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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1984
Nobel Prize in Peace 1984The 1984 award linked this prize to Desmond Tutu. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1984
Nobel Prize in Physics 1984The 1984 award linked this prize to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1985
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985The 1985 award linked this prize to Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1985
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1985The 1985 award linked this prize to Franco Modigliani. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1985
Nobel Prize in Literature 1985The 1985 award linked this prize to Claude Simon. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1985
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1985The 1985 award linked this prize to Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1985
Nobel Prize in Peace 1985The 1985 award linked this prize to International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1985
Nobel Prize in Physics 1985The 1985 award linked this prize to Klaus von Klitzing. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1986
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986The 1986 award linked this prize to Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1986
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1986The 1986 award linked this prize to James M. Buchanan Jr.. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1986
Nobel Prize in Literature 1986The 1986 award linked this prize to Wole Soyinka. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1986
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986The 1986 award linked this prize to Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1986
Nobel Prize in Peace 1986The 1986 award linked this prize to Elie Wiesel. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1986
Nobel Prize in Physics 1986The 1986 award linked this prize to Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1987
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987The 1987 award linked this prize to Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1987
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1987The 1987 award linked this prize to Robert M. Solow. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1987
Nobel Prize in Literature 1987The 1987 award linked this prize to Joseph Brodsky. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1987
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987The 1987 award linked this prize to Susumu Tonegawa. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1987
Nobel Prize in Peace 1987The 1987 award linked this prize to Oscar Arias Sánchez. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1987
Nobel Prize in Physics 1987The 1987 award linked this prize to J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1988
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988The 1988 award linked this prize to Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1988
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1988The 1988 award linked this prize to Maurice Allais. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1988
Nobel Prize in Literature 1988The 1988 award linked this prize to Naguib Mahfouz. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1988
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988The 1988 award linked this prize to Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1988
Nobel Prize in Peace 1988The 1988 award linked this prize to United Nations Peacekeeping Forces. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1988
Nobel Prize in Physics 1988The 1988 award linked this prize to Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1989
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989The 1989 award linked this prize to Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1989
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1989The 1989 award linked this prize to Trygve Haavelmo. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1989
Nobel Prize in Literature 1989The 1989 award linked this prize to Camilo José Cela. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1989
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989The 1989 award linked this prize to J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.