List of atheist Nobel laureates

This list comprises historic laureates of the Nobel Prize, who self-identified as atheist, agnostic, nonbeliever or secular spiritual.
Nobel Prize Laureates
* Albert Einstein - although the majority of his life he identified himself as Jewish, at the end of his life he became an atheist. Einstein used many labels to describe , including "agnostic" "religious nonbeliever" and a believer in "." He himself however rejected other labels like "atheist" and "pantheist".
* Alva Myrdal
* Anatole France
* André Lwoff
* Aung San Suu Kyi
* Baruj Benacerraf
* Bertrand Russell - identified himself as either agnostic or atheist.
* Bjornstjerne Bjornson
* Carl von Ossietzky
* Charles Laveran
* Charles Richet
* Charles Scott Sherrington
* Christian de Duve
* Dario Fo
* Edmond H. Fischer
* Emily Green Balch
* Ernest Hemingway
* Erwin Schrödinger
* Eugene O'Neill
* Francis Crick
* François Jacob shortly after his bar mitzvah he became an atheist.
* Fridtjof Nansen
* Gao Xingjian
* George Bernard Shaw
* Harold W. Kroto
* Henrik Pontoppidan
* Herbert Hauptman
* Herbert J. Muller
* Jack Steinberger
* James Dewey Watson
* Jane Addams
* Jean-Marie Lehn
* Jean-Paul Sartre
* Jens Christian Skou
* John Bardeen
* John Galsworthy
* John Livermore
* John Steinbeck
* José Saramago
* Klas Pontus Arnoldson
* Linus Pauling
* Ludwig Quidde
* Marie Curie
* Mario Molina
* Michael Smith
* Murray Gell-Mann
* Norman Angell
* Octavio Paz
* Paul D. Boyer
* Paul Nurse
* Pierre Curie
* Rene Cassin
* Richard P. Feynman
* Robert Millikan
* Ronald Ross
* Samuel Beckett
* Selma Lagerlof
* Sinclair Lewis
* Steven Weinberg
* Svante August Arrhenius
* Theodore Mommsen
* Thomas Mann
* Vitaly Ginzburg
* William Faulkner
* Wole Soyinka

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