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List of Filipino Nobel laureates and nominees

List of Filipino Nobel laureates and nominees

Filipino Nobel laureates and nominees


The Nobel Prizes and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences are a set of awards given, according to Alfred Nobel's will, to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind."[1]

The Nobel Prize medal received by the laureates

Since its establishment, the prize has been awarded 609 times to 975 people and 27 organizations including one Filipino Nobel laureate – Rappler journalist Maria Ressa who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov in recognition for their contributions to press freedom.[2][3] The American chemist Richard F. Heck was a long-time resident in the Philippines when he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[4][5]

Before Ressa's win, Filipinos speculated multiple times when and who will be the first to win from their country.[6] According to OPCW member Franz Ontal, winning the Nobel Prize is the last thing a Filipino could think of.[7] Hence, the lack of Nobel laureates from the country.[6]

The American news publication Foreign Policy has listed former Philippine president Corazon Aquino alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Václav Havel as people who "never won the prize, but should have".[8][9] Filipino journalist Romulo Virola noted Ramon Magsaysay, Manuel L. Quezon, Felipe Agoncillo, Concepción Felix, Josefa Llanes Escoda, Lope K. Santos, Trinidad Pardo de Tavera, Huseng Batute, Carlos Bulosan, and Zoilo Galang as "Filipinos who could have won the Nobel Prize if only they were nominated."[6]

Laureates

Despite having only one Nobel laureate, numerous Filipinos (both citizens within the country and living in overseas communities) and Philippine-based organizations were affiliated with laureate organizations of which they contributed largely and were active members at the time the organization was awarded:

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Nominations

Nominees

Since 1929, Filipinos have started to receive nominations for the prestigious Swedish prize. The following list are the nominees with verified nominations from the Nobel Committee and recognized international organizations. There are also other purported nominees whose nominations are yet to be verified since the archives are revealed 50 years after,[27] among them:

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Nominators

The following Philippines-based organizations and Filipino individuals have nominated various candidates, local and international, for the Nobel Prize.[80]

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See also

Notes

  1. The Philippine Red Cross (founded in 1947 in Manila) was admitted as a bona fide member of the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on September 17, 1947.[10]
  2. Founded in 1948 in Manila, UNICEF Philippines became one of the first UNICEF offices established in Asia.[11]
  3. The Philippine Campaign to Ban Landmines (PCBL; founded in 1995 in Manila) is a member-organization of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, together with its coordinator Jody Williams.[12]
  4. Talambiraz-Cruz (born on 2 December 1948 in Batangas City, Batangas, Philippines) was assistant to the IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since the 1980s when both her boss and the said organization won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. Like all IAEA members, she was given a certificate by the Nobel Committee.[13][14][15]
  5. Villarin (born on 30 January 1960 in Manila), through his work on greenhouse gas emissions, was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since the 1990s which, shared with U.S. Vice President Al Gore, received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.[16][17]
  6. Cruz (born on 26 August 1956) was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations, being an expert in watershed management and climate change adaptation.[18]
  7. When the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, ten Filipino activists, led by Franz Ontal (born on 27 April 1964 in Victorias, Negros Occidental, Philippines), crucially formed part in it. The members were Ontal, Criselda Javelosa van Dasler, Helen Andriessen, Gemma van Oudheusden-Voncoy, Jenniefer Balatbat, Allan Laroza, Roycelynne Reyes, Mary Ann Nieto-Schroor, Michael Conche, and Emily Castriciones.[21]
  8. Dr. Jasmin Galace (born 5 November 1964) and Dr. Loreta Navarro–Castro (born 28 March 1948) were both members of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) when it won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.[12]
  9. Prof. Richard Heck is the only foreign Nobel laureate who lived (starting in 1989) and later died in the Philippines.[23] He was married to the Filipina Socorro Nado-Heck with whom he had no children, and was an adjunct professor in chemistry at the De La Salle University, Manila.[24][25]
  10. Prof. Escultura (born on 17 April 1936 in Sorsogon, Philippines) was purportedly nominated jointly with V. Lakshmikantha (1926–2012) and S. Leela (b. 1981), both Indian professor of physics and alumni of the Florida Institute of Technology, for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for their collaboration in the development of the hybrid grand unified theory.[28]
  11. Dr. Otto Schöbl was a bacteriologist and pathologist born and raised in Czechoslovakia, educated in Austria, engaged in research work in the United States and for the Philippine Government for almost 20 years, and died a Japanese citizen. His nomination for the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology was made while he was resident Chief of Philippine Bureau of Science in Manila.[46]
  12. "Pacita Icasiano-Habana led a group of professors, including Carmela Dayrit Ortigas and Asuncion Ordoñez Sison, from the Far Eastern University in nominating the poet Jose Garcia Villa.
  13. The 27 Filipinas who formed part in the 1000 PeaceWomen were Maria Lorenzo "Binky" Dalupan-Palm (born 1952), Cecile Guidote-Alvarez (born 1943), Miriam "Dedet" Suacito (born 1959), Corazon "Dinky" Juliano-Soliman (1953–2021), Adoracion "Dory" Cruz-Avisado (1952–2016), Delia Ediltrudes "Duds" Santiago-Locsin (born 1939), Eliza Gahapon del Puerto (1957–2005), Hadja Bainon Guiabar Karon (born 1953), Haydee Bofill Yorac (1941–2005), Irene Morada Santiago (born 1966), June Caridad Pagaduan-Lopez (born 1951), Loreta Navarro-Castro (born 1948), Sis. Mariani Dimaranan SFIC (1925–2005), Marilou Diaz-Abaya (1955–2012), Mary Lou Alcid (born 1955), Miriam Coronel-Ferrer (born 1959), Myla Jabilles Leguro (born 1968), Piang Tahsim Albar (born 1950), Sis. Puraperla "Pura" Sumangil, A.A. (born 1941), Ana Theresia "Risa" Hontiveros-Baraquel (born 1966), Seiko Bodios Ohashi (born 1960), Sis. Mary Soledad Perpiñan RGS (1937–2011), Teresa Banaynal Fernandez (born 1953), Teresita "Tessy" Ang-See (born 1949), Teresita "Ging" Quinto-Deles (born 1948), Zenaida Brigida "Briggs" Hamada-Pawid (born 1942), and Zenaida "Zeny" Tan Lim (born 1951).[72]
  14. Maria Ressa was nominated jointly with the Reporters Without Borders and Committee to Protect Journalists by Norwegian labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The politician recognized Ressa for her critical coverage of President Rodrigo Duterte's administration.[76]
  15. Tauli-Corpuz, together with the Ecuadorian activist Juan Carlos Jintiach, was included in the Peace Research Institute Oslo's shortlist of Nobel Peace Prize worthy candidates for the year 2023.

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