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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1999
Nobel Prize in Peace 1999The 1999 award linked this prize to Doctors Without Borders. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
1999
Nobel Prize in Physics 1999The 1999 award linked this prize to Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2000
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000The 2000 award linked this prize to Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2000
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2000The 2000 award linked this prize to James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2000
Nobel Prize in Literature 2000The 2000 award linked this prize to Gao Xingjian. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2000
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000The 2000 award linked this prize to Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2000
Nobel Prize in Peace 2000The 2000 award linked this prize to Kim Dae-jung. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2000
Nobel Prize in Physics 2000The 2000 award linked this prize to Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2001
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001The 2001 award linked this prize to William Knowles, Ryoji Noyori and K. Barry Sharpless. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2001
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001The 2001 award linked this prize to George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2001
Nobel Prize in Literature 2001The 2001 award linked this prize to V. S. Naipaul. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2001
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001The 2001 award linked this prize to Leland Hartwell, Tim Hunt and Sir Paul Nurse. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2001
Nobel Prize in Peace 2001The 2001 award linked this prize to United Nations and Kofi Annan. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2001
Nobel Prize in Physics 2001The 2001 award linked this prize to Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl Wieman. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2002
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002The 2002 award linked this prize to John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka and Kurt Wüthrich. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2002
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2002The 2002 award linked this prize to Daniel Kahneman and Vernon L. Smith. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2002
Nobel Prize in Literature 2002The 2002 award linked this prize to Imre Kertész. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2002
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002The 2002 award linked this prize to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2002
Nobel Prize in Peace 2002The 2002 award linked this prize to Jimmy Carter. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2002
Nobel Prize in Physics 2002The 2002 award linked this prize to Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba and Riccardo Giacconi. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2003
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003The 2003 award linked this prize to Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2003
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2003The 2003 award linked this prize to Robert F. Engle III and Clive W.J. Granger. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2003
Nobel Prize in Literature 2003The 2003 award linked this prize to J. M. Coetzee. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2003
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003The 2003 award linked this prize to Paul C. Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2003
Nobel Prize in Peace 2003The 2003 award linked this prize to Shirin Ebadi. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2003
Nobel Prize in Physics 2003The 2003 award linked this prize to Alexei Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2004
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004The 2004 award linked this prize to Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2004
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2004The 2004 award linked this prize to Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2004
Nobel Prize in Literature 2004The 2004 award linked this prize to Elfriede Jelinek. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2004
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004The 2004 award linked this prize to Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.