Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895.

58 Recipients in Registry
2020 Years Tracked
Tier 1 Prestige Tier

Laureates & Recipients

58 in registry
2020
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Charles Rice

Top 0.01% — Titan

Virology

"For the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, which led to the development of effective antiviral treatments that have saved millions of lives."

Global H-Index: 166
James Allison

James Allison

Top 0.01% — Titan

Immunology

James Allison is a immunology specialist with an H-index of 157 at MD Anderson Cancer Center (Member). Has been publishe...

Global H-Index: 157
Tasuku Honjo

Tasuku Honjo

Top 0.01% — Titan

PD-1 Immunotherapy

Tasuku Honjo is a pd-1 immunotherapy specialist with an H-index of 175 at Kyoto University (Faculty). Has been published...

Japan H-Index: 175
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Alfred Gilman

Top 0.01% — Titan

Pharmacology

Alfred Gilman is a pharmacology specialist at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Based in United States....

United States H-Index: 133
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Allan Cormack

Top 0.01% — Titan

Medical Physics

Allan Cormack is a medical physics specialist at Tufts University. Based in Boston....

South Africa H-Index: 21
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Barbara McClintock

Top 0.01% — Titan

Genetics

Barbara McClintock is a genetics specialist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Based in Cold Spring Harbor....

United States H-Index: 43
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Baruj Benacerraf

Baruj Benacerraf

Top 1% — Elite

Immunology

Baruj Benacerraf was an immunology specialist with an H-index of 70 at Harvard Medical School. Nobel Prize 1980 for disc...

Venezuela H-Index: 70
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Bert Sakmann

Top 0.01% — Titan

Neuroscience

Bert Sakmann is a neuroscience specialist at Max Planck Institute for Medical Research. Based in Germany....

Germany H-Index: 137
0
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Charles Brenton Huggins

Top 0.01% — Titan

Urology

Charles Brenton Huggins is a urology specialist at University of Chicago. Based in Chicago....

Canada H-Index: 51
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Christiaan Eijkman

Top 1% — Elite

Medicine

Christiaan Eijkman is a medicine specialist at University of Utrecht. Based in Utrecht....

Netherlands
0
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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Top 0.01% — Titan

Developmental Biology

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard is a developmental biology specialist at Max Planck Institute for Biology. Based in Germany....

Germany H-Index: 111
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Edward Lewis

Top 0.01% — Titan

Genetics

Edward Lewis is a genetics specialist at California Institute of Technology. Based in Pasadena....

United States
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Eric Kandel

Eric Kandel

Top 0.01% — Titan

Neuroscience

Eric Kandel is a neuroscience specialist with an H-index of 180 at Columbia University. Nobel Prize 2000 for discoveries...

United States H-Index: 180
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Erwin Neher

Top 0.01% — Titan

Biophysics

Erwin Neher is a biophysics specialist at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. Based in Germany....

Germany H-Index: 129
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Ferid Murad

Ferid Murad

Top 0.01% — Titan

Pharmacology

Ferid Murad was a pharmacology specialist with an H-index of 110. Nobel Prize 1998 for discovering nitric oxide signalin...

United States H-Index: 110
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Francoise Barre-Sinoussi

Top 1% — Elite

Virology

Francoise Barre-Sinoussi is a virology specialist at Pasteur Institute. Based in Paris....

France H-Index: 85
0
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Gertrude Elion

Top 0.01% — Titan

Pharmacology

Gertrude Elion was a pharmacology specialist who developed groundbreaking drugs for leukemia, organ transplant rejection...

United States H-Index: 70
0
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Gerty Cori

Top 0.01% — Titan

Biochemistry

Gerty Cori is a biochemistry specialist at Washington University in St. Louis. Based in St. Louis....

United States H-Index: 46
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Godfrey Hounsfield

Top 0.01% — Titan

Radiology

Godfrey Hounsfield is a radiology specialist at EMI Central Research Laboratories. Based in London....

United Kingdom H-Index: 15
0
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Gregg Semenza

Top 0.01% — Titan

Genetics

Gregg Semenza is a genetics specialist at Johns Hopkins University. Based in Baltimore....

United States H-Index: 185
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Gunter Blobel

Top 0.01% — Titan

Cell Biology

Gunter Blobel is a cell biology specialist at Rockefeller University. Based in New York....

United States H-Index: 128
0
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H. Robert Horvitz

Top 0.01% — Titan

Biology

H. Robert Horvitz is a biology specialist at MIT. Based in Cambridge....

United States H-Index: 124
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Har Gobind Khorana

Har Gobind Khorana

Top 0.01% — Titan

Molecular Biology

Har Gobind Khorana was a molecular biology specialist at MIT who decoded the genetic code. Nobel Prize 1968 for interpre...

India H-Index: 60
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Howard Florey

Top 0.01% — Titan

Pathology

Howard Florey is a pathology specialist at University of Oxford. Based in Oxford....

Australia H-Index: 42
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J. Michael Bishop

Top 0.01% — Titan

Oncology

J. Michael Bishop is a oncology specialist at University of California, San Francisco. Based in United States....

United States H-Index: 125
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Jack Szostak

Top 0.01% — Titan

Genetics

Jack Szostak is a genetics specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Based in United States....

United States H-Index: 112
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James Rothman

Top 0.01% — Titan

Cell Biology

James Rothman is a cell biology specialist at Yale University. Based in United States....

United States H-Index: 110
0
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Jeffrey Hall

Top 1% — Elite

Genetics

Jeffrey Hall is a genetics specialist at University of Maine. Based in Orono....

United States H-Index: 87
0
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John O'Keefe

Top 0.01% — Titan

Neuroscience

John O'Keefe is a neuroscience specialist at University College London. Based in United States....

United States H-Index: 143
0
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John Sulston

Top 0.01% — Titan

Biology

John Sulston is a biology specialist at Wellcome Sanger Institute. Based in Cambridge....

United Kingdom H-Index: 55
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Joseph Murray

Joseph Murray

Top 0.01% — Titan

Transplant Surgery

Joseph Murray was a transplant surgery and plastic surgery specialist with an H-index of 55 at Peter Bent Brigham Hospit...

United States H-Index: 55
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Jules Hoffmann

Top 1% — Elite

Immunology

Jules Hoffmann is a immunology specialist at University of Strasbourg. Based in Strasbourg....

France H-Index: 85
0
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Leland Hartwell

Top 0.01% — Titan

Genetics

Leland Hartwell is a genetics specialist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Based in Seattle....

United States H-Index: 85
0
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Linda Buck

Top 0.01% — Titan

Neuroscience

Linda Buck is a neuroscience specialist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Based in United States....

United States H-Index: 75
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Michael Houghton

Michael Houghton

Top 0.01% — Titan

Virology

Michael Houghton is a virology specialist with an H-index of 105 at the University of Alberta. Nobel Prize 2020 for disc...

Canada H-Index: 105
0
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Michael Rosbash

Top 1% — Elite

Genetics

Michael Rosbash is a genetics specialist at Brandeis University. Based in Waltham....

United States H-Index: 121
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Michael Young

Top 1% — Elite

Genetics

Michael Young is a genetics specialist at Rockefeller University. Based in New York....

United States H-Index: 167
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Oliver Smithies

Top 0.01% — Titan

Genetics

Oliver Smithies is a genetics specialist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Based in Chapel Hill....

United Kingdom H-Index: 108
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Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich

Top 0.01% — Titan

Immunology

Paul Ehrlich was an immunology and pharmacology specialist at the Institute for Experimental Therapy in Frankfurt. Nobel...

Germany
0
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Paul Greengard

Top 0.01% — Titan

Neuroscience

Paul Greengard is a neuroscience specialist at Rockefeller University. Based in United States....

United States H-Index: 206
0
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Paul Lauterbur

Top 0.01% — Titan

Radiology

Paul Lauterbur is a radiology specialist at University of Illinois. Based in Urbana....

United States H-Index: 55
0
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Peter Mansfield

Top 0.01% — Titan

Medical Physics

Peter Mansfield is a medical physics specialist at University of Nottingham. Based in Nottingham....

United Kingdom H-Index: 108
0
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Randy Schekman

Top 0.01% — Titan

Cell Biology

Randy Schekman is a cell biology specialist at University of California, Berkeley. Based in United States....

United States H-Index: 128
0
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Richard Axel

Top 0.01% — Titan

Neuroscience

Richard Axel is a neuroscience specialist at Columbia University. Based in United States....

United States H-Index: 127
0
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Robert Furchgott

Top 0.01% — Titan

Pharmacology

Robert Furchgott is a pharmacology specialist at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Based in New York....

United States H-Index: 53
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Robert Koch

Robert Koch

Top 0.01% — Titan

Microbiology

Robert Koch was a microbiology specialist who discovered the tuberculosis and cholera bacilli. Nobel Prize 1905. Establi...

Germany
0
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Robin Warren

Top 1% — Elite

Pathology

Robin Warren is a pathology specialist at Royal Perth Hospital. Based in Perth....

Australia H-Index: 97
0
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Ronald Ross

Top 0.01% — Titan

Tropical Medicine

Ronald Ross is a tropical medicine specialist at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Based in London....

India
0
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Rosalyn Yalow

Top 0.01% — Titan

Medical Physics

Rosalyn Yalow is a medical physics specialist at Bronx VA Medical Center. Based in New York....

United States H-Index: 70
0
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Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Top 0.01% — Titan

Neuroscience

Santiago Ramon y Cajal was the father of modern neuroscience who established the neuron doctrine. Nobel Prize 1906 for w...

Spain
0
Susumu Tonegawa

Susumu Tonegawa

Top 0.01% — Titan

Immunology

Susumu Tonegawa is an immunology and neuroscience specialist with an H-index of 130 at MIT. Nobel Prize 1987 for discove...

Japan H-Index: 156
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Svante Paabo

Top 0.01% — Titan

Genetics

Svante Paabo is a genetics specialist at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Based in Leipzig....

Sweden H-Index: 160
0
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Thomas Sudhof

Top 0.01% — Titan

Neuroscience

Thomas Sudhof is a neuroscience specialist at Stanford University. Based in Germany....

Germany H-Index: 192
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Tim Hunt

Top 1% — Elite

Biochemistry

Tim Hunt is a biochemistry specialist at Francis Crick Institute. Based in London....

United Kingdom H-Index: 94
0
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Werner Forssmann

Top 0.01% — Titan

Cardiology

Werner Forssmann is a cardiology specialist at Auguste-Viktoria-Krankenhaus. Based in Bad Kreuznach....

Germany H-Index: 15
0
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William Kaelin

Top 0.01% — Titan

Oncology

William Kaelin is a oncology specialist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Based in Boston....

United States H-Index: 138
0
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Yoshinori Ohsumi

Top 0.01% — Titan

Cell Biology

Yoshinori Ohsumi is a cell biology specialist at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Based in Japan....

Japan H-Index: 117
0
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Youyou Tu

Top 1% — Elite

Pharmacology

Youyou Tu is a pharmacology specialist at China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Based in Beijing....

China H-Index: 25

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