Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
Elizabeth H. Blackburn | Medicine | 2009 | "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" |
William Lawrence Bragg | Physics | 1915 | "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays" |
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet | Medicine | 1960 | "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance" |
John Warcup Cornforth | Chemistry | 1975 | "for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions" |
Peter C. Doherty | Medicine | 1996 | "for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence" |
Sir John Carew Eccles | Medicine | 1963 | "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane" |
Sir Howard Walter Florey | Medicine | 1945 | "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases" |
Barry J. Marshall | Medicine | 2005 | "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease" |
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov | Physics | 1964 | "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" |
Brian P. Schmidt | Physics | 2011 | "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" |
J. Robin Warren | Medicine | 2005 | "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease" |