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.
13. Fraser Stoddart
Sir James Fraser Stoddart was born and brought up in Edinburgh and is currently Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the USA. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016 for "the design and synthesis of molecular machines". | Getty Images
14. David Thouless
Born just ourside Glasgow in Bearsden, David Thouless was a physicist who won the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics for "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter". | Getty Images
15. Alexander Todd
Born in the Cathcart area of Glasgow, Alexander Todd's father worked on the Glasgow Subway. He became a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1957 for his research on "the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes". | Getty Images
16. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was born in Midlothian and was a physicist and meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his invention of the cloud chamber - a particle detector used for visualizing the passage of ionizing radiation. | Getty Images