Canadian Nobel Laureates

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Canadians have been honoured as Nobel Laureates since 1923 when Frederick Banting received The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of insulin.

The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, and based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and entrepreneur. Prizes can be awarded to individuals or organizations. Since Frederick Banting there have been nineteen Canadian born recipients.

The 2018 Nobel Prize co-winner for Physics is Donna Strickland, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. She is the third woman to have won the physics prize; the first being Marie Curie in 1903 and the second being Maria Goeppert Mayer in 1963.

The Candian Nobel Laureates are as follows

1923

Frederick G. Banting, Medicine
— "for the discovery of insulin"

1949

William F. Giauque, Chemistry
— "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures"

1957

Lester Bowles Pearson, Peace Prize

1966

Charles B. Huggins, Medicine
— "for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer"

1976

Saul Bellow, Literature
— "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work"

1981

David H. Hubel, Medicine
— "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system"

1983

Henry Taube, Chemistry
— "for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes"

1989

Sidney Altman, Chemistry
— "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"

1990

Richard E. Taylor, Physics
— "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics"

1992

Rudolph A. Marcus, Chemistry
— "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems"

1994

Bertram N. Brockhouse, Physics
— "for the development of neutron spectroscopy"

1996

William Vickrey, Economic Sciences
— "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"

1997

Myron S. Scholes, Economic Sciences
— "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives"

1999

Robert A. Mundell, Economic Sciences
— "for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"

2009

Willard S. Boyle, Physics
— "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor"

2011

Ralph M. Steinman, Medicine
— "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity"

2013

Alice Munro, Literature
— "master of the contemporary short story"

2015

Arthur McDonald, Physics
— "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"

2018

Donna Strickland, Physics
— "for the groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”

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All motivations listed for receiving a Nobel Prize are from The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize.