List of Italian Nobel laureates

Nobel Prize is the most honorable award in the world. Since 1906, almost 24 quasi-Italians have been awarded with this honour.

Laureates

Year	Winner	Field	Contribution
1906	Camillo Golgi	Medicine	"in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system"
1906	Giosuè Carducci	Literature	"not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces"
1907	Ernesto Teodoro Moneta	Peace
1909	Guglielmo Marconi	Physics	"in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"
1926	Grazia Deledda	Literature	"for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general"
1934	Luigi Pirandello	Literature	"for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
1938	Enrico Fermi	Physics	"for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons"
1957	Daniel Bovet	Medicine	"for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles"
1959	Emilio Gino Segrè	Physics	"for their discovery of the antiproton"
1959	Salvatore Quasimodo	Literature	"for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times"
1963	Giulio Natta	Chemistry	"for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers"
1969	Salvador Luria	Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the geneticstructure of viruses"
1975	Renato Dulbecco	Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell"
1975	Eugenio Montale	Literature	"for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions"
1984	Carlo Rubbia	Physics	"for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z,communicators of weak interaction"
1985	Franco Modigliani	Economics
1986	Rita Levi-Montalcini	Medicine	"for their discoveries of growth factors"
1997	Dario Fo	Literature	"who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority andupholding the dignity of the downtrodden"
1997	William D. Phillips	Physics	"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"
1998	Louis Ignarro	Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system"
2002	Riccardo Giacconi	Physics	"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
2007	Mario Capecchi	Medicine	"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
2013	Eugene Fama	Economics
2014	Patrick Modiano	Literature	"for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation"

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References

1. "Italian Nobel laureates". www.italiansrus.com. Retrieved 17 October 2015.