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Nobel Prize-winning Canadians through 2026, including economics and literature

Nobel Prize-winning Canadians through 2026, including economics and literature

The list concludes with Nobel Prize recognitions shared by Canadians in economic sciences and awards in literature and physics up to 2026.

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David Card shared the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2021 for pioneering research on “labour-market impacts of minimum wage, immigration and education.”

Geoffrey Hinton, described as the “godfather of AI,” shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 2024 for work that laid the foundation for machine learning and neural networks.

Peter Howitt shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics in 2025 for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth.”

Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2026 for her “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

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