Nobel Monument

The north face honors Alfred Nobel

The west face lists US laureates up to 1979; the museum is in the background

The Nobel Monument is an obelisk in honor of U.S. Nobel laureates, located just northwest of the American Museum of Natural History in Theodore Roosevelt Park in Manhattan (New York City), with the names of U.S. laureates of the Nobel Prize engraved on its western, southern, and eastern sides, and the name and image of Alfred Nobel on the north side. It is the only monument in a New York City park which bears the names of living people.

The west side of the monument lists Nobel laureates up to 1979, the south side continues the list through 2010, and the east side lists the laureates starting in 2011 (as can be seen in the accompanying photos), although the website of the New York City Departament of Parks incorrectly states that the south side lists the names from 1980 to the present.

The monument lists only those laureates who were U.S. citizens when they won the Nobel, so it includes naturalized immigrants such as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Roald Hoffman but neither U.S. native T. S. Eliot, who was a naturalized British subject, nor Albert Einstein, who only became a U.S. citizen years after winning. The only Nobel for which organizations as well as individuals are eligible is the Nobel Peace Prize, and the only U.S. organization to have won it is the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group, in 1947.

The south side: laureates 1980-2010

The east side: laureates since 2011

The top of the monument, showing the east & south sides