Scientist Michael Houghton has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine for his work with the hepatitis C virus. While Houghton was born in Britain, he studies at the University of Alberta and it’s the first time Canadian medical science has been so recognized in nearly a century. Here is a list of Canadians who have won the Nobel Prize:

1923: Frederick G. Banting, Medicine, for the “discovery of insulin”

1923

1949: William F. Giauque, Chemistry, for “contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures”

1949

1957: Former prime minister Lester Bowles Pearson, Peace, for his role in defusing the 1956 Suez crisis

1957

1966: Charles B. Huggins, Nobel Prize, Medicine, for “his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer”

1966

1971: Gerhard Herzberg,Chemistry, for “his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals.”

1971

1976: Saul Bellow,Literature, for “the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work”

1976

1981: David H. Hubel,Medicine, for “discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system”

1981

1983: Henry Taube, Chemistry, for “his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes”

1983

1986: John Polanyi, Chemistry, for “contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.”

1986

1989: Sidney Altman, Chemistry ,for “discovery of catalytic properties of RNA

1989

1990: Richard E. Taylor, Physics, for “investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics”

1990

1992: Rudolph A. Marcus, Chemistry, for “his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems”

1992

1993: Michael Smith, Chemistry, for “his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies.”

1993

1994: Bertram N. Brockhouse, Physics, for “the development of neutron spectroscopy”

1994

1996: William Vickrey, Economic Sciences, for “contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information”

1996

1997: Myron S. Scholes, Economic Sciences, for “a new method to determine the value of derivatives”

1997

1999: Robert A. Mundell, Economic Sciences, for “his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas”

1999

2009: Willard S. Boyle, Physics, for “the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit — the CCD sensor”

2009

2011: Ralph M. Steinman, Medicine, for “his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity”

2011

2013: Alice Munro,Literature, for being the “master of the contemporary short story”

2013

2015: Arthur B. McDonald,Physics, for “the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”

2015

2018: Donna Strickland, Physics, for co-developing a “method of generating high-intensity, ultrashort optical pulses”

2018

2019: James Peebles,Physics, for physical cosmology, laying out the chemical makeup of the universe at its beginning and later explaining the way that galaxies are formed.

2019

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 5, 2020.