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Frederick G. Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1923 for his discovery of insulin. William F. Giauque received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1949 for his contributions to chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning substances at extremely low temperatures. Lester Bowles Pearson, as a former prime minister, was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for defusing the 1956 Suez crisis.

Charles B. Huggins won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1966 for his discoveries regarding hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer. Gerhard Herzberg received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1971 for his work on the electronic structure and geometry of molecules, especially free radicals. Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1976 for his portrayal of human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture in his work.

David H. Hubel was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1981 for his discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system. Henry Taube received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1983 for his work on electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes. John Polanyi was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1986 for his contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.

Sidney Altman was honored with the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1990 for the discovery of catalytic properties of RNA. Richard E. Taylor was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1990 for his investigations into deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which were essential for the development of the quark model in particle physics.

Rudolph A. Marcus received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1992 for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems. Michael Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993 for his fundamental contributions to site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies. Bertram N. Brockhouse was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1994 for his development of neutron spectroscopy.

William Vickrey was awarded the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 1996 for his contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. Myron S. Scholes received the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 1997 for his method in determining the value of derivatives. Robert A. Mundell was awarded the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 1999 for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under various exchange rate regimes.

Jack W. Szostak was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2009 for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. Willard S. Boyle shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 2009 for the invention of the CCD sensor, an imaging semiconductor circuit. Ralph M. Steinman was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2011 for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.

Alice Munro was honored with the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013 for being the master of the contemporary short story. Arthur B. McDonald received the Nobel Prize in physics in 2015 for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, showing that neutrinos have mass. Donna Strickland was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2018 for co-developing a method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.

James Peebles was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2013 for laying out the chemical makeup of the universe at its beginning and explaining the formation of galaxies. David Card shared the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2019 for his pioneering research on labor-market impacts of minimum wage, immigration, and education.

Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "godfather of AI," shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 2024 for his work laying the foundation for machine learning and neural networks. Peter Howitt was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics in 2025 for explaining innovation-driven economic growth. Anne Carson was honored with the Nobel Prize in literature in 2026 for her bold and inventive oeuvre that created new forms for contemporary literature.