To date, a total of three people of Turkish origin and Turkish citizenship have won the Nobel Prize. The first of these was Orhan Pamuk in 2006. A list of these individuals is provided in the table below.

Year Image Laureate Born Field Citation
2024 Daron Acemoglu[1][2] 1967 in Turkey Economics "have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity."
2015 Aziz Sancar[3] 1946 in Turkey Chemistry "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
2006 Orhan Pamuk[4] 1952 in Turkey Literature "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"

Nominations

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Here are people who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize but did not win.

Year Image Laureate Born Field

1970
1971
1972
1973

Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca 1914 in Ottoman Empire Literature
1969 Feza Gürsey 1921 in Ottoman Empire Physics
1967 İsmet İnönü 1884 in Ottoman Empire Peace
1934 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1881 in Ottoman Empire Peace
1932 Kemal Cenap Berksoy 1875 in Ottoman Empire Physiology or Medicine
1910 Committee of Union and Progress Peace

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References

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