Following is a list of Nobel laureates who are either Pakistani or were born in the region that is now Pakistan but are not Pakistani by nationality.
, the list of Pakistani Nobel laureates consists of following people.[1]
| Year | Portrait | Laureate | Subject | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Abdus Salam | Physics | Awarded jointly to Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg – "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current"[2] [3] | ||
| 2014 | Malala Yousafzai | Peace | Awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai – "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education."[4] |
The laureates below were born in the part of British Raj that became Pakistan but are not Pakistani by nationality. Both Khorana and Chansrasekhar were Hindus who emigrated to India.
| Year | Laureate | Country | Subject | Rationale | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Har Gobind Khorana (born in Raipur, Punjab Province, British India) | Physiology or Medicine | Awarded along with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg – "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis."[5] | |||
| 1983 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (born in Lahore, Punjab Province, British India) | Physics | "For his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars."[6] | |||