List of Venezuelan Nobel laureates
Two Venezuelan citizens have been associated with a Nobel Prize: the immunologist Baruj Benacerraf who was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine alongside French immunologist Jean Dausset and American immunologist George Davis Snell, and the politician María Corina Machado, who received the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democratic rights in Venezuela and working toward a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Laureates
| Year | Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Field | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Baruj Benacerraf | 29 October 1920 Caracas, Venezuela |
2 August 2011 Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions"
(awarded together with French immunologist Jean Dausset and American immunologist George Davis Snell) | |
| 2025 | María Corina Machado | 7 October 1967 Caracas, Venezuela |
Peace | "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" |
Nominations
Venezuelans started receiving nominations in 1908. There are also other purported nominees whose nominations are yet to be verified since the archives are revealed 50 years after,[1] including the Venezuelan human rights organization Foro Penal, which has been reportedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016 and 2019.[2][3][4]
| Image | Nominee[5] | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Literature | |||||
| Julio Calcaño | 4 December 1840
Caracas, Venezuela |
18 August 1918
Caracas, Venezuela |
1908 | ||
| Rufino Blanco Fombona | 17 June 1874
Caracas, Venezuela |
16 October 1944
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1935 | [6] | |
| Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo | 19 September 1887
Los Teques, Venezuela |
1959
Caracas, Venezuela |
1930 | [7] | |
| Rómulo Gallegos | 2 August 1884
Caracas, Venezuela |
5 April 1969
Caracas, Venezuela |
1951, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967 | [8] | |
| Wilhelm Lehmann | 4 May 1882
Puerto Cabello, Venezuela |
17 November 1968
Eckernförde, Germany |
1960 | [9] | |
| Robert Ganzo | 22 August 1898
Caracas, Venezuela |
6 April 1995
Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
1970 | ||
| Peace | |||||
| Carlos Medina Chirinos | Venezuela | Venezuela | 1926 | [10] | |
See also
References
- ^ Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates Archived 2022-06-10 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
- ^ "Foro Penal Venezolano, nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz". La Patilla. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ "Foro Penal Venezolano nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz - El Carabobeño". El Carabobeño (in European Spanish). 4 October 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ "Foro Penal fue nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz". VPItv (in Spanish). 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ^ The (*) asterisks on the name denote the nominees were expatriates who resided or died in Brazil.
- ^ "Nomination Archive - Rufino Blanco-Fombona". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ "Nomination Archive - Clotilde de Arvelo". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ "Nomination Archive - Romulo Gallegos". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ "Nomination Archive - Wilhelm Lehmann". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ "Nomination Archive – Carlos Median Chirinos". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 21 January 2021.