List of Australian Nobel laureates

Since 1915 there have been sixteen Australian winners of the Nobel Prize. The majority of these prizes (eight) have been awarded in the field of Physiology or Medicine, and include the second youngest ever laureate (William Lawrence Bragg, who was awarded the prize at 25 years of age). Bragg and his father (William Henry Bragg) are also the only father-son duo to have won a Nobel Prize in the same year. Most Australians awarded Nobel prizes before the end of the awarding of British/Imperial honours (in 1992) also received (or were offered) knighthoods.

This list includes laureates who were not born in Australia, but who nevertheless spent a significant portion of their training or career there.

Australian Nobel laureates

Year	Laureate	Field	Life	Citation
2011	Brian P. Schmidt	Physics	1967–	"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" shared with Saul Perlmutter and Adam G. Riess
2009	Elizabeth Blackburn	Physiology or Medicine	1948–	"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" shared with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak
2005	Barry J. Marshall	Physiology or Medicine	1951–	"for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease" shared with J. Robin Warren
2005	J. Robin Warren	Physiology or Medicine	1937–	"for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease" shared with Barry J. Marshall
2003	J. M. Coetzee	Literature	1940–	"who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider"
1996	Peter C. Doherty	Physiology or Medicine	1940–	"for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence" shared with Rolf M. Zinkernagel
1994	John C. Harsanyi	Economics	1920–2000	"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games" shared with John F. Nash, Jr. and Reinhard Selten
1975	Sir John Cornforth	Chemistry	1917–2013	"for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions" shared with Vladimir Prelog
1973	Patrick White	Literature	1912–1990	"for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature"
1970	Sir Bernard Katz	Physiology or Medicine	1911–2003	"for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation" shared with Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod
1964	Alexander M. Prokhorov	Physics	1916–2002	"for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle" shared with Charles H. Townes and Nicolay G. Basov
1963	Sir John Carew Eccles	Physiology or Medicine	1903–1997	"for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane" shared with Alan L. Hodgkin and Andrew F. Huxley
1960	Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet	Physiology or Medicine	1899–1985	"for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance" shared with Peter Medawar
1945	Howard Florey, Baron Florey	Physiology or Medicine	1898–1968	"for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases" shared with Alexander Fleming and Ernst B. Chain
1915	Sir William Henry Bragg	Physics	1862–1942	"for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays" shared with William Lawrence Bragg
1915	Sir William Lawrence Bragg	Physics	1890–1971	"for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays" shared with William Henry Bragg

Australian laureates by birthplace

Schmidt

Blackburn

Marshall

Eccles

Coetzee

Doherty

Harsanyi

Cornforth

White

Katz

Prokhorov

Burnet

W.H. Bragg

W.L.
Bragg,
Florey,
Warren

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Birthplaces of Australian Nobel laureates

See also

• All Nobel Laureates from the Nobel Foundation
• The White Hat Guide to Australian Nobel Prize Winners