List of Pakistani Nobel laureates
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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.
Laureates
Pakistani citizens
As of 2022[update], the list of Pakistani Nobel Prize 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] |
Nobel laureates born in the region that later became Pakistan
The laureates below were born in the region of Pakistan during the British Raj period.
| Year | Laureate | Country | Subject | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 |  |
Har Gobind Khorana (born in Raipur, Punjab Province, British India) |
 United States |
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) |
United States |
Physics | "For his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars."[6] |