List of Armenian Nobel laureates
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Three individuals of Armenian ethnicity or ancestry have won Nobel Prizes since 2020. The following is a complete list of Nobel laureates of Armenian descent:
| Year | Image | Laureate | Born | Field | Citation | Ancestry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 |  |
Emmanuelle Charpentier | 1968 in France | Chemistry | "developed a method for high-precision genome editing."[1] | partial ancestry (Armenian paternal grandfather)[2] |
| 2021 | .jpg) |
Ardem Patapoutian | 1967 in Lebanon | Physiology or Medicine | "investigated how pressure is translated into nerve impulses."[3] | full ancestry (both parents of Lebanese Armenian descent) |
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Daron Acemoglu | 1967 in Turkey | Economics | "have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity."[4] | full ancestry (both parents of Turkish Armenian descent) |
Dork Sahagian contributed to three of four assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former vice president Al Gore. He described his contribution as "only very minor, involving humanity’s effect on sea level rise."[5][6]
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