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List of Muslim Nobel Laureates

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Peace

Year	image	Laureate	Country and profession	Rationale	comment
1978		Anwar al-Sadat(25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981)	Egyptianpolicymaker	He, beside national leader was awarded 1978 Alfred Bernhard Nobel Peace Prize “for their contribution to the 2 frame agreements on peace within the Mideast, and on peace between Egypt and Israel, that were signed at Camp David on day, 1978”.	The first Muslim to receive a Nobel Prize.
1994		Yasser Arafat(24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004)	Palestinianpolitician	The 1994 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded conjointly to solon,Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin “for their efforts to make peace within the Middle East”.	The first Muslim Palestinian to receive a Nobel Prize.
2003		Shirin Ebadi(born 21 June 1947)	IranianHuman Rights Activist	The 2003 Alfred Bernhard Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Ebadi “for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has targeted particularly on the struggle for the rights of ladies and children”.	The 1st and solely Iranian to receive a accolade. She was also the primary Muslim girl to receive such associate honor.
2005		Mohamed El Baradei(born June 17, 1942)	Egyptianpolicymaker	The 2005 nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to El Baradeiand International Atomic Energy Agency “for their efforts to stop atomic energy from getting used for military purposes and to ensure that atomic energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest doable way”.	He was the second Egyptian to be awarded Nobel Peace Prize(2005).
2006		Muhammad Yunus(born 28 June 1940)	Bangladeshieconomist and founding father of Grameen Bank.	The 2006 nobel Peace Prize was put together awarded to Yunus and Grameen Bank “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below”.	The first and solely Bengali Muslim to receive such an honor. he is also the onlyBangladeshi and overall the third Bengali to win such a gift.
2011		Tawakel Karman(born 7 February 1979)	Human rights activistbased inYemen. A prominent leader in the Arab Spring.	The 2011 chemist Peace Prize was conjointly given to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Karman “for their non-violent struggle for the protection of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”.	The 1st Arab lady and first and onlyYemeni to receive a accolade. She is additionally the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate.

Literature

Year	image	Laureate	Country and profession	Rationale	comment
1988		Naguib Mahfouz (11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006)	Egyptian author, noted for his contribution to modern Arabic literature	The 1988 Nobel prize in Literature was given to Naguib Mahfouz “who, through works rich in import - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind”.	The 1st Muslim author to receive such a prize.
2006		Orhan Pamuk(born 7 June 1952)	Turkish authorfamous for his books My Name is Red and Snow	The 2006 Nobel prize in Literature was awarded to Orhan Pamuk “who in the look for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and complex of cultures”.	The first and only Turk to receive the Nobel Prize.

Sciences

Physics

Year	image	Laureate	Country and profession	Rationale	comment
1979		Abdus Salam (29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996)	Pakistaniphysicist	The 1979 honor in Physics was awarded together toSheldon Lee Glashow, Salam, and steven weinberg “for their contributions to the idea of the unified weak and fundamental interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current”.	He is the primary and solely Pakistani to receive the award. he is conjointly the primary Muslim person and solely man of science to be awarded the nobel prize.

Chemistry

Year	image	Laureate	Country and profession	Rationale	comment
1999		Ahmed Zewail (born February 26, 1946)	Egyptian -Americanscientist	The 1999 Nobel award in Chemistry was given to Ahmed Zewail“for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions usingfemtosecond spectroscopy”.	He is the only Muslim chemist so far to be awarded the accolade and also the second Muslim human.