October, 2008
| Nobel Peace Prize | |
| Martti Ahtisaari (For efforts over more than three decades to resolve international conflicts) | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Makoto Kobayashi (Discoveries concerning nature's broken symmetry) | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Toshihide Maskawa (Discoveries concerning nature's broken symmetry) | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Yoichiro Nambu (Discoveries concerning nature's broken symmetry) | |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Martin Chalfie (Discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein GFP) | |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Osamu Shimomura (Discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein GFP) | |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
| Roger Y Tsien (Discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein GFP) | |
| Nobel Prize in Medicine | |
| Francoise Barre-Sinoussi (Discovery of human immunodeficiency virus) | |
| Nobel Prize in Medicine | |
| Luc Montagnier (Discovery of human immunodeficiency virus) | |
| Nobel Prize in Medicine | |
| Harald zur Hausen (Discovery of human papilloma virus causing cervical cancer) | |
| Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (New departures and poetic adventure - explorer of a humanity beyond and below) | |
| Nobel Prize in Economics | |
| Paul Krugman (Having shown effects of economies of scale on trade patterns) | |