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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2024
Nobel Prize in Peace 2024The 2024 award linked this prize to Nihon Hidankyo. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2024
Nobel Prize in Physics 2024The 2024 award linked this prize to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2025
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025The 2025 award linked this prize to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2025
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025The 2025 award linked this prize to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2025
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025The 2025 award linked this prize to László Krasznahorkai. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2025
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025The 2025 award linked this prize to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2025
Nobel Prize in Peace 2025The 2025 award linked this prize to Maria Corina Machado. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.
2025
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025The 2025 award linked this prize to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.