List of Armenian Nobel laureates

As of 2024, there are three Nobel laureates and seven Nobel nominees of Armenian descent.

Laureates

Year	Image	Laureate	Born	Field	Citation	Ancestry
2020		Emmanuelle Charpentier	1968 in France	Chemistry	"developed a method for high-precision genome editing."[1]	partial ancestry (Armenian paternal grandfather)[2]
2021		Ardem Patapoutian	1967 in Lebanon	Physiology or Medicine	"investigated how pressure is translated into nerve impulses."[3]	full ancestry (both parents of Lebanese Armenian descent)
2024		Daron Acemoglu	1967 in Turkey	Economics	"have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity."[4]	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."[5][6]

Nominations

Nominees

Image	Nominee	Born	Field	Year(s) Nominated	Nominator(s)
	Armen Alchian	1914 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.	Economics	1986	William R. Allen[7]
	Garo Paylan	1972 in Istanbul, Turkey	Peace	2018, 2020	[8]
	Ruben Vardanyan	1968 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR	Peace	2024	Group of renowned public and political figures[9]
	Giacomo Luigi Ciamician	1857 in Trieste, Austrian Empire	Chemistry	1905, 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)[10]
	Alicia Ghiragossian	1936 in Córdoba, Argentina	Literature	1997	[11][12]
	Zbigniew Herbert	1924 in Lwów, Poland	Literature	1968	Nominated jointly with Graham Greene and Sławomir Mrożek by Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982) the only time[13]
	Henri Troyat	1911 in Moscow, Russian Empire	Literature	1965	Nominated by Ernst Dickenmann[14]
	Varujan Vosganian	1958 in Craiova, Romania	Literature	2013, 2014, 2015	[15][16]

See also

• List of Armenian inventors and discoverers

References

1. "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
2. "Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier reveals Armenian identity". Public Radio of Armenia. 6 September 2022. Archived from the original on 29 October 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
3. "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
4. "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
5. Long, Tricia (November 4, 2007). "Sahagian plays role in IPCC receiving 2007 Nobel Peace Prize". news.lehigh.edu. Archived from the original on 26 December 2024.
6. "Dork Sahagian". ees.cas.lehigh.edu. Earth & Environmental Science - Lehigh University. Archived from the original on 26 December 2024. Part of his research led him to coauthor the pivotal reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former vice president Al Gore.
7. Allen, William R. (September 2010). "A Life among the Econ, Particularly at UCLA". Econ Journal Watch. 7 (3): 205–234. Archived from the original on 2021-09-18. Retrieved 2021-09-18. (archived)
8. Garo Paylan nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, by Siranush Ghazanchyan, Public Radio of Armenia, January 24, 2020
9. "Ruben Vardanyan nominated for Nobel Peace Prize". Public Radio of Armenia. Archived from the original on 26 December 2024. Retrieved 2024-10-19.
10. Nebbia, Giorgio [in Italian]; Kauffman, George B. (2007). "Prophet of Solar Energy: A Retrospective View of Giacomo Luigi Ciamician (1857–1922), the Founder of Green Chemistry, on the 150th Anniversary of His Birth" (PDF). The Chemical Educator. 12: 362–369.
11. "Poet pulls Armenian heart strings: colleagues support author for Nobel Prize in literature". Los Angeles Daily News. 16 September 1996.
12. Kaiaidjian, Azadouhi (Summer 1997). "About the Poet" (PDF). Al-Raida Journal. XIV (78). Lebanese American University. She has won international awards for her poetic achievements,. and Yerevan (Armenia) State University has officially presented Alicia Ghiragossian to the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
13. https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=15017
14. https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=13795
15. https://la.mfa.am/en/news/2018/03/06/thebookofwhispers/5682
16. https://www.romania-insider.com/romania-proposes-four-writers-including-former-economy-minister-for-nobel-prize-in-literature