Every Danish Nobel laureate
The top 3 according to 16 votes from people: Niels Ryberg Finsen (1903) · Fredrik Bajer (1908) · Karl Gjellerup (1917). (Updated Jul 16, 2025.)
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.
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Top 14
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Niels Ryberg Finsen (1903)
Nobel Prize in Medicine 1903. Light therapy for diseases such as lupus vulgaris. The first Danish laureate.
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Fredrik Bajer (1908)
Nobel Peace Prize 1908. Pacifist and founder of the Danish Peace Society.
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Karl Gjellerup (1917)
Nobel Prize in Literature 1917. Shared the prize with Henrik Pontoppidan.
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Morten Meldal (2022)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022. For click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.
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Henrik Pontoppidan (1917)
Nobel Prize in Literature 1917. Author of Lucky Per.
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Ben Mottelson (1975)
Nobel Prize in Physics 1975. Born in the US, a Danish citizen from 1971.
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Niels Kaj Jerne (1984)
Nobel Prize in Medicine 1984. For theories on the immune system.
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Aage Bohr (1975)
Nobel Prize in Physics 1975. Son of Niels Bohr; shared the prize with Ben Mottelson.
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August Krogh (1920)
Nobel Prize in Medicine 1920. Discovered how capillaries regulate blood supply to muscles.
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Niels Bohr (1922)
Nobel Prize in Physics 1922. For his model of the structure of the atom.
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Johannes Fibiger (1926)
Nobel Prize in Medicine 1926.
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Henrik Dam (1943)
Nobel Prize in Medicine 1943. Discovered vitamin K.
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Johannes V. Jensen (1944)
Nobel Prize in Literature 1944. Author of The Fall of the King.
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Jens Christian Skou (1997)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997. Discovered the sodium–potassium pump.
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