List of Danish Nobel laureates explained

This is a list of Danish Nobel laureates. Since the Nobel Prize was established per the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895, 14 of the prize winners have been from Denmark. The first Danish Nobel laureate was Niels Ryberg Finsen, who won a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1903 for his work on using light therapy to treat diseases. The most recent Danish Nobel Prize winner was Morten Meldal who won the prize in chemistry in 2022 for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry. To date, of the 14 Nobel Prizes won by Danish people, five have been for medicine, three have been for physics, three have been for literature, two have been for chemistry, and one has been for peace.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Laureates

	Year	Winner	Field
1	1903	Niels Ryberg Finsen	Medicine
2	1908	Fredrik Bajer	Peace
3 & 4	1917	Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan	Literature
5	1920	August Krogh	Medicine
6	1922	Niels Bohr	Physics
7	1926	Johannes Fibiger	Medicine
8	1943	Carl Peter Henrik Dam	Medicine
9	1944	Johannes V. Jensen	Literature
10 & 11	1975	Aage Bohr and Ben Roy Mottelson	Physics
12	1984	Niels Kaj Jerne	Medicine
13	1997	Jens Christian Skou	Chemistry
14	2022	Morten Meldal	Chemistry

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Nobel Laureates and Country of Birth . www.nobelprize.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130917002234/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/countries.html . 2013-09-17.
2. Book: Nielsen . Henry . Nielsen . Keld . 2001 . Neighbouring Nobel: The History of Thirteen Danish Nobel Prizes . Aarhus University Press . 978-87-7288-899-6.
3. Web site: Dansker deler Nobelpris i kemi med to amerikanere . Politiken . 2022-10-05 . da . 2022-10-06.
4. Web site: Nobel Prize Winners in Denmark – Nobel Laureates Denmark . altiusdirectory.com . 2015-10-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170822093927/http://www.altiusdirectory.com/Society/nobel-prize-winners-denmark.html . 2017-08-22 . dead.