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List of Chinese Nobel laureates


Since 1957, there have been eight Chinese (including Chinese born) winners of the Nobel Prize (Swedish: Nobelpriset). The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. An associated prize, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was instituted by Sweden's central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.

This is a list of Nobel laureates who are either of Chinese descent or were born in China.

The following are the Nobel laureates who were Chinese citizens at the time they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

The following are Nobel laureates of Chinese birth and origin but subsequently acquired foreign citizenship; however, they are still often included in lists of Chinese Nobel laureates.

The Nobel Prize committee does not specify the ethnicity of laureates. This section lists laureates who are of Han Chinese ethnicity. A separate section below lists the one laureate who is known to be of a non-Han Chinese ethnicity.

The following is Nobel laureate of Taiwanese birth, with Taiwanese and American citizen.

The following are Nobel laureates those of Han Chinese descent American citizen, born in the U.S.

The following laureate was born in the Republic of China and is Tibetan, a non-Han ethnicity that predominantly resides within Tibet.


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