| Year | Physics | Chemistry | Physiologyor Medicine | Literature | Peace | Prize in Economic Sciences |
| 1901 | Wilhelm Röntgen | Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff | Emil von Behring | Sully Prudhomme | Henry Dunant;Frédéric Passy | — |
| 1902 | Hendrik Lorentz;Pieter Zeeman | Emil Fischer | Ronald Ross | Theodor Mommsen | Élie Ducommun;Charles Albert Gobat |
| 1903 | Henri Becquerel;Pierre Curie;Marie Curie | Svante Arrhenius | Niels Ryberg Finsen | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Randal Cremer |
| 1904 | Lord Rayleigh | William Ramsay | Ivan Pavlov | Frédéric Mistral;José Echegaray | Institut de Droit International |
| 1905 | Philipp Lenard | Adolf von Baeyer | Robert Koch | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Bertha von Suttner |
| 1906 | J. J. Thomson | Henri Moissan | Camillo Golgi;Santiago Ramón y Cajal | Giosuè Carducci | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1907 | Albert A. Michelson | Eduard Buchner | Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran | Rudyard Kipling | Ernesto Teodoro Moneta;Louis Renault |
| 1908 | Gabriel Lippmann | Ernest Rutherford | Élie Metchnikoff;Paul Ehrlich | Rudolf Christoph Eucken | Klas Pontus Arnoldson;Fredrik Bajer |
| 1909 | Karl Ferdinand Braun;Guglielmo Marconi | Wilhelm Ostwald | Emil Theodor Kocher | Selma Lagerlöf | Auguste Beernaert;Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant |
| 1910 | Johannes Diderik van der Waals | Otto Wallach | Albrecht Kossel | Paul Heyse | International Peace Bureau |
| 1911 | Wilhelm Wien | Marie Curie | Allvar Gullstrand | Maurice Maeterlinck | Tobias Asser;Alfred Hermann Fried |
| 1912 | Gustaf Dalén | Victor Grignard;Paul Sabatier | Alexis Carrel | Gerhart Hauptmann | Elihu Root |
| 1913 | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | Alfred Werner | Charles Richet | Rabindranath Tagore | Henri La Fontaine |
| 1914 | Max von Laue | Theodore William Richards | Robert Bárány | None | None |
| 1915 | William Henry Bragg;Lawrence Bragg | Richard Willstätter | None | Romain Rolland | None |
| 1916 | None | None | None | Verner von Heidenstam | None |
| 1917 | Charles Glover Barkla | None | None | Karl Adolph Gjellerup;Henrik Pontoppidan | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| 1918 | Max Planck | Fritz Haber | None | None | None |
| 1919 | Johannes Stark | None | Jules Bordet | Carl Spitteler | Woodrow Wilson |
| 1920 | Charles Édouard Guillaume | Walther Nernst | August Krogh | Knut Hamsun | Léon Bourgeois |
| 1921 | Albert Einstein | Frederick Soddy | None | Anatole France | Hjalmar Branting;Christian Lous Lange |
| 1922 | Niels Bohr | Francis William Aston | Archibald Hill;Otto Fritz Meyerhof | Jacinto Benavente | Fridtjof Nansen |
| 1923 | Robert Andrews Millikan | Fritz Pregl | Frederick Banting;John Macleod | W. B. Yeats | None |
| 1924 | Manne Siegbahn | None | Willem Einthoven | Władysław Reymont | None |
| 1925 | James Franck;Gustav Ludwig Hertz | Richard Adolf Zsigmondy | None | George Bernard Shaw | Austen Chamberlain;Charles G. Dawes |
| 1926 | Jean Baptiste Perrin | Theodor Svedberg | Johannes Fibiger | Grazia Deledda | Aristide Briand;Gustav Stresemann |
| 1927 | Arthur Compton;Charles Thomson Rees Wilson | Heinrich Otto Wieland | Julius Wagner-Jauregg | Henri Bergson | Ferdinand Buisson;Ludwig Quidde |
| 1928 | Owen Willans Richardson | Adolf Windaus | Charles Nicolle | Sigrid Undset | None |
| 1929 | Louis de Broglie | Arthur Harden;Hans von Euler-Chelpin | Christiaan Eijkman;Frederick Gowland Hopkins | Thomas Mann | Frank B. Kellogg |
| 1930 | C. V. Raman | Hans Fischer | Karl Landsteiner | Sinclair Lewis | Nathan Söderblom |
| 1931 | None | Carl Bosch;Friedrich Bergius | Otto Heinrich Warburg | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Jane Addams;Nicholas Murray Butler |
| 1932 | Werner Heisenberg | Irving Langmuir | Charles Scott Sherrington;Edgar Adrian | John Galsworthy | None |
| 1933 | Erwin Schrödinger;Paul Dirac | None | Thomas Hunt Morgan | Ivan Bunin | Norman Angell |
| 1934 | None | Harold Urey | George Whipple;George Minot;William P. Murphy | Luigi Pirandello | Arthur Henderson |
| 1935 | James Chadwick | Frédéric Joliot-Curie;Irène Joliot-Curie | Hans Spemann | None | Carl von Ossietzky |
| 1936 | Victor Francis Hess;Carl David Anderson | Peter Debye | Henry Hallett Dale;Otto Loewi | Eugene O'Neill | Carlos Saavedra Lamas |
| 1937 | Clinton Davisson;George Paget Thomson | Norman Haworth;Paul Karrer | Albert Szent-Györgyi | Roger Martin du Gard | Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood |
| 1938 | Enrico Fermi | Richard Kuhn | Corneille Heymans | Pearl S. Buck | Nansen International Office for Refugees |
| 1939 | Ernest Lawrence | Adolf Butenandt;Leopold Ružička | Gerhard Domagk | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | None |
| 1940 | Cancelled due to World War II |
| 1941 |
| 1942 |
| 1943 | Otto Stern | George de Hevesy | Henrik Dam;Edward Adelbert Doisy | None | None |
| 1944 | Isidor Isaac Rabi | Otto Hahn | Joseph Erlanger;Herbert Spencer Gasser | Johannes V. Jensen | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| 1945 | Wolfgang Pauli | Artturi Ilmari Virtanen | Alexander Fleming;Ernst Chain;Howard Florey | Gabriela Mistral | Cordell Hull |
| 1946 | Percy Williams Bridgman | James B. Sumner;John Howard Northrop;Wendell Meredith Stanley | Hermann Joseph Muller | Hermann Hesse | Emily Greene Balch;John Mott |
| 1947 | Edward Victor Appleton | Robert Robinson | Carl Ferdinand Cori;Gerty Cori;Bernardo Houssay | André Gide | Friends Service Council;American Friends Service Committee |
| 1948 | Patrick Blackett | Arne Tiselius | Paul Hermann Müller | T. S. Eliot | None |
| 1949 | Hideki Yukawa | William Giauque | Walter Rudolf Hess;António Egas Moniz | William Faulkner | John Boyd Orr |