List of Nobel laureates from Sweden
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Year Laureate Born Died Field Rationale 1903 Svante Arrhenius 19 February 1859 in Uppsala, Sweden 2 October 1927 in Stockholm, Sweden Chemistry "for his electrolytic theory of dissociation." 1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson 27 October 1844 in Gothenburg, Sweden 20 February 1916 in Stockholm, Sweden Peace "for his work as founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League." 1909 Selma Lagerlöf 20 November 1858 in Sunne, Sweden 16 March 1940 in Sunne, Sweden Literature "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings." 1911 Allvar Gullstrand 5 June 1862 in Landskrona, Sweden 28 July 1930 in Stockholm, Sweden Physiology or Medicine "for his work on the dioptrics of the eye." 1912 Gustaf Dalén 30 November 1869 in Falköping, Sweden 9 December 1937 in Lidingö, Sweden Physics "for his invention of automatic valves designed to be used in combination with gas accumulators in lighthouses and buoys." 1916 Verner von Heidenstam 6 July 1859 i Askersund, Sweden 20 May 20, 1940 in Motala, Sweden Literature "in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature." 1921 Hjalmar Branting 23 November 1860 in Stockholm, Sweden 24 February 1925 in Stockholm, Sweden Peace "for his work in the League of Nations."

(awarded together with Christian Lous Lange) 1924 Manne Siegbahn 3 December 1886 in Örebro, Sweden 26 September 1978 in Stockholm, Sweden Physics "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy." 1926 Theodor Svedberg 30 August 1884 in Gävle, Sweden 25 February 1971 in Ljusnarsberg, Sweden Chemistry "for his work on disperse systems." 1929 Hans von Euler-Chelpin February 15, 1873 in Augsburg, Germany November 6, 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden Chemistry "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes."

(awarded together with Arthur Harden) 1930 Nathan Söderblom 15 January 1866

Uppsala, Sweden 12 July 1931

Uppsala, Sweden Peace "for his efforts to involve the churches not only in work for ecumenical unity, but also for world peace." 1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt 20 July 1864 in Avesta, Sweden 8 April 1931 in Stockholm, Sweden Literature "for the poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt." (awarded posthumously) 1948 Arne Tiselius 10 August 1902 in Stockholm, Sweden 29 October 1971 in Uppsala, Sweden Chemistry "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins." 1951 Pär Lagerkvist 23 May 1891 in Växjö, Sweden 11 July 1974 in Lidingö, Sweden Literature ""for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind." 1955 Hugo Theorell 6 July 1903 in Linköping, Sweden 15 August 1982 in Stockholm, Sweden Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes." 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld 29 July 1905 in Jönköping, Sweden 18 September 1961 in Ndola, Zambia Peace "for strengthening the foundations of the United Nations Organization." (awarded posthumously) 1966 Nelly Sachs 10 December 1891 in Berlin, Germany 12 May 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden Literature "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength."

(awarded together with Shmuel Yosef Agnon) 1967 Ragnar Granit 30 October 1900 in Riihimäki, Finland 12 March 1991 in Stockholm, Sweden Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye."

(awarded together with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald) 1970 Hannes Alfvén 30 May 1908 in Norrköping, Sweden 2 April 1995 in Danderyd, Sweden Physics "for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics."

(awarded together with Louis Néel) Ulf von Euler 7 February 1905 in Stockholm, Sweden 9 March 1983 in Stockholm, Sweden Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation."

(awarded together with Julius Axelrod and Bernard Katz) 1974 Gunnar Myrdal 6 December in 1898

Orsa, Sweden 17 May 1987 in Danderyd, Sweden Economics "for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena."

(awarded together with Friedrich Hayek) Eyvind Johnson 29 July 1900 in Boden, Sweden 25 August 1976 in Stockholm, Sweden Literature "for a narrative art, farseeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom." Harry Martinson 6 May 1904 in Olofström, Sweden 11 February 1978 in Solna, Sweden "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos." 1977 Bertil Ohlin 23 April 1899 in Klippan, Sweden 3 August 1979 in Åre, Sweden Economics "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements."

(awarded together with James Meade) 1981 Torsten Wiesel 3 June 1924

Uppsala, Sweden — Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system."

(awarded together with Roger Wolcott Sperry and David Hunter Hubel) Kai Siegbahn 20 April 1918 in Lund, Sweden 20 July 2007 in Ängelholm, Sweden Physics "for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy."

(awarded together with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Leonard Schawlow) Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson May 21, 1934 in Halmstad, Sweden — 2000 Arvid Carlsson 25 January 1923 in Uppsala, Sweden 29 June 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system."

(awarded together with Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel) 2011 Tomas Tranströmer 15 April 1931 in Stockholm, Sweden 26 March 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden Literature "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality." 2015 Tomas Lindahl 28 January 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden — Chemistry "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair."

(shared with Paul L. Modrich and Aziz Sancar) 2022 Svante Pääbo 20 April 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden — Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution."