List of Latino and Hispanic Nobel laureates

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Nobel Prize is an annual, international prize first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. An associated prize in Economics has been awarded since 1969.[1] Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals.[2]

Latinos and Hispanics have been the recipients in five of six award categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. The first Hispanic recipient, José Echegaray, was awarded the Peace Prize in 1905 and first Latino receive the prize was Carlos Saavedra Lamas in 1936. The most recent recipient Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Literature prize in 2010.

One Latino laureate — Óscar Arias Sánchez — was president of his country when he was awarded the prize. As of 2015, 25 Nobel Prize winners have been Latinos and Hispanics.

Laureates

Year Image Laureate Country Category Comment
1904 75px José Echegaray  Spain Literature[3] First Hispanic Spanish to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
1906 75px Santiago Ramón y Cajal  Spain Physiology or Medicine[4] First Hispanic Spanish to win a Nobel Prize in Science
1922 Jacinto Benavente y Martinez.jpg Jacinto Benavente  Spain Literature
1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas.jpg Carlos Saavedra Lamas  Argentina Peace First Latino to win a Nobel Prize in Peace
1945 75px Gabriela Mistral  Chile Literature First Latino women to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
1949 Bernado Houssay.JPG Bernardo Houssay  Argentina Physiology or Medicine[5]
1956 JRJimenez.JPG Juan Ramón Jiménez  Spain Literature
1959 75px Severo Ochoa  Spain Physiology or Medicine First Hispanic to win a Nobel Prize in Science
1960 Peter Brian Medawar.jpg Peter Medawar  UK Physiology or Medicine Peter was also a Brazilian citizen, but renounced his citizenship by refusing military conscription[6][7]
1967 MiguelAngelAsturias.JPG Miguel Ángel Asturias  Guatemala Literature First Latino to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
1968 Luis Walter Alvarez 1961.jpg Luis Walter Alvarez  United States Physics First Hispanic to win a Nobel Prize in Physics[8]
1970 Luis Federico Leloir - young.jpg Luis F. Leloir  Argentina Chemistry[9]
1971 Pablo Neruda.jpg Pablo Neruda  Chile Literature
1977 Vicentealeixandre.jpg Vicente Aleixandre  Spain Literature
1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel agosto 2011.jpg Adolfo Pérez Esquivel  Argentina Peace[10]
1980 75px Baruj Benacerraf  Venezuela/ United States[11] Physiology or Medicine[11]
1982 75px Gabriel García Márquez  Colombia Literature
1982 Alfonso Garcia Robles 1981.jpg Alfonso García Robles  Mexico Peace
1984 Milstein lnp.jpg César Milstein  Argentina Physiology or Medicine[12]
1987 OscarArias.jpg Óscar Arias Sánchez  Costa Rica Peace
1989 75px Camilo José Cela  Spain Literature
1990 Paz0.jpg Octavio Paz  Mexico Literature
1992 Rigoberta Menchu Tum.JPG Rigoberta Menchú  Guatemala Peace
1995 Mario Molina 1c389 8387.jpg Mario J. Molina  Mexico Chemistry.
2010 75px Mario Vargas Llosa  Peru Literature

References

  1. ↑ "Nobel Prize" (2007), in Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed 14 November 2007, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />

    An additional award, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was established in 1968 by the Bank of Sweden and was first awarded in 1969

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  12. ↑ http://www.ulp.edu.ar/comunicacion/libros_ulp/milstein/files/search/searchtext.xml
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