# Hungarian and Hungarian-born Nobel laureates, from Philipp Lenard to László Krasznahorkai

From Philipp Lenard's physics prize in 1905 by way of Albert Szent-Györgyi, Imre Kertész, Katalin Karikó and Ferenc Krausz to László Krasznahorkai's 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature: Nobel laureates who were Hungarian or of Hungarian origin, in chronological order, with the prize category.

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- Dec 8, 2025 · Molnár Ádám
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## Top 20

1. **Philipp Lenard (1905)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physics, 1905.
2. **Robert Bárány (1914)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1914. Austrian of Hungarian origin.
3. **George Olah (1994)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1994.
4. **Albert Szent-Györgyi (1937)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1937.
5. **Elie Wiesel (1986)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Peace, 1986. Born in Romania, American of Hungarian Jewish descent.
6. **Richard Zsigmondy (1925)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1925. Austrian of Hungarian origin.
7. **Georg von Békésy (1961)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1961.
8. **Eugene Wigner (1963)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physics (shared), 1963.
9. **Dennis Gabor (1971)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physics, 1971.
10. **Milton Friedman (1976)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Economics, 1976. American of Hungarian Jewish descent.
11. **Avram Hershko (2004)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared), 2004. Israeli.
12. **László Krasznahorkai (2025)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Literature, 2025.
13. **George de Hevesy (1943)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1943.
14. **Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1976)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared), 1976. American of Slovak-Hungarian descent.
15. **John Harsanyi (1994)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Economics (shared), 1994.
16. **Imre Kertész (2002)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Literature, 2002.
17. **John Polanyi (1986)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared), 1986. Canadian, born in Germany.
18. **Louise Glück (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Literature, 2020. Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Hungary.
19. **Katalin Karikó (2023)** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared), 2023.
20. **Ferenc Krausz (2023)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Physics (shared), 2023.

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