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Individual lives from all layers. The Nobel census has substantial weight; this selection does not represent everyone who contributed to historical processes.

Canonical records: 1048
Events: 0
People: 1048
Processes and periods: 0

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People (996) · Nobel laureates (990) · Medicine (233) · Physics (231) · Chemistry (201) · Literature (122) · Peace (112) · Economic Sciences (99) · Science (31) · Personas científicas (31) · British Empire (14) · Matemáticas (13)

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Canonical records by regional label and start date. These are numerical analysis bins, not universal historical periods. A multi-region record appears in multiple rows; do not add rows as a unique-record total.
Region	3000–1 BCE	1–1499	1500–1799	1800–1899	1900–1999	Since 2000
Africa	0	1	1	9	28	1
Americas	0	0	3	64	421	3
Asia	2	11	2	12	81	1
Europe	3	2	8	242	321	0
Oceania	0	0	1	5	15	0
Global / no specific region	0	0	2	0	1	0

Records and sources

Ordered by start date. Long lives and processes may begin before the period you want to study.

1929–2019
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1969). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1929–2021
Isamu Akasaki
Isamu Akasaki (1929–2021) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (2014). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1929–2025
Ivar Giaever
Ivar Giaever (1929–2025) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1973). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Jerome I. Friedman
Jerome I. Friedman (1930–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1990). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–2017
Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott (1930–2017) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (1992). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–2014
Gary Becker
Gary Becker (1930–2014) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Economic Sciences (1992). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–2016
Reinhard Selten
Reinhard Selten (1930–2016) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Economic Sciences (1994). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–2019
Zhores Alferov
Zhores Alferov (1930–2019) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (2000). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–2015
Yves Chauvin
Yves Chauvin (1930–2015) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (2005). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Robert J. Aumann
Robert J. Aumann (1930–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Economic Sciences (2005). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–2008
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (1930–2008) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (2005). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–2025
George E. Smith
George E. Smith (1930–2025) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (2009). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Akira Suzuki
Akira Suzuki (1930–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (2010). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–2024
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus (1930–2024) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (2013). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–… (as of 2026-09-01)
William C. Campbell
William C. Campbell (1930–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (2015). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–2024
Leon N. Cooper
Leon N. Cooper (1930–2024) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1972). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1930–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Tu Youyou
A Chinese pharmacologist, born in 1930, recognized for discoveries that led to artemisinin-based malaria therapies. As a living person according to the source, her life interval is left open and the work is presented as collective research.
1930–2021
Yuan Longping
A Chinese agronomist known for work on high-yield hybrid rice. This entry recognizes a long-running breeding and agricultural-adoption program, not an individual and universal solution to hunger.
1931–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Klaus Hasselmann
Klaus Hasselmann (1931–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (2021). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1931–2018
Burton Richter
Burton Richter (1931–2018) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1976). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1931–2016
James Cronin
James Cronin (1931–2016) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1980). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1931–… (as of 2026-09-01)
David M. Lee
David M. Lee (1931–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1996). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1931–2021
Martinus J.G. Veltman
Martinus J.G. Veltman (1931–2021) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1999). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1931–2025
Hamilton O. Smith
Hamilton O. Smith (1931–2025) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (1978). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1931–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (1931–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Peace (1980). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1931–2021
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu (1931–2021) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Peace (1984). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1931–2022
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Peace (1990). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1931–2019
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (1993). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1931–2018
Riccardo Giacconi
Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (2002). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.
1931–2015
Richard F. Heck
Richard F. Heck (1931–2015) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (2010). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.