Nobel Prize Laureates and Prizes by Year, Category, Country
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from $1.40 / 1,000 laureate or prize rows
Nobel laureates and prizes from the official keyless Nobel Prize API as rows: award year, category, laureate, motivation, prize share, amount, affiliation, birth and death place, age at award, Wikipedia link. Filter by year, category, birth country, gender, name. For newsrooms, teachers and agents.
Year
awardYear
Required
Year the prize was awarded. Always present.
Category
category
Required
One of the six categories, written as the source writes it and as the categories input takes it: Chemistry, Economic Sciences, Literature, Peace, Physics, Physiology or Medicine. Always present.
Prize page
url
Required
Address of the prize page for that year and category on the Nobel Prize website. Always present.
Fetched
fetchedAt
Required
When this run read the record, UTC ISO-8601. Always present.
Row shape
sourceMode
Required
Which mode produced the row: laureates (one laureate and award) or prizes (one year and category).
Laureate
name
Optional
Name of the person or organization as the source prints it. Laureates mode only.
Full name
fullName
Optional
Longer form of the name where the source has one, otherwise the same as name. Laureates mode only.
Laureate id
laureateId
Optional
The source's own identifier of the laureate, stable across years and the id this actor keys rows by. Laureates mode only.
Person or organization
laureateType
Optional
person or organization. About thirty Peace Prizes went to institutions, which carry no birth date, gender or affiliation.
Gender
gender
Optional
The gender the source records for a person: female or male. Null for organizations.
Awarded for
motivation
Optional
The committee's citation for this laureate, in English, as the source publishes it.
Category, official name
categoryFullName
Optional
The full official name of the prize, which differs from the short category for Economic Sciences and Physiology or Medicine.
Prize share
portion
Optional
Share of the prize money this laureate received, as a fraction: 1, 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4.
Status
prizeStatus
Optional
In laureates mode the source's status for this award: received, declined or restricted. In prizes mode awarded, or notAwarded for a year when the prize was withheld.
Announced
dateAwarded
Optional
Date the prize was announced, YYYY-MM-DD. Null when the source has no exact date (most years before 1950 and the years with no award).
Amount (SEK)
prizeAmount
Optional
Prize money for the whole prize in Swedish kronor of that year, not the laureate's share.
Amount, inflation adjusted (SEK)
prizeAmountAdjusted
Optional
The same amount restated in recent Swedish kronor by the source, so amounts of different years can be compared.
Prizes won
prizeCount
Optional
How many Nobel Prizes this laureate has in total, counting every year. 2 for the five double laureates. Laureates mode only.
Affiliation
affiliationName
Optional
Institution the laureate worked at when the prize was awarded, first one if the source lists several. Null for about a quarter of the awards, most Peace and Literature ones among them.
Affiliation city
affiliationCity
Optional
City of that institution as the source recorded it.
Affiliation country
affiliationCountry
Optional
Country of that institution as the source recorded it.
Born
birthDate
Optional
Date of birth, YYYY-MM-DD, or the founding date for an organization. Null when the source knows only the year.
Birth city
birthCity
Optional
Birth place as the source recorded it; the founding city for an organization.
Birth country as recorded
birthCountry
Optional
Country of birth under the name it carried then: Prussia, Austria-Hungary, Russian Empire and so on. This is the spelling the source's own filter matches.
Born in (today's name)
birthCountryNow
Optional
The same place under today's country name. Use this column for country counts; birthCountry is the historical name.
Continent
birthContinent
Optional
Continent of the birth place as the source labels it.
Died
deathDate
Optional
Date of death, YYYY-MM-DD. Null for living laureates and when the source knows only the year.
Death city
deathCity
Optional
Place of death as the source recorded it.
Death country
deathCountry
Optional
Country of death under today's name where the source has it.
Age at award
ageAtAward
Optional
Full years between the birth date and the announcement date. Null when either date is only a year.
Acronym
organizationAcronym
Optional
Short form of an organization's name where the source has one. Null for people.
Laureate page
laureatePageUrl
Optional
Address of this laureate's facts page for that award on the Nobel Prize website, as the source links it.
Wikipedia
wikipediaUrl
Optional
English Wikipedia address the source links for the laureate.
Wikidata id
wikidataId
Optional
Wikidata identifier the source links, for joining these rows to other datasets.
Found by country filter
requestedBirthCountry
Optional
Which of your birthCountries values this row matched, by the historical or by the modern country name. Null when the run asked for no country.
Laureates
laureateCount
Optional
How many laureates shared this prize: 1 to 3, and 0 for a year when it was not awarded. Prizes mode only.
Who won
laureateNames
Optional
Names of the laureates in the committee's own share order. Prizes mode only.
"Mary Brunkow"Laureate ids
laureateIds
Optional
The source's laureate identifiers in the same order, for joining to a laureates-mode run. Prizes mode only.
"1060"Shares
laureatePortions
Optional
The share each laureate received, in the same order. Prizes mode only.
"1/3"Shared motivation
topMotivation
Optional
Citation that belongs to the prize as a whole rather than to one laureate. The source fills it on few prizes, and uses it to explain the years when no prize was awarded. Prizes mode only.
Citations
motivations
Optional
The citation of each laureate, in the same order as laureateNames. Prizes mode only.
"for the discovery of peripheral immune tolerance"Source
source
Optional
Always api.nobelprize.org - the official API these rows come from.