From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of Muslim Nobel Laureates
List of Muslim Nobel Laureates
The Nobel Prize is an annual, international prize first • Orhan Pamuk – Turkish author famous for his
awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, book My Name is Red (2006).
Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. An associ-
ated prize in Economics has been awarded since 1969.[1]
The following is a list of Muslim Nobel Laureates
Laureates. Physics
• Abdus Salam – Pakistani born physicist (1979).
Peace
• Yasser Arafat – Palestinian politician (1994). chemistry
• Shirin Ebadi – Iranian human right activist
• Ahmed Zewail – American scientist born in
(2003).
Egypt (1999).
• Mohamed El Baradei – Egyptian policymaker
(2005).
• Anwar al-Sadat – Egyptian policymaker (1978).
References
• Tawakel Karman – human right activist based in
Yemen. A prominent leader in the Arab Spring [1] "Nobel Prize" (2007), in Encyclopædia Britannica,
(2011). accessed 14 November 2007, from Encyclopædia
Britannica Online:
• Muhammad Yunus – Bangladeshi economist and
founding father of Grameen Bank (2006).
An additional award, the Sveriges
Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
Literature Memory of Alfred Nobel, was
established in 1968 by the Bank of
• Naguib Mahfouz – Egyptian Author, noted for Sweden and was first awarded in 1969
his contribution to modern Arabic Literature (1988).
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