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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1994
Nobel Prize in Peace 1994The 1994 award linked this prize to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1994
Nobel Prize in Physics 1994The 1994 award linked this prize to Bertram N. Brockhouse and Clifford G. Shull. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1995
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995The 1995 award linked this prize to Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1995
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1995The 1995 award linked this prize to Robert E. Lucas Jr.. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1995
Nobel Prize in Literature 1995The 1995 award linked this prize to Seamus Heaney. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1995
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995The 1995 award linked this prize to Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1995
Nobel Prize in Peace 1995The 1995 award linked this prize to Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1995
Nobel Prize in Physics 1995The 1995 award linked this prize to Martin L. Perl and Frederick Reines. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1996
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996The 1996 award linked this prize to Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto and Richard E. Smalley. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1996
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996The 1996 award linked this prize to James A. Mirrlees and William Vickrey. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1996
Nobel Prize in Literature 1996The 1996 award linked this prize to Wisława Szymborska. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1996
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996The 1996 award linked this prize to Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1996
Nobel Prize in Peace 1996The 1996 award linked this prize to Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1996
Nobel Prize in Physics 1996The 1996 award linked this prize to David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1997
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997The 1997 award linked this prize to Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker and Jens C. Skou. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1997
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1997The 1997 award linked this prize to Robert C. Merton and Myron Scholes. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1997
Nobel Prize in Literature 1997The 1997 award linked this prize to Dario Fo. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1997
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997The 1997 award linked this prize to Stanley B. Prusiner. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1997
Nobel Prize in Peace 1997The 1997 award linked this prize to International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1997
Nobel Prize in Physics 1997The 1997 award linked this prize to Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1998
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998The 1998 award linked this prize to Walter Kohn and John Pople. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1998
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998The 1998 award linked this prize to Amartya Sen. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1998
Nobel Prize in Literature 1998The 1998 award linked this prize to José Saramago. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1998
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998The 1998 award linked this prize to Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1998
Nobel Prize in Peace 1998The 1998 award linked this prize to John Hume and David Trimble. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1998
Nobel Prize in Physics 1998The 1998 award linked this prize to Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1999
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999The 1999 award linked this prize to Ahmed Zewail. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1999
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1999The 1999 award linked this prize to Robert Mundell. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1999
Nobel Prize in Literature 1999The 1999 award linked this prize to Günter Grass. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1999
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999The 1999 award linked this prize to Günter Blobel. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.