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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2004
Nobel Prize in Peace 2004The 2004 award linked this prize to Wangari Maathai. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2004
Nobel Prize in Physics 2004The 2004 award linked this prize to David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2005
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005The 2005 award linked this prize to Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2005
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005The 2005 award linked this prize to Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2005
Nobel Prize in Literature 2005The 2005 award linked this prize to Harold Pinter. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2005
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005The 2005 award linked this prize to Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2005
Nobel Prize in Peace 2005The 2005 award linked this prize to International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2005
Nobel Prize in Physics 2005The 2005 award linked this prize to Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2006
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006The 2006 award linked this prize to Roger D. Kornberg. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2006
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006The 2006 award linked this prize to Edmund S. Phelps. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2006
Nobel Prize in Literature 2006The 2006 award linked this prize to Orhan Pamuk. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2006
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006The 2006 award linked this prize to Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2006
Nobel Prize in Peace 2006The 2006 award linked this prize to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2006
Nobel Prize in Physics 2006The 2006 award linked this prize to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2007
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007The 2007 award linked this prize to Gerhard Ertl. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2007
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007The 2007 award linked this prize to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2007
Nobel Prize in Literature 2007The 2007 award linked this prize to Doris Lessing. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2007
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007The 2007 award linked this prize to Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2007
Nobel Prize in Peace 2007The 2007 award linked this prize to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2007
Nobel Prize in Physics 2007The 2007 award linked this prize to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2008
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008The 2008 award linked this prize to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2008
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008The 2008 award linked this prize to Paul Krugman. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2008
Nobel Prize in Literature 2008The 2008 award linked this prize to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2008
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008The 2008 award linked this prize to Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2008
Nobel Prize in Peace 2008The 2008 award linked this prize to Martti Ahtisaari. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2008
Nobel Prize in Physics 2008The 2008 award linked this prize to Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2009
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009The 2009 award linked this prize to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2009
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009The 2009 award linked this prize to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2009
Nobel Prize in Literature 2009The 2009 award linked this prize to Herta Müller. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2009
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009The 2009 award linked this prize to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.