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Nobel Laureates (Subject) / Nobel Laureates (Lesson)

Medicine

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  • Barry Marshall and Robin Warren The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005 Prize motivation: "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease."
  • Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system"
  • Andrew Fire and Craig Mellow The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006 Prize motivation: "for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"
  • Harald zur Hausen The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 Prize motivation: "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"
  • Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 Prize motivation: "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"
  • Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 Prize motivation: "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
  • Robert G. Edwards The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 Prize motivation: "for the development of in vitro fertilization"
  • Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" 
  • John O'Keefe and May-Britt Moser The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain"
  • William C. Campbell The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites"
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  • Jeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"
  • James P. Allison The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018 Prize motivation: "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation"
  • Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric Kandel The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000 Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system"
  • Günter Blobel The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999 Prize motivation: "for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell"