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)
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| 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 |
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2019
Nobel Prize in Peace 2019The 2019 award linked this prize to Abiy Ahmed Ali. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2019
Nobel Prize in Physics 2019The 2019 award linked this prize to James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2020
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020The 2020 award linked this prize to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2020
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020The 2020 award linked this prize to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2020
Nobel Prize in Literature 2020The 2020 award linked this prize to Louise Glück. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2020
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020The 2020 award linked this prize to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2020
Nobel Prize in Peace 2020The 2020 award linked this prize to World Food Programme. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2020
Nobel Prize in Physics 2020The 2020 award linked this prize to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2021
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021The 2021 award linked this prize to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2021
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021The 2021 award linked this prize to David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2021
Nobel Prize in Literature 2021The 2021 award linked this prize to Abdulrazak Gurnah. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2021
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021The 2021 award linked this prize to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2021
Nobel Prize in Peace 2021The 2021 award linked this prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2021
Nobel Prize in Physics 2021The 2021 award linked this prize to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2022
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022The 2022 award linked this prize to K. Barry Sharpless, Carolyn Bertozzi and Morten Meldal. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2022
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022The 2022 award linked this prize to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2022
Nobel Prize in Literature 2022The 2022 award linked this prize to Annie Ernaux. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2022
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022The 2022 award linked this prize to Svante Pääbo. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2022
Nobel Prize in Peace 2022The 2022 award linked this prize to Ales Bialiatski, Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2022
Nobel Prize in Physics 2022The 2022 award linked this prize to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2023
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023The 2023 award linked this prize to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Yekimov. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2023
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023The 2023 award linked this prize to Claudia Goldin. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2023
Nobel Prize in Literature 2023The 2023 award linked this prize to Jon Fosse. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2023
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023The 2023 award linked this prize to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2023
Nobel Prize in Peace 2023The 2023 award linked this prize to Narges Mohammadi. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2023
Nobel Prize in Physics 2023The 2023 award linked this prize to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2024
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024The 2024 award linked this prize to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2024
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024The 2024 award linked this prize to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2024
Nobel Prize in Literature 2024The 2024 award linked this prize to Han Kang. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2024
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024The 2024 award linked this prize to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.