As of 2014, 349 Americans have won a Nobel Prize. The first was Theodore Roosevelt who the Peace Prize in 1906.
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Jimmy Carter is the only US President to win the Nobel Peace Prize after their presidential term has ended.Jimmy won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, 21 years after his last presidential term.
Watson and Crick won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for medicine for the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded 45 times to 74 recipients since its inclusion in 1969/ Only one woman has been awarded this prize. Elinor Ostrom received it in 2009 ""for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons. "
In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for fashioning a peace treaty between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. He was the first American (not just president) to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin. I believe Tupac Shakur won it with these fellows as well. In this year Tupac was shot 5 times and survived and he was set up by his best friends Puff Daddy, Biggie, and Martin Luther King. However he did not retaliate, instead he made a song about love and peace and that is how he received the Nobel Peace Prize