Nobel Prize winners in Belgium

2025 single-year list · 2 laureates, by prize and field

How many Nobel Prize winners in Belgium are top-cited scientists?

2 Nobel laureates whose current affiliation is in Belgium are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the top 2% scientists list: 1 in chemistry and 1 in physiology or medicine. 2 rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Under each prize are the laureates’ main fields in the list, which can differ from the prize: pick a row to see its laureates ranked in the table of all authors.

Prize and fieldLaureatesTop 100kPrize yearsMost recent laureate
Chemistry111977Prigogine, Ilya R. 1977
Physics & Astronomy111977Prigogine, Ilya R. 1977
Physiology or Medicine111974de Duve, Christian 1974
Biomedical Research111974de Duve, Christian 1974

2 Nobel laureates in Belgium

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