This is a list of the Belgian Nobel laureates
Year | Laureate | Field | Life | Citation |
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2013 | François Englert[1] | Physics | 1932– | "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider" shared with Peter Higgs |
1977 | Ilya Prigogine[2] | Chemistry | 1917–2003 | "for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures" |
1974 | Albert Claude[3] and Christian De Duve[4] | Physiology or Medicine | 1898–1983 (Claude) 1917–2013 (De Duve) |
"for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell" with George E. Palade |
1958 | Dominique Pire[5] | Peace | 1910–1969 | No citation |
1938 | Corneille Heymans[6] | Physiology or Medicine | 1892–1968 | "for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration" |
1919 | Jules Bordet[7] | Physiology or Medicine | 1870–1961 | "for his discoveries relating to immunity" |
1913 | Henri La Fontaine[8] | Peace | 1854–1943 | No citation |
1911 | Maurice Maeterlinck[9] | Literature | 1862–1949 | "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations" |
1909 | Auguste Marie François Beernaert[10] | Peace | 1829–1912 | With Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant (no citation) |
1904 | Institut de Droit International[11] | Peace | Founded 1873 | No citation |