List of Asian Nobel laureates – Physics
As of 2019, there are 19 Asians or Asian Americans who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with the Japanese comprising the most with 8 laureates.
| Year | Image | Laureate | Country at the time of the award | Category | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Kenichi Fukui |  Japan | Chemistry | ||
| 1986 | Yuan T. Lee |  Taiwan and  United States | Chemistry | ||
| 1987 | Charles J. Pedersen | United States | Chemistry | ||
| 2000 | Hideki Shirakawa | Japan | Chemistry | ||
| 2001 | Ryōji Noyori | Japan | Chemistry | ||
| 2002 | Koichi Tanaka | Japan | Chemistry | ||
| 2004 | Aaron Ciechanover |  Israel | Chemistry | ||
| 2004 | Avram Hershko | Israel | Chemistry | ||
| 2008 | Osamu Shimomura | Japan | Chemistry | ||
| 2008 | Roger Y. Tsien | United States | Chemistry | ||
| 2009 | Venki Ramakrishnan |  United Kingdom and United States | Chemistry | ||
| 2009 | Ada Yonath | Israel | Chemistry | ||
| 2010 | Ei-ichi Negishi | Japan | Chemistry | ||
| 2010 | Akira Suzuki | Japan | Chemistry | ||
| 2011 | Dan Shechtman | Israel | Chemistry | ||
| 2013 | Arieh Warshel | Israel and United States | Chemistry | ||
| 2013 | Michael Levitt | Israel, United Kingdom and United States | Chemistry | ||
| 2015 | Aziz Sancar |  Turkey and United States | Chemistry | ||
| 2019 | Akira Yoshino | Japan | Chemistry |