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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.

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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

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1947–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover (1947–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (2004). 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.
1947–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Roger D. Kornberg
Roger D. Kornberg (1947–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (2006). 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.
1947–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (2008). 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.
1947–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Martin Chalfie
Martin Chalfie (1947–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (2008). 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.
1947–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Michael Levitt
Michael Levitt (1947–present) 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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Giorgio Parisi
Giorgio Parisi (1948–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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Steven Chu
Steven Chu (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1997). 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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
William D. Phillips
William D. Phillips (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1997). 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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Hartmut Michel
Hartmut Michel (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (1988). 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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Peace (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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Al Gore
Al Gore (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Peace (2007). 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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Christopher A. Pissarides
Christopher A. Pissarides (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Economic Sciences (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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Randy W. Schekman
Randy W. Schekman (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexievich (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Oliver Hart
Oliver Hart (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Economic Sciences (2016). 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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
James P. Allison
James P. Allison (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (2018). 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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Akira Yoshino
Akira Yoshino (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (2019). 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.
1948–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Paul R. Milgrom
Paul R. Milgrom (1948–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Economic Sciences (2020). 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.
1949–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Horst L. Störmer
Horst L. Störmer (1949–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1998). 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.
1949–… (as of 2026-09-01)
José Ramos-Horta
José Ramos-Horta (1949–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Peace (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.
1949–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Sir Paul Nurse
Sir Paul Nurse (1949–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (2001). 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.
1949–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Peter Agre
Peter Agre (1949–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (2003). 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.
1949–… (as of 2026-09-01)
H. David Politzer
H. David Politzer (1949–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (2004). 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.
1949–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Bengt Holmström
Bengt Holmström (1949–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Economic Sciences (2016). 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.
1949–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Michael W. Young
Michael W. Young (1949–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (2017). 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.
1949–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Michael Houghton
Michael Houghton (1949–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (2020). 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.
1950–… (as of 2026-09-01)
J. Georg Bednorz
J. Georg Bednorz (1950–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1987). 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.
1950–… (as of 2026-09-01)
Russell A. Hulse
Russell A. Hulse (1950–present) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (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.