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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2009
Nobel Prize in Peace 2009The 2009 award linked this prize to Barack H. Obama. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2009
Nobel Prize in Physics 2009The 2009 award linked this prize to Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2010
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010The 2010 award linked this prize to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2010
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010The 2010 award linked this prize to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2010
Nobel Prize in Literature 2010The 2010 award linked this prize to Mario Vargas Llosa. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2010
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010The 2010 award linked this prize to Robert G. Edwards. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2010
Nobel Prize in Peace 2010The 2010 award linked this prize to Liu Xiaobo. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2010
Nobel Prize in Physics 2010The 2010 award linked this prize to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2011
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011The 2011 award linked this prize to Dan Shechtman. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2011
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011The 2011 award linked this prize to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2011
Nobel Prize in Literature 2011The 2011 award linked this prize to Tomas Tranströmer. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2011
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011The 2011 award linked this prize to Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized. Ralph M. Steinman had died shortly before the announcement without the committee’s knowledge; this was not a deliberate posthumous award.
2011
Nobel Prize in Peace 2011The 2011 award linked this prize to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2011
Nobel Prize in Physics 2011The 2011 award linked this prize to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2012
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012The 2012 award linked this prize to Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2012
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012The 2012 award linked this prize to Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2012
Nobel Prize in Literature 2012The 2012 award linked this prize to Mo Yan. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2012
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012The 2012 award linked this prize to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2012
Nobel Prize in Peace 2012The 2012 award linked this prize to European Union. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2012
Nobel Prize in Physics 2012The 2012 award linked this prize to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2013
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013The 2013 award linked this prize to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2013
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013The 2013 award linked this prize to Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2013
Nobel Prize in Literature 2013The 2013 award linked this prize to Alice Munro. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2013
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013The 2013 award linked this prize to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2013
Nobel Prize in Peace 2013The 2013 award linked this prize to Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2013
Nobel Prize in Physics 2013The 2013 award linked this prize to François Englert and Peter Higgs. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2014
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014The 2014 award linked this prize to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2014
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2014The 2014 award linked this prize to Jean Tirole. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2014
Nobel Prize in Literature 2014The 2014 award linked this prize to Patrick Modiano. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2014
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014The 2014 award linked this prize to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.