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Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine, Country Comparison

All 235 winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1901 to 2026, counted by country of birth, with the best-known faces and the three optogenetics researchers announced in 2026.

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Nobel Prize Outreach (the Nobel Prize API); Wikimedia Commons, archives, Nobel Prize pages and university sources for the portraits in the video and thumbnail. H. Gobind Khorana is counted for Pakistan, where his birthplace Raipur lies today, although the official Nobel Prize record lists India. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Nobel Foundation or Nobel Prize Outreach; Nobel Prize® is a registered trademark of the Nobel Foundation.

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