# | Person | Field | Year | Contribution |
1. | Tsung Dao Lee | Physics | 1957 | For their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles. |
2. | Chen Ning Yang | Physics | 1957 | For their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles. |
3. | Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama) | Peace | 1989 | Human rights. |
4. | Daniel C. Tsui* | Physics | 1998 | For their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations. |
5. | Gao Xingjian | Literature | 2000 | For an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama. |
6. | Charles K Kao | Physics | 2009 | For groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication. |
7. | Liu Xiaobo | Peace | 2010 | For his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. |
8. | Mo Yan | Literature | 2012 | Who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary. |
*Jointly with Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer |