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List of Polish Nobel laureates

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Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ1861470 ↗
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This is a list of Nobel laureates who are Poles (ethnic) or Polish (citizenship). The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind", first instituted in 1901. Since 1903, there have been eighteen Poles who were awarded nineteen Nobel Prizes. Poles have been the recipients of all Nobel prize categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics.

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