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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| Europe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 481 | 156 |
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Records and sources
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1974
Nobel Prize in Physics 1974The 1974 award linked this prize to Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1974
The statutes rule out new deliberate posthumous awardsFrom 1974, work by a person already deceased is not considered for a prize. If death occurs after the decision, the prize may still be presented; the rule distinguishes those cases from Karlfeldt in 1931 and Hammarskjöld in 1961.
1975
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975The 1975 award linked this prize to John Cornforth and Vladimir Prelog. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1975
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1975The 1975 award linked this prize to Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich and Tjalling C. Koopmans. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1975
Nobel Prize in Literature 1975The 1975 award linked this prize to Eugenio Montale. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1975
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975The 1975 award linked this prize to David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco and Howard M. Temin. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1975
Nobel Prize in Peace 1975The 1975 award linked this prize to Andrei Sakharov. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1975
Nobel Prize in Physics 1975The 1975 award linked this prize to Aage N. Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson and James Rainwater. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1976
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1976The 1976 award linked this prize to William Lipscomb. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1976
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1976The 1976 award linked this prize to Milton Friedman. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1976
Nobel Prize in Literature 1976The 1976 award linked this prize to Saul Bellow. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1976
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976The 1976 award linked this prize to Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1976
Nobel Prize in Peace 1976The 1976 award linked this prize to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1976
Nobel Prize in Physics 1976The 1976 award linked this prize to Burton Richter and Samuel C.C. Ting. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1977
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977The 1977 award linked this prize to Ilya Prigogine. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1977
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1977The 1977 award linked this prize to Bertil Ohlin and James E. Meade. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1977
Nobel Prize in Literature 1977The 1977 award linked this prize to Vicente Aleixandre. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1977
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977The 1977 award linked this prize to Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally and Rosalyn Yalow. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1977
Nobel Prize in Peace 1977The 1977 award linked this prize to Amnesty International. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1977
Nobel Prize in Physics 1977The 1977 award linked this prize to Philip W. Anderson, Sir Nevill F. Mott and John H. Van Vleck. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1978
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978The 1978 award linked this prize to Peter Mitchell. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1978
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1978The 1978 award linked this prize to Herbert Simon. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1978
Nobel Prize in Literature 1978The 1978 award linked this prize to Isaac Bashevis Singer. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1978
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1978The 1978 award linked this prize to Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1978
Nobel Prize in Peace 1978The 1978 award linked this prize to Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1978
Nobel Prize in Physics 1978The 1978 award linked this prize to Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1979
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979The 1979 award linked this prize to Herbert C. Brown and Georg Wittig. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1979
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1979The 1979 award linked this prize to Theodore W. Schultz and Sir Arthur Lewis. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1979
Nobel Prize in Literature 1979The 1979 award linked this prize to Odysseus Elytis. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1979
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979The 1979 award linked this prize to Allan M. Cormack and Godfrey N. Hounsfield. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.