Ukrainian Nobel Prize winners

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Cesar Milstein - Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1984. Argentine, but parents Ukrainian Jews

Ilya Mechnikov - Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1908

Simon Kuznets - Nobel prize for Economics in 1971

Milton Friedman. Nobel Prize for economics in 1976. Parents from Carpatho Ukraine

Herbert Brown - Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1979. Parents were born in Zhitomir

Selman Abraham Waksman - Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1953

Roald Hoffmann - Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1981. He was born in 1937 in Zloczow, Poland (now Zoloczew, Ukraine).

Georges Charpak - Nobel prize for Physics in 1992. Lives in France, he was born in Dabrovica, Ukraine.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Nobel prize for literature in 1966. Born in Buchach, Ukraine.

Mihail ┼olohov - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965. Mother was Ukrainian

Notable Ukrainian Poets-

Pavlo Tychyna, Mykola Bazhan and Vasyl Stus

When Pavlo Tychyna and Mykola Bazhan, both remarkable world-class poets, were nominated for the Nobel Prize, the Soviet Authorities forced them to write letters of refusal. A third poet, Vasyl Stus, the greatest Ukrainian post-war poet, who was imprisoned under Brezhnev, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1985 but died in a prison camp that same year