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)
View distribution by region and period
| Region | Before 3000 BCE | 3000–1 BCE | 1–1499 | 1500–1799 | 1800–1899 | 1900–1999 | Since 2000 |
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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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1969
Nobel Prize in Peace 1969The 1969 award linked this prize to International Labour Organization. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1969
Nobel Prize in Physics 1969The 1969 award linked this prize to Murray Gell-Mann. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1970
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1970The 1970 award linked this prize to Luis Leloir. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1970
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1970The 1970 award linked this prize to Paul A. Samuelson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1970
Nobel Prize in Literature 1970The 1970 award linked this prize to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1970
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970The 1970 award linked this prize to Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler and Julius Axelrod. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1970
Nobel Prize in Peace 1970The 1970 award linked this prize to Norman Borlaug. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1970
Nobel Prize in Physics 1970The 1970 award linked this prize to Hannes Alfvén and Louis Néel. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1971
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971The 1971 award linked this prize to Gerhard Herzberg. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1971
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1971The 1971 award linked this prize to Simon Kuznets. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1971
Nobel Prize in Literature 1971The 1971 award linked this prize to Pablo Neruda. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1971
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971The 1971 award linked this prize to Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1971
Nobel Prize in Peace 1971The 1971 award linked this prize to Willy Brandt. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1971
Nobel Prize in Physics 1971The 1971 award linked this prize to Dennis Gabor. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1972
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972The 1972 award linked this prize to Christian Anfinsen, Stanford Moore and William H. Stein. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1972
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972The 1972 award linked this prize to John R. Hicks and Kenneth J. Arrow. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1972
Nobel Prize in Literature 1972The 1972 award linked this prize to Heinrich Böll. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1972
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972The 1972 award linked this prize to Gerald M. Edelman and Rodney R. Porter. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1972
Nobel Prize in Physics 1972The 1972 award linked this prize to John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper and Robert Schrieffer. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1973
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973The 1973 award linked this prize to Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1973
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1973The 1973 award linked this prize to Wassily Leontief. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1973
Nobel Prize in Literature 1973The 1973 award linked this prize to Patrick White. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1973
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973The 1973 award linked this prize to Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1973
Nobel Prize in Peace 1973The 1973 award linked this prize to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized. Le Duc Tho declined the prize.
1973
Nobel Prize in Physics 1973The 1973 award linked this prize to Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever and Brian D. Josephson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1974
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1974The 1974 award linked this prize to Paul J. Flory. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1974
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974The 1974 award linked this prize to Gunnar Myrdal and Friedrich von Hayek. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1974
Nobel Prize in Literature 1974The 1974 award linked this prize to Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1974
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974The 1974 award linked this prize to Albert Claude, Christian de Duve and George E. Palade. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1974
Nobel Prize in Peace 1974The 1974 award linked this prize to Seán MacBride and Eisaku Satō. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.