Canadian Nobel Laureates

Do you know who the nineteen Canadian Nobel Laureates are?

Written by Jessica Knapp

 — Posted October 6, 2015

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

Frederick Banting is the first Canadian winner of a Nobel Prize.

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"

The "Suez Crisis" found its solution when the President of the UN General Assembly, the Canadian Lester Pearson, won support for sending a UN Emergency Force to the region to separate the warring parties. This gained him the Peace Prize in 1957.
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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"

Alice Munro is a Canadian English-language writer. She is the first Canadian woman winner of a Nobel Prize.
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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"

Professor emeritus Arthur McDonald is the co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics.
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2015

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

Professor Donna Strickland is the co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics.
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2018

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

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