List of Chinese Nobel laureates

This is a list of Nobel laureates who are either of Chinese descent or were born in China.^[1]

Nobel laureates of Han Chinese ethnicity

The Nobel Prize committee does not specify the ethnicity of Laureates. This section lists laureates who are of Han Chinese ethnicity. A separate section below lists the one Laureate who is known to be of a non-Han Chinese ethnicity.

Name			Year of birth	Place of birth	Residence or Affiliation at the time of the award[2]	Field	Year
Tsung-Dao Lee	李政道		1926	Shanghai, China	Columbia University,  United States	Physics	1957[3]
Chen Ning Yang	楊振寧	杨振宁	1922	Hofei, Anhwei, China†	Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,  United States	Physics	1957[3]
Samuel C. C. Ting	丁肇中		1936	Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States	Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  United States	Physics	1976[4]
Yuan T. Lee	李遠哲	李远哲	1936	Hsinchu, Taiwan, Empire of Japan	University of California, Berkeley,  United States	Chemistry	1986[5]
Steven Chu	朱棣文		1948	St. Louis, Missouri, United States	Stanford University,  United States	Physics	1997[6]
Daniel C. Tsui	崔琦		1939	Pingdingshan, Henan, China	Princeton University,  United States	Physics	1998[7]
Gao Xingjian	高行健		1940	Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China	France	Literature	2000[8]
Roger Y. Tsien	錢永健	钱永健	1952	New York City, New York, United States	University of California, San Diego,  United States Howard Hughes Medical Institute,  United States	Chemistry	2008[9]
Charles K. Kao	高錕	高锟	1933	Shanghai, China	Standard Telecommunication Laboratories,  United Kingdom Chinese University of Hong Kong,  Hong Kong	Physics	2009[10]
Liu Xiaobo	劉曉波	刘晓波	1955	Changchun, Jilin, China	People's Republic of China	Peace	2010[11]
Mo Yan	莫言		1955	Gaomi, Shandong, China	People's Republic of China	Literature	2012[12]

† Now spelled "Hefei, Anhui" using Hanyu Pinyin transliteration.

Tibetan Nobel laureates

The following Laureate was born in China and is of a non-Han ethnicity that predominantly resides within China.

Name	Year of Birth	Place of Birth	Residence at the time of the award[2]	Field	Year
14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)	1935	Taktser, Tibet, China †	Tibet (see note below)	Peace	1989[13]

† Taktser is a village located in Qinghai (spelled Tsinghai at the time), which was under the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China. Although Tibet itself was not directly controlled by the Republic of China government, Tsinghai (Qinghai) province was under the authority of the government of the Republic of China.^[14] The Nobel Prize website indicates residence at the time of the award was Tibet.^[15] At the time of the award, the 14th Dalai Lama was holding a special travel document issued by the Government of India for Tibetan refugees.^{[citation needed]} Before he left Tibet, he was a national of the People's Republic of China. He has never claimed to renounce this nationality, and the Government of the People's Republic of China has never announced his loss of nationality.^{[citation needed]}

Non-Chinese Nobel laureates born in China

The Laureates below were born in China but are not Han Chinese nor a member of a recognized minority nationality of China.

Name	Year of birth	Place of birth	Affiliation at the time of the award[2]	Field	Year
Walter Houser Brattain	1902	Amoy, China[16]	Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments, Inc.,  United States	Physics	1956
Edmond H. Fischer	1920	Shanghai, China[17]	University of Washington,  United States	Medicine/Physiology	1992
Ei-ichi Negishi	1935	Changchun, Jilin, China[18]	Purdue University,  United States	Chemistry	2010

• Amoy, now known as Xiamen, is a city in Fujian Province.
• Changchun was named Hsinking in 1935 under the Japanese-controlled state Manchukuo. At the time most countries did not recognise the separation of Manchuria, which includes Jilin, from the Republic of China.

See also

• Nobel Prize
• List of Nobel laureates

References