List of Arab Nobel laureates

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]

People from the Arab countries have been the recipients in three of six award categories: Peace, Chemistry and Literature. The first Arab recipient, Anwar Sadat, was awarded the Peace Prize in 1978. The most recent recipient Tawakkol Karman was awarded to Peace prizes in 2011. One Arab laureate —Anwar Sadat — was president of his country when he was awarded the prize.

Laureates

Arab World

Year	Image	Laureate	Country	Category	Comment
1978		Sadat, Anwar ElAnwar El Sadat	Egypt	Peace	First Afro-Arab to win a Nobel Prize in Peace
1988		Naguib Mahfouz	Egypt	Literature	First Egyptian Arab to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
1994		Yasser Arafat	Palestine	Peace	first Palestinian Arab in Nobel laureate in Peace
1999		Ahmed Zewail	Egypt	Chemistry	First Egyptian Arab to win a Nobel Prize in Science
2005		Mohamed ElBaradei	Egypt	Peace	First North African Arab to win a Nobel Prize in Peace
2011		Tawakkul Karman	Yemen	Peace	First Arab Muslim Women Nobel laureate in Peace
2015		Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet	Tunisia	Peace	First Tunisian Nobel Prize

Diaspora

Year	Image	Laureate	Country	Category	Comment
1960		Peter Medawar	United Kingdom	Medicine	First half Lebanese to win a Nobel Prize in Medicine, From Christian Lebanese descent[3]
1990		Elias James Corey	United States	Chemistry	First Christian Lebanese descent in Nobel laureate in Chemistry[4]
2015		Aziz Sancar	Turkey	Chemistry	First Turkish Arab in Nobel laureate in Chemistry.[5][6]

References

1. "Nobel Prize" (2007), in Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed 14 November 2007, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online:

   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

2. "All Nobel Laureates". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
3. "Sir Peter Medawar". New Scientist. 12 April 1984. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
4. Elias James Corey – Autobiography
5. "Nobeli alan Prof. Aziz Sancar konuştu" [Nobel Price winner Prof. Aziz Sancar speaks out] (in Turkish). CNN Türk. 11 October 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015. Anne babayla Arapça konuşurduk ama çocuklar kendi aramızda Türkçe konuşarak büyüdük.
6. "Nobel Prize in Chemistry: how our DNA repairs itself". Deutsch Welle. 7 October 2015.