Nobel Peace Prize winners and categories

Nelson Mandela and FW DeKlerk receiving their Nobel Peace prize

There are six different categories in which Nobel Prizes are awarded each year. Alfred Nobel specified five of these in 1895, with the sixth being introduced by the Bank of Sweden in 1968 ...read more

- Categories and number of South African's Awarded are shown below:

- Chemistry: 1 South African

- Economic Sciences

- Literature: 2 South Africans

- Peace: 4 South Africans

- Physics

- Physiology or Medicine: 3 South Africans

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