The Nobel and the modern world
An editorial selection for comparing processes, events, and lives. The interval and counts describe selected records, not the historical boundaries or importance of the subject.
- Canonical records
- 638
- Events
- 638
- People
- 0
- Processes and periods
- 0
Topics represented
Nobel Prizes (638) · Physics (119) · Literature (118) · Chemistry (117) · Physiology or Medicine (116) · Peace (106) · Economic Sciences (58) · Nobel institutions (5)
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| Africa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Americas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Asia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Europe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 481 | 156 |
| Oceania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Global / no specific region | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Records and sources
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1963
Nobel Prize in Peace 1963The 1963 award linked this prize to International Committee of the Red Cross and League of Red Cross Societies. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1963
Nobel Prize in Physics 1963The 1963 award linked this prize to Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1964
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964The 1964 award linked this prize to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1964
Nobel Prize in Literature 1964The 1964 award linked this prize to Jean-Paul Sartre. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized. Jean-Paul Sartre declined the prize.
1964
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1964The 1964 award linked this prize to Konrad Bloch and Feodor Lynen. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1964
Nobel Prize in Peace 1964The 1964 award linked this prize to Martin Luther King Jr.. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1964
Nobel Prize in Physics 1964The 1964 award linked this prize to Charles H. Townes, Nicolay G. Basov and Aleksandr M. Prokhorov. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1965
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965The 1965 award linked this prize to Robert B. Woodward. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1965
Nobel Prize in Literature 1965The 1965 award linked this prize to Mikhail Sholokhov. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1965
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965The 1965 award linked this prize to François Jacob, André Lwoff and Jacques Monod. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1965
Nobel Prize in Peace 1965The 1965 award linked this prize to United Nations Children's Fund. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1965
Nobel Prize in Physics 1965The 1965 award linked this prize to Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger and Richard P. Feynman. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1966
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966The 1966 award linked this prize to Robert S. Mulliken. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1966
Nobel Prize in Literature 1966The 1966 award linked this prize to Shmuel Agnon and Nelly Sachs. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1966
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966The 1966 award linked this prize to Peyton Rous and Charles B. Huggins. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1966
Nobel Prize in Physics 1966The 1966 award linked this prize to Alfred Kastler. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1967
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967The 1967 award linked this prize to Manfred Eigen, Ronald G.W. Norrish and George Porter. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1967
Nobel Prize in Literature 1967The 1967 award linked this prize to Miguel Angel Asturias. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1967
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1967The 1967 award linked this prize to Ragnar Granit, Keffer Hartline and George Wald. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1967
Nobel Prize in Physics 1967The 1967 award linked this prize to Hans Bethe. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1968
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968The 1968 award linked this prize to Lars Onsager. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1968
Nobel Prize in Literature 1968The 1968 award linked this prize to Yasunari Kawabata. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1968
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968The 1968 award linked this prize to Robert W. Holley, H. Gobind Khorana and Marshall W. Nirenberg. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1968
Nobel Prize in Peace 1968The 1968 award linked this prize to René Cassin. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1968
Nobel Prize in Physics 1968The 1968 award linked this prize to Luis Alvarez. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1968
Sveriges Riksbank establishes the memorial prize in Economic SciencesSweden’s central bank instituted a prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel. Its separate statutes entered into force in 1969; it is not a sixth category created by the 1895 will.
1969
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1969The 1969 award linked this prize to Derek Barton and Odd Hassel. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1969
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969The 1969 award linked this prize to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1969
Nobel Prize in Literature 1969The 1969 award linked this prize to Samuel Beckett. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1969
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969The 1969 award linked this prize to Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey and Salvador E. Luria. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.