings helped to determine how genetics influence the co

Giulio Natta

Giulio Natta

An Italian chemist and Nobel laureate

Glenn T. Seaborg

Glenn T. Seaborg

An American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned

Harold Urey

Harold Urey

An American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the d

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

IQ 175

A Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate who liquefied helium for the first time in 1908.

Hendrik Lorentz

Hendrik Lorentz

IQ 180

A Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman

Hermann Staudinger

Hermann Staudinger

A German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers

Howard Florey

Howard Florey

An Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize for his role in the development of penicillin.

Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine

IQ 170

A physical chemist and Nobel laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility

Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov

IQ 180

A Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning.

John Cockcroft

John Cockcroft

A British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus

John Eccles (neurophysiologist)

John Eccles (neurophysiologist)

An Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on t

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

IQ 180

A British scientist who received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations of the densities of the most imp

John Bardeen

John Bardeen

IQ 180

An American engineer and physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

IQ 180

An American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of par

Joseph John Thomson

Joseph John Thomson

IQ 180

A British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron

Karl Landsteiner

Karl Landsteiner

An Austrian biologist, physician, and immunologist who distinguished the main blood groups in 1900.

Lawrence Bragg

Lawrence Bragg

An Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915.

Lev Landau

Lev Landau

A Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.

Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling

IQ 190

An American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator

Louis de Broglie

Louis de Broglie

IQ 180

A French physicist and aristocrat who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory.

Luis Walter Alvarez

Luis Walter Alvarez

An American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for the developme

Marie Curie

Marie Curie

IQ 180

A Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

Maurice Wilkins

Maurice Wilkins

A New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysi

Max Planck

Max Planck

IQ 190

A German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.

Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman

IQ 155

An American economist who is widely regarded as one of the best economists of the 20th century by many

Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr

IQ 180

A Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the

Paul Dirac

Paul Dirac

IQ 190

An English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century.

Percy Williams Bridgman

Percy Williams Bridgman

IQ 185

An American physicist who received the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.

Pyotr Kapitsa

Pyotr Kapitsa

A leading Soviet physicist, engineer, and Nobel laureate, best known for his work in low-temperature physics.

Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

An American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.

Robert Koch

Robert Koch

IQ 155

A German physician and microbiologist regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Robert Andrews Millikan

IQ 175

An American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementar

Roger Wolcott Sperry

Roger Wolcott Sperry

Split-brain research and Chemoaffinity hypothesis

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

A Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist who was the first person of Spanish origin to win the Noble Prize

Selman Waksman

Selman Waksman

Russian Empire-born Jewish-American inventor, biochemist, and microbiologist whose research led to the creation of the f

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

IQ 170

An Indian-American astrophysicist who spent his professional life in the United States.

Susumu Tonegawa

Susumu Tonegawa

A Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987, for his discovery

Walther Nernst

Walther Nernst

IQ 175

Third Law of Thermodynamics

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

IQ 180

German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Wilhelm Ostwald

IQ 190

A Baltic German chemist and philosopher who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his scientific contributio

William Shockley

William Shockley

IQ 175

An American physicist and inventor who won the Nobel Prize for researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the t

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

IQ 170

An English-language Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Pauli

IQ 175

An Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics.

Tu Youyou

Tu Youyou

a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist who discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat mala

James Chadwick

James Chadwick

A British physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron

Elias James Corey

Elias James Corey

Retrosynthetic analysis

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

An American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

Tawakkol Karman

Tawakkol Karman

A Yemeni Nobel Laureate, journalist, politician, and human rights activist

Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi

A Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Alice Munro

Alice Munro

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

the life and legacy of Octavio Paz, a Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet.

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Часто задаваемые вопросы

Who won the Nobel Prize first?

Wilhelm Röntgen won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for discovering X-rays.

Who won the most Nobel Prizes?

Marie Curie won two (Physics 1903, Chemistry 1911) and Linus Pauling won two (Chemistry 1954, Peace 1962) in different categories.

Which country has the most Nobel laureates?

The United States leads with 400+ Nobel laureates, followed by the United Kingdom (~140) and Germany (~110).

Who was the youngest Nobel winner?

Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17.

How many women have won Nobel Prizes?

As of 2024, 65 women have won Nobel Prizes, with Marie Curie the first in 1903.