List of Canadians who have won the Nobel Prize

Here is a list of Canadians who have won the Nobel Prize: asserted

1976: Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize in literature for “the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.’’ asserted

1990: Richard E. Taylor, Nobel Prize in physics for “investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics.” asserted

1994: Bertram N. Brockhouse, Nobel Prize in physics for “the development of neutron spectroscopy.” 1996: William Vickrey, Nobel Prize in economic sciences for “contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information.” 1997: Myron S. Scholes, Nobel Prize in economic sciences for “a new method to determine the value of derivatives.” 1999: Robert A. Mundell, Nobel Prize in economic sciences for “his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas.” 2009: Jack W. Szostak, Nobel Prize in medicine for “the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.” 2009: Willard S. Boyle, Nobel Prize in physics for “the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit _ the CCD sensor. 2011: Ralph M. Steinman, Nobel Prize in medicine for “his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.” asserted

2015: Arthur B. McDonald, Nobel Prize in physics for “the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.” asserted

2019: James Peebles, Nobel Prize in physics for physical cosmology, for laying out the chemical makeup of the universe at its beginning and later explaining the way that galaxies are formed. asserted

David Card shared the Nobel Prize in economic sciences for pioneering research on labour-market impacts of minimum wage, immigration and education. asserted

Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” shared the Nobel Prize in physics for work that laid the foundation for machine learning and neural networks. asserted

Peter Howitt, shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth.” asserted

Anne Carson, Nobel Prize in literature, for her “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature. asserted

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 8, 2026. asserted