From 1905 to 2026, 211 Jewish men and women have been awarded the Nobel Prize for discoveries, writing and work for peace that changed the world for everyone. Here is each of them, with the Nobel committee’s own words for why.
Each bar is a decade; colors show the prize. Tap a decade to see its laureates.
Jews are about 0.2% of the world’s population. Citations are the Nobel Foundation’s official prize motivations; who counts as Jewish follows Wikipedia’s sourced list of Jewish Nobel laureates, including people with one Jewish parent.
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