Friday, September 16, 2011

Nobel Season Around the Corner

October, of course, is Nobel Prize Season (and other things too, I'm sure.)

But this year I decided to go all out and compile the Living Laureates.

There are 250 - and I've ranked them by category. (At least, as of September 16th.) Maybe this list will inspire folks to look up what these people have done.


Peace 30

Nelson Mandela – 1993 Age – 93 South Africa

Henry Kissinger – 1973 Age – 88 USA – Longest Holding

Shimon Peres – 1994 Age – 88 Israel

Jimmy Carter – 2002 Age – 86 USA

Elie Wiesel – 1986 Age – 82 USA

Mikhail Gorbachev – 1990 Age – 80 USSR/Russia

Adolfo Perez Esquivel – 1980 Age – 79 Argentina

Desmond Tutu – 1984 Age – 79 South Africa

The 14th Dalai Lama – 1989 Age – 76 Tibet

FW De Klerk – 1993 Age – 75 South Africa

John Hume – 1998 Age – 74 UK

Martti Athisaari – 2008 Age – 74 Finland

Kofi Annan – 2001 Age – 73 Ghana

Oscar Arias Sanchez – 1987 Age – 71 Costa Rica

Wangari Maathai – 2004 Age – 71 Kenya

Muhammad Yunus – 2006 Age – 71 Bangladesh

Mohamed ElBaradei – 2005 Age – 69 Egypt

Betty Williams – 1976 Age – 68 UK

Mairead Corrigan – 1976 Age – 67 UK

Lech Walesa – 1983 Age – 67 Poland

Ang San Suu Kyi – 1991 Age – 66 Burma

David Trimble – 1998 Age – 66 UK

Shirin Ebadi – 2003 Age – 64 Iran

Carlos Belo – 1996 Age – 63 East Timor

Al Gore – 2007 Age – 63 USA

Jose Ramos-Horta – 1996 Age – 61 East Timor

Jody Williams – 1997 Age – 60 USA

Liu Xiaobo – 2010 Age – 55 China – Shortest Holding

Rigoberta Menchu – 1992 Age – 52 Guatemala

Barack Obama – 2009 Age – 50 USA


Literature 20


Doris Lessing – 2007 Age – 91 UK

Wislawa Szymborska – 1996 Age – 88 Poland

Nadine Gordimer – 1991 Age – 87 South Africa

Dario Fo – 1997 Age – 85 Italy

Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 1982 Age – 84 Colombia – Longest Holding

Gunter Grass – 1999 Age – 83 Germany

Derek Walcott – 1992 Age – 81 St. Lucia

Imre Kertesz – 2002 Age – 81 Poland

Toni Morrison – 1993 Age – 80 USA

V.S. Naipaul – 2001 Age – 79 UK

Wole Soyinka – 1986 Age – 77 Nigeria

Kenzaburo Oe – 1994 Age – 76 Japan

Mario Vargas Llosa – 2010 Age – 75 Peru/Spain – Shortest Holding

Seamus Heaney – 1995 Age – 72 Ireland

Gao Xingjian – 2000 Age – 71 France

J.M. Coetzee – 2003 Age – 71 South Africa

J.M.G. Le Clezio – 2008 Age – 71 France/Mauritius

Elfriede Jelinek – 2004 Age – 64 Austria

Orhan Pamuk – 2006 Age – 59 Turkey

Herta Muller – 2009 Age – 58 Germany



Physiology and Medicine 65



Rita Levi-Montalcini – 1986 Age – 102 USA/Italy

Renalto Dubecco – 1975 Age – 97 USA/Italy

Sir Andrew Huxley – 1963 Age – 93 UK

Christian de Duve – 1974 Age – 93 Belgium

Joseph Murray – 1990 Age – 92 USA

Francois Jacob – 1965 Age – 91 France

Donnall Thomas – 1990 Age – 91 USA

Edmond Fischer – 1992 Age – 91 USA/Switzerland

Har Khorana – 1968 Age – 89 USA

Stanley Cohen – 1986 Age – 88 USA

Arvid Carlsson – 2000 Age – 88 Sweden

Roger Guillemen – 1977 Age – 87 USA

Torsten Wiesel – 1981 Age – 87 Sweden

Oliver Smithies – 2007 Age – 86 USA

David Hubel – 1981 Age – 85 USA

Paul Greengard – 2000 – Age 85 USA

Robert Edwards – 2010 Age – 85 UK – Shortest Holding

Andrew Schally – 1977 Age – 84 USA

Sydney Brenner – 2002 Age – 84 UK

James Watson – 1962 Age – 83 USA – Longest Holding

Gerald Edelman – 1972 Age – 82 USA

Werner Arber – 1978 Age – 82 Switzerland

Eric Kandel – 2000 Age – 81 USA

Luc Montagnier – 2008 Age – 79 France

Bengt Samuelsson – 1982 Age – 77 Sweden

Sir Peter Mansfield – 2003 Age – 77 UK

Michael Bishop – 1989 Age – 75 USA

Ferid Murad – 1998 Age – 75 USA

Gunter Blobel – 1999 Age – 75 USA

Harald zur Hausen – 2008 Age – 75 Germany

Robin Warren – 2005 Age – 74 Australia

David Baltimore – 1975 Age – 73 USA

Mario Capecchi – 2007 Age – 73 USA

Susumu Tonegawa – 1987 Age – 72 Japan

Joseph Goldstein – 1985 Age – 71 USA

Harold Varmus – 1989 Age – 71 USA

Leland Hartwell – 2001 Age – 71 UK

Hamilton Smith – 1978 Age – 70 USA

Michael Brown – 1985 Age – 70 USA

Alfred Gilman – 1994 Age – 70 USA

Peter Doherty – 1996 Age – 70 Australia

Louis Ignarro – 1998 Age – 70 USA

Sir Martin Evans – 2007 Age – 70 UK

Bert Sakmann – 1991 Age – 69 Germany

Stanley Prusiner – 1997 Age – 69 USA

Sir John Sulston – 2002 Age – 69 UK

Sir Richard Roberts – 1993 Age 68 UK

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard – 1995 Age – 68 Germany

Sir Tim Hunt – 2001 Age – 68 UK

Erwin Neher – 1991 Age – 67 Germany

Phillip Sharp – 1993 Age – 67 USA

Rolf Zinkernagel – 1996 Age – 67 Switzerland

Richard Axel – 2004 Age – 65 USA

Eric Weischaus – 1995 Age – 64 USA

Robert Horvitz – 2002 Age – 64 USA

Linda Buck – 2004 Age – 64 USA

Francoise Barre-Sinoussi – 2008 Age – 64 France

Sir Paul Nurse – 2001 Age – 62 UK

Elizabeth Blackburn – 2009 Age – 62 USA/Australia

Barry Marshall – 2005 Age – 59 Australia

Jack Szostak – 2009 Age – 58 USA

Andrew Fire – 2006 Age – 52 USA

Craig Mello – 2006 Age – 50 USA

Carol Greider – 2009 Age – 50 USA

Chemistry 59

Sir John Cornforth – 1975 Age – 94 UK/Australia

Herbert Hauptman – 1985 Age – 94 USA

William Knowles – 2001 Age – 94 USA

Frederick Sanger – 1958, 80 Age – 93 UK – Longest Holding, Only Double Recipient

Jerome Karle – 1985 Age – 93 USA

Paul Boyer – 1997 Age – 93 USA

Jens Skou – 1997 Age – 92 Denmark

Rudolph Marcus – 1992 Age – 88 USA

Walter Kohn – 1998 Age – 88 USA

Paul Berg – 1980 Age – 85 USA

Sir Aaron Klug – 1982 Age – 85 UK

Irwin Rose – 2004 Age – 85 USA

Manfred Eigen – 1967 Age 84 Germany

George Olah – 1994 Age – 84 USA/Hungary

F. Sherwood Rowland – 1995 Age – 84 USA

Elias Corey – 1990 Age – 83 USA

Osamu Shomoura – 2008 Age – 83 Japan

John Polanyi – 1986 Age – 82 Canada/Hungary

Akira Suzuki – 2010 Age – 81 Japan – Shortest Holding

Yves Chauvin – 2005 Age – 80 France

Richard Heck – 2010 Age – 80 USA – Shortest Holding

Walter Gilbert – 1980 Age – 79 USA

Dudley Herschback – 1986 Age – 79 USA

Richard Ernst – 1991 Age – 78 Switzerland

Robert Curl – 1996 Age – 78 USA

Paul Crutzen – 1995 Age – 77 Netherlands

Ei-ichi Negishi – 2010 Age – 76 Japan – Shortest Holding

Hideki Shirakawa – 2000 Age – 75 Japan

Alan Heeger – 2000 Age – 75 USA

Roald Hoffman – 1981 Age – 74 USA

Yuan Lee – 1986 Age – 74 USA

Robert Huber – 1988 Age – 74 Germany

Gerhard Ertl – 2007 Age – 74 Germany

Ryoji Noyori – 2001 Age – 73 Japan

Avram Hershko – 2004 Age- 73 Israel

Sidney Altman – 1989 Age – 72 USA/Canada

Kurt Wutrich – 2002 Age – 72 Switzerland

Ada Yonath – 2009 Age – 72 Israel

Jean-Marie Lehn – 1987 Age – 71 France

Sir Harold Kroto – 1996 Age – 71 UK

Thomas Steitz – 2009 Age – 71 USA

Sir John Walker – 1997 Age – 70 UK

Barry Sharpless – 2001 Age – 70 USA

Robert Grubbs – 2005 Age – 69 USA

Mario Molina – 1995 Age – 68 USA/Mexico

Johann Deisenhofer – 1988 Age – 67 Germany

Kary Mullis – 1993 Age – 66 USA

Richard Schrock – 2005 Age – 66 USA

Ahmed Zewail – 1999 Age – 65 USA/Egypt

Roger Kornberg – 2006 Age – 64 USA

Martin Chalfie – 2008 Age – 64 USA

Hartmut Michel – 1988 Age – 63 Germany

Thomas Cech – 1989 Age – 63 USA

Aaron Ciechanover – 2004 Age – 63 Israel

Peter Agre – 2003 Age – 62 USA

Roger Tsien – 2008 Age – 59 USA

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – 2009 Age – 59 USA

Roderick MacKinnon – 2003 Age – 55 USA

Koichi Tanaka – 2002 Age – 52 Japan


Physics 76


Charles Townes – 1964 Age – 96 USA

Norman Ramsey – 1989 Age – 96 USA

Nicolaas Bloembergen – 1981 Age – 91 USA/Netherlands

Jack Steinberger – 1988 Age – 90 USA

Yoichiro Nambu – 2008 Age – 90 USA

Leon Lederman – 1988 Age – 89 USA

Chen Yang – 1957 Age – 88 USA/China – Longest Holding

Val Fitch – 1980 Age – 88 USA

Hans Dehmelt – 1989 Age – 89 USA

Antony Hewish – 1974 Age – 87 UK

Philip Anderson – 1977 Age – 87 USA

Leo Esaki – 1973 Age – 86 Japan

Roy Glauber – 2005 Age – 86 USA

Ben Mottelson – 1975 Age – 85 USA/Denmark

Tsung-Dao Lee – 1957 Age – 84 USA/China – Longest Holding

Donald Glaser – 1960 Age – 84 USA

Karl Muller – 1987 Age – 84 Switzerland

Martin Perl – 1995 Age – 84 USA

Masatoshi Koshiba – 2002 Age – 84 Japan

Herbert Kroemer – 2000 Age – 83 USA/Germany

Alexei Abrikosov – 2003 Age – 83 USA/Russia

Rudolf Mossbauer – 1961 Age – 82 Germany

Murray Gell-Mann – 1969 Age – 82 USA

Leon Cooper – 1972 Age – 81 USA

Ivar Giaever – 1973 Age – 81 USA/Norway

Jerome Friedman – 1990 Age – 81 USA

Richard Taylor – 1990 Age – 81 Canada

Zhores Alferov – 2000 Age – 81 Russia

George Smith – 2009 Age – 81 USA

John Schrieffer – 1972 Age – 80 USA

Burton Richter – 1976 Age – 80 USA

David Lee – 1996 Age – 80 USA

Martinus Veltman – 1999 Age – 80 Netherlands

James Cronin – 1980 Age – 79 USA

Riccardo Giacconi – 2002 Age – 79 USA/Italy

Arno Penzias – 1978 Age – 78 USA

Steven Weinberg – 1979 Age 78 USA

Sheldon Glashow – 1979 Age 78 USA

Heinrich Rohrer – 1986 Age – 78 Switzerland

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji – 1997 Age – 78 France

Carlo Rubbia – 1984 Age – 77 Italy

John Hall – 2005 Age – 77 USA

Charles Kao – 2009 Age – 77 USA/Hong Kong/UK

Samuel Ting – 1976 Age – 75 USA

Robert Wilson – 1978 Age – 75 USA

Kenneth Wilson – 1982 Age – 75 USA

Robert Richardson – 1996 Age – 74 USA

Anthony Leggett – 2003 Age – 73 USA/UK

Albert Fert – 2007 Age – 73 France

Daniel Tsui – 1998 Age – 72 USA

Peter Grunberg – 2007 Age – 72 Germany

Brian Josephson – 1973 Age – 71 UK

Toshihide Maskawa – 2008 Age – 71 Japan

Joseph Taylor – 1993 Age – 70 USA

David Gross – 2004 Age – 70 USA

Theodor Hansch – 2005 Age – 69 Germany

Klaus von Klitzing – 1985 Age – 68 Germany

Makoto Kobayahsi – 2008 Age – 67 Japan

Douglass Osheroff – 1996 Age – 66 USA

George Smoot – 2006 Age – 66 USA

Gerard ‘t Hooft – 1999 Age – 65 Netherlands

John Mather – 2006 Age – 65 USA

Gerd Binning – 1986 Age – 64 Germany

Steven Chu – 1997 Age – 63 USA

William Phillips – 1997 Age – 62 USA

Horst Stormer – 1998 Age – 62 Germany

David Politzer – 2004 Age – 62 USA

Johannes Bednorz – 1987 Age – 61 Germany

Russell Hulse – 1993 Age – 60 USA

Robert Laughlin – 1998 Age – 60 USA

Carl Wieman – 2001 Age – 60 USA

Frank Wilczek – 2004 Age – 60 USA

Wolfgang Ketterle – 2001 Age – 53 Germany

Andre Geim – 2010 Age – 52 Russia/Netherlands – Shortest Holding

Eric Cornell – 2001 Age – 49 USA

Konstantin Novoselov – 2010 Age – 37 Russia/UK – Shortest Holding

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