| Year of award |
Category |
Name |
Relation to Russia (USSR) |
| 1903 |
Physics |
Marie Curie (born Marie Sklodowska) |
Born in Warsaw (Russian part of Poland) |
| 1904 |
Physiology and medicine |
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov |
Subject of the Russian Empire; later a citizen of the USSR |
| 1905 |
Literature |
Henryk Sienkiewicz |
Born in the Russian part of Poland; subject of the Russian Empire |
| 1908 |
Physiology and medicine |
Ilya Ilich Mechnikov |
Subject of the Russian Empire |
| 1911 |
Chemistry |
Marie Curie |
Born in Warsaw (Russian part of Poland) |
| 1933 |
Literature |
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin |
Born in Voronezh (Russian Empire); at the time of the award, a stateless person resident in France |
| 1945 |
Physiology and medicine |
Ernst Boris Chain |
Son of a native of Mogileva (Russian Empire, now Belarus) |
| 1952 |
Physiology and medicine |
Selman Abraham Waksman |
Born in Priluky (now Ukraine; left the Russian Empire are age 22) |
| 1956 |
Chemistry |
Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1958 |
Physics |
Igor Evgenevich Tamm |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1958 |
Physics |
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1958 |
Physics |
Pavel Alekseevich Cherenkov |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1958 |
Literature |
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak* |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1960 |
Physics |
Donald Arthur Glaser |
Son of a Russian woman (Russian Empire) |
| 1961 |
Chemistry |
Melvin Calvin |
Son of Russian immigrants |
| 1962 |
Physics |
Lev Davidovich Landau |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1964 |
Physics |
Nikolai Gennadievich Basov |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1964 |
Physics |
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1965 |
Physiology and medicine |
André Michel Lvov |
Son of Russian immigrants |
| 1965 |
Literature |
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1970 |
Literature |
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn |
Citizen of the USSR at the time of the award (later stripped of citizenship and expelled from the country; now a citizen of Russia) |
| 1970 |
Physiology and medicine |
Sir Bernard Katz |
Son of Russian immigrants |
| 1971 |
Economics |
Simon Smith Kuznets |
Born in Kharkov (Russian Empire, now Ukraine); left the country in 1922 |
| 1971 |
Physics |
Dennis Gabor |
Great-grandson of a Russian subject |
| 1973 |
Economics |
Vasily (Vasilevich) Leontev |
Born in St. Petersburg; left the Soviet Union after graduating from Leningrad University in 1925 |
| 1975 |
Peace Prize |
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1975 |
Economics |
Leonid Vitalevich Kantorovich |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1976 |
Literature |
Saul Bellow |
Son of Russian immigrants |
| 1977 |
Chemistry |
Ilya (Romanovich) Prigogine |
Born in Moscow (Russian Empire); left Russia at age 4 |
| 1977 |
Physiology and medicine |
Andrew Victor Schally |
Born in Wilno (Poland; later Vilnius, USSR; now Lithuania |
| 1978 |
Physics |
Petr Leonidovich Kapitsa |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1978 |
Physiology and medicine |
Daniel Nathans |
Son of Russian immigrants |
| 1979 |
Physics |
Sheldon Lee Glashow (Glukhovsky) |
Son of Russian immigrants |
| 1979 |
Chemistry |
Herbert Brown (Brovarnik) |
Son of Russian immigrants |
| 1980 |
Chemistry |
Paul Berg |
Son of a Russian immigrant |
| 1981 |
Physics |
Arthur Schawlow |
Son of a Riga native (Russian Empire, now Latvia) |
| 1981 |
Chemistry |
Roald Hoffmann (Saffran) |
Born in the city of Zloczow (Poland; later Zolochev, USSR; now Zolochiv, Ukraine) |
| 1982 |
Chemistry |
Aaron Klug |
Born into a family of Russian natives (Russian Empire) |
| 1982 |
Physiology and medicine |
John Vane |
Son of Russian immigrants |
| 1986 |
Physiology and medicine |
Stanley Cohen |
Son of Russian immigrants |
| 1987 |
Literature |
Joseph Brodsky |
Born in Leningrad (USSR); left the country in 1972 |
| 1988 |
Physiology and medicine |
Gertrude Bell Elion |
Daughter of Russian emigrants |
| 1990 |
Physics |
Jerome Isaac Friedman |
Son of Russian immigrants |
| 1990 |
Peace Prize |
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev |
Citizen of the USSR |
| 1995 |
Peace Prize |
Joseph Rotblat |
Born in Warsaw; subject of the Russian Empire until Poland declared independence |
| 2000 |
Physics |
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov |
Citizen of Russia |
| 2002 |
Physiology and medicine |
Robert Horwitz |
Grandson of a Russian immigrant |
| 2003 |
Physics |
Aleksei Alekseevich Abrikosov |
Citizen of Russia and the United States |
| 2003 |
Physics |
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg |
Citizen of Russia |
