List of Danish Nobel laureates

This is a list of Danish Nobel laureates. Since the Nobel Prize was established per the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895, 12 of the prize winners have been from Denmark. The first Danish Nobel laureate was Niels Ryberg Finsen, who won a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1903 for his work in using light therapy to treat diseases. The most recent Danish Nobel Prize winner was Jens Skou who won the prize in chemistry for his discovery over the enzyme, Na+/K+-ATPase in 1997. To date, of the 12 Nobel Prizes won by Danish people, 5 have been for medicine, 3 have been for physics, 2 have been for chemistry, 1 has been for literature and one has been for peace.

Laureates

#	Year	Winner	Field
1	1903	Neils Ryberg Finsen	Medicine
2	1908	Fredrik Bajer	Peace
3	1917	Karl Adolph Gjellerup	Literature
4	1920	August Krogh	Medicine
5	1922	Niels Bohr	Physics
6	1926	Johannes Fibiger	Medicine
7	1943	Carl Peter Henrik Dam	Medicine
8	1944	Johannes Jensen	Literature
9 & 10	1975	Aage Bohr and Ben Roy Mottelson	Physics
11	1984	Niels Kaj Jerne	Medicine
12	1997	Jens Skou	Chemistry