List of Hungarian Nobel laureates

Hungarians have won 13 Nobel Prizes since 1905. The following is a complete list of Nobel laureates from Hungary:^[1]

Winners

Year	Winner	Field	Contribution
1905	Philipp Lenard	Physics	"for his work on cathode rays"
1914	Robert Barany	Medicine	"for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus"
1925	Richard Adolf Zsigmondy	Chemistry	"for his demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry"
1937	Albert Szent-Györgyi	Medicine	"for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"
1943	George de Hevesy	Chemistry	"for his work on the use ofisotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"
1961	Georg von Békésy	Medicine	"for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"
1963	Eugene Wigner	Physics	"for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"
1971	Dennis Gabor	Physics	"for his invention and development of the holographic method"
1986	John Polanyi	Chemistry	"for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"
1994	George Olah	Chemistry	"for his contribution to carbocation chemistry"
1994	John Harsanyi	Economics	"pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
2002	Imre Kertész	Literature	"for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"
2004	Avram Hershko	Chemistry	"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"

References

1. "All Nobel laureates from Hungary". www.mta.hu. Retrieved 17 October 2015.