List of U.K. Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
| Award winner | Award | Reason for the award |
| Peter Ratcliffe | 2019 | Together with the Americans Gregg Semenza and William George Kaelin for their discovery of the molecular mechanisms with which cells perceive the oxygen content and adapt to it. |
| John Michael O’Keefe (born 1939) |
2014 | British-American neuroscientist, together with the Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser for their outstanding work in researching the cellular basis for spatial orientation. |
| John Gurdon (born 1933) |
2012 | Together with the Japanese Shin`ya Yamanaka: For the reprogramming of adult body cells into a state in which they can develop into all kinds of tissue like embryonic stem cells. (iPS cells) |
| Robert Edwards (born 1925) |
2010 | For his development of in vitro fertilization |
| Martin Evans (born 1941) |
2007 | Together with US researchers Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies: For groundbreaking discoveries in the field of embryonic stem cells and DNA recombination in mammals |
| Peter Mansfield (born 1933) |
2003 | Together with the American Paul Christian Lauterbur: For their discoveries in relation to imaging with magnetic resonance |
| Sydney Brenner (born 1927) |
2002 | Together with the American H. Robert Horvitz and the British John E. Sulston: For their discoveries regarding the genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell dea |
| John E. Sulston (born 1942) |
2002 | American H. Robert Horvitz and British Sydney Brenner: For their discoveries regarding the genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell dea |
| Tim Hunt (born 1943) |
2001 | Together with the American Leland H. Hartwell and the British Paul Nurse: For their discoveries regarding the control of the cell cycle |
| Paul Nurse (born 1949) |
2001 | Together with the American Leland H. Hartwell and the British Tim Hunt: For their discoveries regarding the control of the cell cycle |
| Richard John Roberts (born 1943) |
1993 | Together with the American Phillip Allen Sharp: For their identification of the discontinuous structure of some genetic makeup of cell organisms |
| James Whyte Black (1924-2010) |
1988 | Together with the Americans Gertrude Belle Elion and George Herbert Hitchings: For their groundbreaking discoveries of important biochemical principles in drug therapy |
| César Milstein (Argentine-British molecular biologist (1927-2002) |
1984 | Together with the Dane Niels Kaj Jerne and the German Georges JF Köhler: For theories about the specific structure and control of the immune system and for the discovery of the principle of the production of monoclonal antibodies |
| John Robert Vane (1927-2004) |
1982 | Together with Swedes Sune Bergström and Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson: For their groundbreaking work on prostaglandins and closely related biologically active substances |
| Godfrey Hounsfield (1919-2004) |
1979 | Together with the American Allan McLeod Cormack: For their development of the computed tomography |
| Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988) |
1973 | Together with the German Karl von Frisch and the Austrian Konrad Lorenz: For their discoveries about the organization and triggering of individual and social behavioral patterns |
| Rodney R. Porter (1917-1985) |
1972 | Together with the American Gerald M. Edelman: For their discoveries regarding the chemical structure of antibodies |
| Bernard Katz (1911-2003) |
1970 | Together with the Swede Ulf von Euler and the American Julius Axelrod: For their discoveries of the signal substances in the contact organs of the nerve cells and the mechanisms for their storage, release and inactivation |
| Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914-1998) |
1963 | Together with the Australian John Carew Eccles and the British Andrew Fielding Huxley: For their discoveries about the ion mechanism that takes place in the peripheral and central areas of the nerve cell membrane during excitation and inhibition |
| Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012) |
1963 | Together with the Australian John Carew Eccles and the British Alan Lloyd Hodgkin: For their discoveries about the ion mechanism that takes place in the peripheral and central areas of the nerve cell membrane during excitation and inhibition |
| Francis Crick (1916-2004) |
1962 | Together with the Americans James Watson and Maurice Wilkins: For their discoveries about the molecular structure of nucleic acids and their importance for the transmission of information in living matter |
| Maurice Wilkins (British New Zealand) (1916-2004) |
1962 | Together with the Englishman Francis Crick and the American James Watson: For their discoveries about the molecular structure of nucleic acids and their importance for the transmission of information in living matter |
| Peter Brian Medawar (1915-1987) |
1960 | Together with the Australian Frank Macfarlane Burnet: For their discovery of acquired immunological tolerance |
| Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981) |
1953 | For his discovery of the citric acid cycle |
| Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) |
1945 | Together with Ernst Boris Chain and the Australian Howard W. Florey: For the discovery of penicillin and its healing properties in various infectious diseases |
| Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979) |
1945 | Together with Alexander Fleming and the Australian Howard W. Florey: For the discovery of penicillin and its healing properties in various infectious diseases |
| Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968) |
1936 | Together with the Austrian Otto Loewi: For their discoveries in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses |
| Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) |
1932 | Together with his colleague Edgar Douglas Adrian: For their discoveries in the field of the functions of neurons |
| Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889-1977) |
1932 | Together with his colleague Charles Scott Sherrington: For their discoveries in the field of the functions of neurons |
| Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947) |
1929 | Together with the Dutchman Christiaan Eijkman: For the discovery of the vitamins that promote grow |
| Archibald Vivian Hill (1886-1977 |
Awarded in 1922, received in 1923 |
Together with the German Otto Fritz Meyerhof: For his discoveries in the field of heat generation in muscles |
| Ronald Ross (1857-1932) |
1902 | For his work on malaria, through which he demonstrated how the disease gets into the organism and thus laid the foundation for successful research into this disease and its treatment methods |
