Table

Canadian Nobel Laureates

Administered by the Nobel Foundation, the Nobel Prizes are awarded in six categories: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economic sciences. Sixteen Canadians have been awarded Nobel Prizes, excluding Canadian-born individuals who gave up their citizenship and members of organizations that have won the Nobel Peace Prize. (See also Nobel Prizes and Canada.)

Nobel Prize medal

Canadian Nobel Laureates

Name

Nobel Prize

Year

Sir Frederick Banting

Physiology or Medicine

1923

Lester B. Pearson

Peace Prize

1957

Gerhard Herzberg

Chemistry

1971

David H. Hubel

Physiology or Medicine

1981

John Polanyi

Chemistry

1986

Sidney Altman

Chemistry

1989

Richard E. Taylor

Physics

1990

Michael Smith

Chemistry

1993

Bertram Neville Brockhouse

Physics

1994

Robert Mundell

Economic Sciences

1999

Willard S. Boyle

Physics

2009

Alice Munro

Literature

2013

Arthur B. McDonald

Physics

2015

Donna Strickland

Physics

2018

James Peebles

Physics

2019

David Card

Economic Sciences

2021