List of Danish Nobel laureates

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This is a list of Danish Nobel laureates. Since the Nobel Prize was established per the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895, 14 of the prize winners have been from Denmark. The first Danish Nobel laureate was Niels Ryberg Finsen, who won a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1903 for his work on using light therapy to treat diseases. The most recent Danish Nobel Prize winner was Morten Meldal who won the prize in chemistry in 2022 for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry. To date, of the 14 Nobel Prizes won by Danish people, five have been for medicine, three have been for physics, three have been for literature, two have been for chemistry, and one has been for peace.[1][2][3]

Laureates[edit]

# Year Winner Field
1 1903 Niels Ryberg Finsen Medicine
2 1908 Fredrik Bajer Peace
3 & 4 1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan Literature
5 1920 August Krogh Medicine
6 1922 Niels Bohr Physics
7 1926 Johannes Fibiger Medicine
8 1943 Carl Peter Henrik Dam Medicine
9 1944 Johannes V. Jensen Literature
10 & 11 1975 Aage Bohr and Ben Roy Mottelson Physics
12 1984 Niels Kaj Jerne Medicine
13 1997 Jens Christian Skou Chemistry
14 2022 Morten Meldal Chemistry

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Nobel Laureates and Country of Birth". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 2013-09-17.
  2. ^ Nielsen, Henry; Nielsen, Keld (2001). Neighbouring Nobel: The History of Thirteen Danish Nobel Prizes. Aarhus University Press. ISBN 978-87-7288-899-6.
  3. ^ "Dansker deler Nobelpris i kemi med to amerikanere". Politiken (in Danish). 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  4. ^ "Nobel Prize Winners in Denmark – Nobel Laureates Denmark". altiusdirectory.com. Archived from the original on 2017-08-22. Retrieved 2015-10-21.
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