This year's Nobel Peace Prize was recently awarded to Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for "her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all".
She became the latest recipient of the awards created according to the will of Sir Alfred Noble in 1875, who also lent his name to the prizes.
The Nobel Prize is split into six categories - across Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace and Economics. science, literature, and peace.
They were first awarded in 1901 and in the preceding 122 years a total of 16 Scots have been recognised.
Here's Scotland's roll of honour.
5. Arthur Henderson
Glaswegian Arthur Henderson (pictured with British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald at the doors of 10 Downing Street) was an iron moulder and Labour politician who served three separate terms as Leader of the Labour Party in three different decades. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 for his efforts to try and stop the aggression that would eventually lead to the outbreak of World War II - working with the World League of Peace and chairing the Geneva Disarmament Conference. | Getty Images
6. Richard Henderson
Educated at Hawick High School, Boroughmuir High School and the University of Edinburgh, Richard Henderson is a molecular biologist and biophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2017 for his pioneering work in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules. | AFP via Getty Images
7. John Michael Kosterlitz
Aberdeen-born John Michael Kosterlitz is a professor of physics at Brown University in the USA. He won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2016 for his work on condensed matter physics. The Kosterlitz Centre at the University of Aberdeen is named in honour of his father, Hans Kosterlitz, a pioneering biochemist specializing in endorphins. | AFP via Getty Images
8. John Macleod
Born in Clunie, in Perthshire, and brought up in Aberdeen, John Macleod was a biochemist and physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923 for his part in the discovery of insulin. | Getty Images