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The Nobel Peace Prize has come home, says SA’s latest laureate, Navi Pillay • Nov. 9, 2026, 2:45 PM ET (Daily Maverick)
Today in History: November 5, Sinclair Lewis the first American to win Nobel for literature • Nov. 5, 2026, 4:04 AM ET (Hartford Courant)
William Nordhaus Dies; Nobel Winner Influenced Climate Policy • Nov. 4, 2026, 3:00 AM ET (New York Times)
William Nordhaus, Nobelist who influenced climate policy, dies at 85 • Nov. 3, 2026, 2:54 PM ET (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
FACT FOCUS: Kennedy's claim that Arabs 'don't produce science' meets a Nobel Prize reality check • Oct. 27, 2026, 10:06 PM ET (AP)

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Notable Honorees Barack Obama • Winston Churchill • Albert Einstein • William Butler Yeats • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Woodrow Wilson • F.A. Hayek • Bertrand Russell • 14th Dalai Lama • Yasser Arafat • Theodore Roosevelt • T.S. Eliot • Bob Dylan • George Bernard Shaw • Gustav Stresemann • Eugene O’Neill • William Faulkner • Ernest Rutherford • Samuel Beckett • Werner Heisenberg • Jimmy Carter • Ernest Hemingway • Niels Bohr • John Steinbeck • Max Planck • Thomas Mann • Pablo Neruda • Anne Carson • Rigoberta Menchú • Abiy Ahmed • Aung San Suu Kyi • Enrico Fermi • Marie Curie • Henri Bergson • Theodor Mommsen • André Gide • Wilhelm Ostwald • Milton Friedman • Linus Pauling • Juan Manuel Santos • Mikhail Gorbachev • Fridtjof Nansen • Ivan Pavlov • Boris Leonidovich Pasternak • Frederick Sanger • Guglielmo Marconi • Irène Joliot-Curie • Frédéric Joliot-Curie • Carl Cori • Gerty Cori • Mother Teresa • Fritz Haber • Mario Vargas Llosa • María Corina Machado • P.A.M. Dirac • Luigi Pirandello • Paul Ehrlich • Robert Koch • Rudyard Kipling • Nelson Mandela • Henry Kissinger • Seamus Heaney • J.J. Thomson • Albert Camus • Irving Langmuir • Toni Morrison • Thomas Hunt Morgan • Richard Feynman • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf • Derek Walcott • Walther Nernst • Narges Mohammadi • Andrey Sakharov • Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn • Harold C. Urey • Hans Bethe • Esther Duflo • Jon Fosse • Alfred Werner • Lev Davidovich Landau • Claudia Goldin • Albert John Luthuli • Drew Weissman • Malala Yousafzai • Alice Munro • Michael Kremer • William Golding • Svante Arrhenius • Glenn T. Seaborg • Ben Bernanke • Karl Deisseroth • Alexander Fleming • Emmanuelle Charpentier • Karl Ziegler • Katalin Karikó • Robert Burns Woodward • Wolfgang Pauli • Lech Wałęsa • Paul J. Flory • Sir William Ramsay • Henri Becquerel • Wole Soyinka • Annie Ernaux • Gabriel García Márquez • Louis de Broglie • Jennifer Doudna • Dorothy Hodgkin • Al Gore • Demis Hassabis • Willard Frank Libby • A.A. Michelson • Melvin Calvin • George C. Marshall • Gerhart Hauptmann • Konrad Lorenz • Han Kang • Richard Thaler • Emil Fischer • Abhijit Banerjee • Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff • Daron Acemoglu • Elias James Corey • Lord Rayleigh • Sir Derek H.R. Barton • Paul Milgrom • Isaac Bashevis Singer • David Card • Erwin Schrödinger • Simon Johnson • Rainer Weiss • László Krasznahorkai • Otto Hahn • Alain Aspect • James A. Robinson • Philippe Aghion • Dmitry Muratov • Sir Lawrence Bragg • Henri B. Kagan • François Mauriac • Maria Ressa • Kofi Annan • Saul Bellow • Joel Mokyr • Abdulrazak Gurnah • Yitzhak Rabin • Kailash Satyarthi • Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa • Günter Grass • Orhan Pamuk • Francis Halzen • Muhammad Yunus • Svetlana Alexievich • Sir William Bragg • Jack Kilby • Fraser Stoddart • Pierre Curie • Max Born • Harold Pinter • Kim Dae-Jung • Bruce A. Beutler • John O’Keefe • Anwar Sadat • Willy Brandt • Octavio Paz • Michael Woodford • Guido Imbens • Leymah Gbowee • Peter Hegemann • Robert B. Wilson • James Watson • Amartya Sen • Mohamed ElBaradei • Joshua Angrist • Richard Henderson • Edvard I. Moser • May-Britt Moser • Hermann Joseph Muller • Dag Hammarskjöld • Peter Handke • Anton Zeilinger • John M. Jumper • Robert J. Lefkowitz • John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr of Brechin Mearns • John F. Clauser • Shimon Peres • John Galsworthy • Ralph M. Steinman • Frédéric Mistral • Louis E. Brus • Kary Mullis • Gary Ruvkun • Chen Ning Yang • David Baker • Mo Yan • José Saramago • Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson • C.V. Raman • Eric Betzig • Svante Pääbo

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