| Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
|---|
| Werner Arber | Medicine | 1978 | "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics" |
| J. Georg Bednorz | Physics | 1987 | "for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials" |
| Gerd Binnig | Physics | 1986 | "for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope" |
| Felix Bloch | Physics | 1952 | "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith" |
| Daniel Bovet | Medicine | 1957 | "for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles" |
| Georges Charpak | Physics | 1992 | "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber" |
| Jacques Dubochet | Chemistry | 2017 | "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution" |
| Élie Ducommun | Peace | 1902 | |
| Jean Henry Dunant | Peace | 1901 | |
| Richard R. Ernst | Chemistry | 1991 | "for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy" |
| Charles Albert Gobat | Peace | 1902 | |
| Charles Edouard Guillaume | Physics | 1920 | "in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys" |
| Walter Rudolf Hess | Medicine | 1949 | "for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs" |
| Niels K. Jerne | Medicine | 1984 | "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies" |
| Paul Karrer | Chemistry | 1937 | "for his investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2" |
| Emil Theodor Kocher | Medicine | 1909 | "for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland" |
| Georges J.F. Köhler | Medicine | 1984 | "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies" |
| Michel Mayor | Physics | 2019 | discovery of the first exoplanet circling a sun-like star |
| K. Alexander Müller | Physics | 1987 | "for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials" |
| Paul Hermann Müller | Medicine | 1948 | "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods" |
| Vladimir Prelog | Chemistry | 1975 | "for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions" |
| Didier Queloz | Physics | 2019 | discovery of the first exoplanet circling a sun-like star |
| Tadeus Reichstein | Medicine | 1950 | "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects" |
| Heinrich Rohrer | Physics | 1986 | "for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope" |
| Carlo Rubbia | Physics | 1984 | "for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction" |
| Leopold Ruzicka | Chemistry | 1939 | "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" |
| Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler | Literature | 1919 | "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring" |
| Jack Steinberger | Physics | 1988 | "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino" |
| Simon van der Meer | Physics | 1984 | "for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction" |
| Alfred Werner | Chemistry | 1913 | "in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry" |
| Kurt Wüthrich | Chemistry | 2002 | "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution" |
| Rolf M. Zinkernagel | Medicine | 1996 | "for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence" |