

(awarded together with Japanese chemists Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki) "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" (awarded together with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov)ġ5 August 1931 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace." Jasmin Nario-Galace and Loreta Navarro-Castro being members of the 2017 Nobel laureate International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).being members of the 2013 Nobel laureate Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Perez and Rodel Diaz Lasco being members and contributors of the 2007 Nobel laureate International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Jose Ramon Villarin, Rex Victor Cruz, Juan M.Vivian Talambiras-Cruz being part of the 2005 Nobel laureate International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).the Philippine Campaign to Ban Landmines being member of the 1997 Nobel laureate International Campaign to Ban Landmines.the UNICEF Philippines being part of the 1965 Nobel laureate UNICEF.the Philippine Red Cross being part of the 1963 Nobel laureate League of Red Cross Societies.Laureates ĭespite 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:

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". Hence, the lack of Nobel laureates from the country. According to OPCW member Franz Ontal, winning the Nobel Prize is the last thing a Filipino could think of.

īefore Ressa's win, Filipinos speculated multiple times when and who will be the first to win from their country. 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. 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." The Nobel Prize medal received by the laureates
