The Nobel and the modern world

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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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  1. 1928

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1928

    The 1928 award linked this prize to Sigrid Undset. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  2. 1928

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1928

    The 1928 award linked this prize to Charles Nicolle. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  3. 1928

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1928

    The 1928 award linked this prize to Owen Willans Richardson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  4. 1929

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929

    The 1929 award linked this prize to Arthur Harden and Hans von Euler-Chelpin. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  5. 1929

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1929

    The 1929 award linked this prize to Thomas Mann. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  6. 1929

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929

    The 1929 award linked this prize to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Hopkins. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  7. 1929

    Nobel Prize in Peace 1929

    The 1929 award linked this prize to Frank B. Kellogg. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  8. 1929

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1929

    The 1929 award linked this prize to Louis de Broglie. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  9. 1930

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1930

    The 1930 award linked this prize to Hans Fischer. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  10. 1930

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1930

    The 1930 award linked this prize to Sinclair Lewis. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  11. 1930

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930

    The 1930 award linked this prize to Karl Landsteiner. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  12. 1930

    Nobel Prize in Peace 1930

    The 1930 award linked this prize to Nathan Söderblom. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  13. 1930

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1930

    The 1930 award linked this prize to Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  14. 1931

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1931

    The 1931 award linked this prize to Carl Bosch and Friedrich Bergius. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  15. 1931

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1931

    The 1931 award linked this prize to Erik Axel Karlfeldt. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized. The award to Erik Axel Karlfeldt was posthumous and preceded the rule adopted in 1974.

  16. 1931

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931

    The 1931 award linked this prize to Otto Warburg. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  17. 1931

    Nobel Prize in Peace 1931

    The 1931 award linked this prize to Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  18. 1932

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932

    The 1932 award linked this prize to Irving Langmuir. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  19. 1932

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1932

    The 1932 award linked this prize to John Galsworthy. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  20. 1932

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932

    The 1932 award linked this prize to Sir Charles Sherrington and Edgar Adrian. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  21. 1932

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1932

    The 1932 award linked this prize to Werner Heisenberg. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  22. 1933

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1933

    The 1933 award linked this prize to Ivan Bunin. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  23. 1933

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933

    The 1933 award linked this prize to Thomas H. Morgan. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  24. 1933

    Nobel Prize in Peace 1933

    The 1933 award linked this prize to Sir Norman Angell. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  25. 1933

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1933

    The 1933 award linked this prize to Erwin Schrödinger and Paul A.M. Dirac. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  26. 1934

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934

    The 1934 award linked this prize to Harold C. Urey. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  27. 1934

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1934

    The 1934 award linked this prize to Luigi Pirandello. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  28. 1934

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934

    The 1934 award linked this prize to George H. Whipple, George R. Minot and William P. Murphy. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  29. 1934

    Nobel Prize in Peace 1934

    The 1934 award linked this prize to Arthur Henderson. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.

  30. 1935

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935

    The 1935 award linked this prize to Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie. This event records institutional recognition; it does not date the discovery, work, or action being recognized.