# Every Danish Nobel laureate

From physician Niels Ryberg Finsen in 1903 to chemist Morten Meldal in 2022: the 14 Danes who have won a Nobel Prize – five in medicine, three in physics, three in literature, two in chemistry and one Peace Prize. Niels Bohr and his son Aage Bohr both won the Physics prize.

- 16 votes · 14 items
- Jul 16, 2025 · Louise Nielsen
- https://even.best/en/l/5519/every-danish-nobel-laureate

## Top 14

1. **Niels Ryberg Finsen (1903)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Medicine 1903. Light therapy for diseases such as lupus vulgaris. The first Danish laureate.
2. **Fredrik Bajer (1908)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nobel Peace Prize 1908. Pacifist and founder of the Danish Peace Society.
3. **Karl Gjellerup (1917)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Literature 1917. Shared the prize with Henrik Pontoppidan.
4. **Morten Meldal (2022)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022. For click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.
5. **Henrik Pontoppidan (1917)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Literature 1917. Author of Lucky Per.
6. **Ben Mottelson (1975)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1975. Born in the US, a Danish citizen from 1971.
7. **Niels Kaj Jerne (1984)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Medicine 1984. For theories on the immune system.
8. **Aage Bohr (1975)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1975. Son of Niels Bohr; shared the prize with Ben Mottelson.
9. **August Krogh (1920)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Medicine 1920. Discovered how capillaries regulate blood supply to muscles.
10. **Niels Bohr (1922)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1922. For his model of the structure of the atom.
11. **Johannes Fibiger (1926)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Medicine 1926.
12. **Henrik Dam (1943)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Medicine 1943. Discovered vitamin K.
13. **Johannes V. Jensen (1944)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Literature 1944. Author of The Fall of the King.
14. **Jens Christian Skou (1997)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997. Discovered the sodium–potassium pump.

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