List of Pakistani Nobel laureates explained

Following is a list of Nobel laureates who are either Pakistani or were born in the region that is now Pakistan but are not Pakistani by nationality.

Laureates

Pakistani citizens

, the list of Pakistani Nobel laureates consists of following people.[1]

YearPortraitLaureateSubjectRationale
1979Abdus SalamPhysicsAwarded jointly to Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg – "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current"[2] [3]
2014Malala YousafzaiPeaceAwarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai – "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education."[4]

Nobel laureates born in region that later become Pakistan

The laureates below were born in the part of British Raj that became Pakistan but are not Pakistani by nationality.

YearLaureateCountrySubjectRationale
1968Har Gobind Khorana
(born in Raipur, Punjab Province, British India)
Physiology or MedicineAwarded along with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg – "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis."[5]
1983Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
(born in Lahore, Punjab Province, British India)
Physics"For his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars."[6]

Notes and References

  1. News: By winning the Nobel prize, Malala joins Pakistan's loneliest club . Washington Post . 17 October 2015 . 2015-11-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151118052056/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/10/10/by-winning-the-nobel-prize-malala-joins-pakistans-loneliest-club/ . live .
  2. Web site: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 . Nobel Foundation . 9 October 2008 . 2018-12-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181226104418/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/summary/ . live .
  3. Book: Arun Agarwal . Nobel Prize Winners in Physics . 2008 . APH Publishing . 978-81-7648-743-6 . 234– . Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam won the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics. He won the award for his work in developing a unification hypothesis concerning electromagnetic and weak interactions between atomic particles. . 30 January 2018 . 2023-10-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231013090727/https://books.google.com/books?id=XyOBx2R2CxEC&pg=PA234#v=onepage&q&f=false . live.
  4. Web site: The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 . 4 May 2015. 10 June 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170610150457/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2014/ . live .
  5. Web site: H. Gobind Khorana . 4 May 2015. 1 June 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170601162054/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1968/khorana-facts.html . live .
  6. Web site: Subramanyan Chandrasekhar . 4 May 2015. 17 June 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170617071544/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1983/chandrasekhar-facts.html . live .