South Africa and the Nobel Prize
Winners of Nobel Prizes resident in South Africa at the time of the award:
1. Max Theiler: Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1951)
2. Albert Lutuli: Nobel Prize in Peace (1960)
3. Desmond Tutu: Nobel Prize in Peace (1984)
4. Nadine Gordimer: Nobel Prize in Literature (1991)
5. Nelson Mandela: Nobel Prize in Peace (1993)
6. Frederik W. de Klerk: Nobel Prize in Peace (1993)
7. John M. Coetzee: Nobel Prize in Literature (2003)
Winners of Nobel Prize who were born in South Africa and who were resident elsewhere at time of the award:
8. Allan M. Cormack: Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1979)
9. Sydney Brenner: Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (2002)
