The Nobel Prizes and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which began in 1969, is a set of award based on Alfred Nobel's will given to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind." Since 1901, the prestigious Swedish Prize have been awarded 609 times to 975 people and 27 organizations including a Vietnamese diplomat.
The first and only Vietnamese Nobel laureate was Lê ÃÂức Thá» when he was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Henry Kissinger. But, Tho rejected the awarded claiming "peace has not yet really been established in South Vietnam."
The following Vietnam-based organizations are members of a larger organization that are Nobel laureates.
Since 1967, Vietnamese citizens started receiving nominations for the prestigious Swedish Prize in any category. The following list are the nominees with verified nominations from the Nobel Committee and recognized international organizations. There are also other purported nominees whose nominations are yet to be verified since the archives are revealed 50 years after, among them: