34% of Nobel Prizes Have Gone to Americans - Voronoi
Oct 26, 2025
34% of Nobel Prizes Have Gone to Americans
Key takeaways
The Nobel Prize is an international award for outstanding achievements in science, literature, and peace, given annually since 1901.
Among the long list of U.S. laureates are Martin Luther King Jr. (for his fight against racial segregation and injustice) and Ernest Hemingway (for his impactful work in literature).
Marie Curie, born in Poland and later a French citizen, was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for her pioneering discoveries in radioactivity.
