In 1909 Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Prize for Literature
France leads the Literature category with 11 Nobel wins
Winners include Albert Einstein (1921) ‘for his services to Theoretical Physics’
The US has more Nobel Prizes in every category but literature
Sir Alexander Fleming shared the 1945 prize after he accidentally discovered penicillin
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26
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7
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Sweden 29
Germany 80
France 54
UK 98
United States 258
Peace
Physiology or Medicine
Physics
Literature
Economic Sciences
Chemistry
The US has more Nobel Prizes in every category but literature
In 1909 Sweden’s Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Prize for Literature, a category France leads with 11 Nobels
Winners include Albert Einstein (1921) ‘for his services to Theoretical Physics’
Sir Alexander Fleming shared the 1945 prize after he accidentally discovered penicillin
Peace
Physiology
or Medicine
Physics
Literature
Economic
Sciences
Chemistry
70
26
12
24
7
7
24
Germany 80
Sweden 29
France 54
UK 98
United States 258