Nobel Prize Winners: Laureates, Categories & Motivations

Search official Nobel Prize data by year range and category (physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, economics). Returns award year, category, date awarded, prize amount (nominal and inflation-adjusted), laureate names and the official motivation. Free open data (CC0), no API key.

What does Nobel Prize Winners do?

Nobel Prizes by year and category with laureates, prize amounts and the official motivation text.

What can you use it for?

• Build quiz, trivia and education content.
• Enrich research-history datasets.
• Analyse prize trends by field and decade.
• Feed knowledge graphs with laureate data.

Why use this Actor?

• Fast and cheap: lightweight HTTP-based Actor with no browser, so runs finish in seconds and cost very little.
• No API keys or accounts needed for the data source (see notes below).
• Clean, structured JSON that you can export as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or pull through the Apify API and integrations.
• Scheduling, webhooks and integrations: run it daily and send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, n8n or your own API.

Input

Configure the run in the Input tab (all fields have sensible defaults).

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
yearFrom	integer	yes	-	First award year, e.g. 2015.
yearTo	integer	no	-	Last award year (optional).
category	string (phy / che / med / lit / pea / eco)	no	-	Limit to one prize category.
maxResults	integer	no	50	Maximum number of results.

Example input

{
  "yearFrom": 2015,
  "maxResults": 50
}

Output

Results are stored in the default dataset. Download them from the Output tab or via the API.

Example result

{
  "awardYear": 2015,
  "category": "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry",
  "dateAwarded": "2015-10-07",
  "prizeAmount": 8000000,
  "prizeAmountAdjusted": 10602571,
  "laureates": "Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, Aziz Sancar",
  "motivation": "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-26T04:49:18.643Z"
}

Output fields

Field	Type	Example
awardYear	number	2015
category	string	"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry"
dateAwarded	string	"2015-10-07"
prizeAmount	number	8000000
prizeAmountAdjusted	number	10602571
laureates	string	"Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, Aziz Sancar"
motivation	string	"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
scrapedAt	string	"2026-09-26T04:49:18.643Z"

How much does it cost?

The Actor is billed by Apify according to the pricing shown on the Pricing tab of this page. Runs are small and fast, and the Apify Free plan includes monthly platform credits so you can try it at no cost. You can set a maximum cost per run, and the Actor stops cleanly when that limit is reached.

Notes and limitations

• Data comes from the official Nobel Prize API and is CC0.

Tips

• Start with a small test run, then scale up the input.
• Use Schedules to automate recurring runs and Webhooks or Integrations to deliver the data where you need it.
• Call the Actor from your code with the Apify API or the official JavaScript and Python clients.

FAQ

Does it include shared prizes?

Yes. Every laureate of a prize is listed in one row with their motivation.

Feedback

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue from the Issues tab of this Actor and it will be looked at quickly.

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