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.
9. David MacMillan
Born in the North Lanarkshire town of Bellshill, Sir David MacMillan is a chemist who shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in "the development of asymmetric organocatalysis". | TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Ima
10. James Mirrlees
Born in the village of Minnigaff, in Kirkcudbrightshire, Sir James Mirrlees was a British economist who won the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his "fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information". | Getty Images
11. William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay was born and grew up in Glasgow. He was a chemist who discovered the noble gases and won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air". | Getty Images
12. Ronald Ross
Born in India, Sir Ronald Ross' father was Scottish officer General Sir Campbell Claye Grant Ross, who was descended from the chiefs of Clan Ross. He was a medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria. | Getty Images