List of Belgian Nobel laureates

This a list of the Belgian Nobel laureates

Year	Laureate	Field	Life	Citation
2013	François Englert	Physics	1932–	"for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider" shared with Peter Higgs
1977	Ilya Prigogine	Chemistry	1917–2003	"for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures"
1974	Albert Claude and Christian De Duve	Physiology or Medicine	1898–1983 (Claude) 1917–2013 (De Duve)	"for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell" with George E. Palade
1958	Dominique Pire	Peace	1910–1969	No citation
1938	Corneille Heymans	Physiology or Medicine	1892–1968	"for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration"
1919	Jules Bordet	Physiology or Medicine	1870–1961	"for his discoveries relating to immunity"
1913	Henri La Fontaine	Peace	1854-1943	No citation
1911	Maurice Maeterlinck	Literature	1862-1949	"in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations"
1909	Auguste Marie François Beernaert	Peace	1911-2003	With Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant (no citation)
1904	Institut de Droit International	Peace	Founded 1873	No citation

See also

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