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Canada's Nobel Prize winners through history

Nobel Prize winners Canadian laureates scientific achievements Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Prize in medicine

A historical record details the various Canadian recipients of the Nobel Prize across multiple disciplines. Notable winners include Frederick G. Banting, who received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1923 for the discovery of insulin, and former prime minister Lester Bowles Pearson, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for his role in defusing the 1956 Suez crisis.

In the field of chemistry, laureates include William F. Giauque (1949), Gerhard Herzberg (1971), Henry Taube (1983), John Polanyi (1986), Sidney Altman (1989), Rudolph A. Marcus (1992), and Michael Smith (1993). Other significant recognitions include Saul Bellow in literature (1976), David H. Hubel in medicine (1981), Charles B. Huggins in medicine (1966), and Richard E. Taylor in physics (1990).

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List of Canadians who have won the Nobel Prize [winnipeg.citynews.ca]
List of Canadians who have won the Nobel Prize [calgary.citynews.ca]