Three individuals of Armenian ethnicity or ancestry have won Nobel Prizes since 2020. The following is a complete list of Nobel laureates of Armenian descent:
Laureates Year Image Laureate Born Field Citation Ancestry2020Emmanuelle Charpentier 1968 in FranceChemistry"developed a method for high-precision genome editing."partial ancestry (Armenian paternal grandfather)2021Ardem Patapoutian1967 in LebanonPhysiology or Medicine"investigated how pressure is translated into nerve impulses."full ancestry (both parents of Lebanese Armenian descent)2024Daron Acemoglu1967 in TurkeyEconomics"have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity."full ancestry (both parents of Turkish Armenian descent)
Dork Sahagian contributed to three of four assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former vice president Al Gore. He described his contribution as "only very minor, involving humanity’s effect on sea level rise."
Nominations Nominees Image Nominee Born Field Year(s) Nominated Nominator(s)Armen Alchian 1914 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.Economics1986William R. Allen (archived)Garo Paylan1972 in Istanbul, TurkeyPeace2018, 2020Siranush GhazachyanGaro Paylan nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, by Siranush Ghazanchyan, Public Radio of Armenia, January 24, 2020Ruben Vardanyan1968 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSRPeace2024Group of renowned public and political figuresGiacomo Luigi Ciamician1857 in Trieste, Austrian EmpireChemistry1905, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1919, 1921 Icilio Guareschi (1905), Emil Fischer, Henri Moissan (1907), Emil Fischer (1908), Ludwig Wolff (1911), Ludwig Knorr (1912), Max Bamberger, Josef Maria Eder, Wilhelm Suida, Georg Vortmann, Carl Dietrich Harries (1914), Leone Pesci (1916), Giorgio Errera (1919), Camillo Golgi, Vito Volterra, Georg Vortmann (1921)Alicia Ghiragossian1936 in Córdoba, ArgentinaLiterature1997Zbigniew Herbert1924 in Lwów, PolandLiterature1968Nominated jointly with Graham Greene and Sławomir Mrożek by Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982) the only timehttps://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=15017Henri Troyat1911 in Moscow, Russian EmpireLiterature1965Nominated by Ernst Dickenmannhttps://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=13795Varujan Vosganian1958 in Craiova, RomaniaLiterature2013, 2014, 2015https://la.mfa.am/en/news/2018/03/06/thebookofwhispers/5682https://www.romania-insider.com/romania-proposes-four-writers-including-former-economy-minister-for-nobel-prize-in-literature
See also List of Armenian inventors and discoverers List of Nobel laureates by country
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