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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2014
Nobel Prize in Peace 2014The 2014 award linked this prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2014
Nobel Prize in Physics 2014The 2014 award linked this prize to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2015
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015The 2015 award linked this prize to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2015
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015The 2015 award linked this prize to Angus Deaton. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2015
Nobel Prize in Literature 2015The 2015 award linked this prize to Svetlana Alexievich. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2015
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015The 2015 award linked this prize to William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Tu Youyou. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2015
Nobel Prize in Peace 2015The 2015 award linked this prize to National Dialogue Quartet. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2015
Nobel Prize in Physics 2015The 2015 award linked this prize to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2016
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016The 2016 award linked this prize to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2016
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016The 2016 award linked this prize to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2016
Nobel Prize in Literature 2016The 2016 award linked this prize to Bob Dylan. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2016
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016The 2016 award linked this prize to Yoshinori Ohsumi. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2016
Nobel Prize in Peace 2016The 2016 award linked this prize to Juan Manuel Santos. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2016
Nobel Prize in Physics 2016The 2016 award linked this prize to David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2017
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017The 2017 award linked this prize to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2017
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017The 2017 award linked this prize to Richard H. Thaler. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2017
Nobel Prize in Literature 2017The 2017 award linked this prize to Kazuo Ishiguro. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2017
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017The 2017 award linked this prize to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2017
Nobel Prize in Peace 2017The 2017 award linked this prize to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2017
Nobel Prize in Physics 2017The 2017 award linked this prize to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2018
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018The 2018 award linked this prize to Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2018
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018The 2018 award linked this prize to William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2018
Nobel Prize in Literature 2018The 2018 award linked this prize to Olga Tokarczuk. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2018
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018The 2018 award linked this prize to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2018
Nobel Prize in Peace 2018The 2018 award linked this prize to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2018
Nobel Prize in Physics 2018The 2018 award linked this prize to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2019
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019The 2019 award linked this prize to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2019
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019The 2019 award linked this prize to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2019
Nobel Prize in Literature 2019The 2019 award linked this prize to Peter Handke. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2019
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019The 2019 award linked this prize to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.