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The Nobel Prize is an international award established by the will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel and has been awarded since 1901. There are six categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. The prizes are awarded to individuals or organizations that have made the greatest contributions to humanity. Laureates receive a gold medal, a diploma, and prize money. As of 2025, over 1,000 individuals and organizations have received the award.

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| code | slug | name | description | awardingInstitution | establishedYear | recentLaureates | totalAwards | totalLaureates | uniqueIndividuals | individualLaureates | organizationLaureates |
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| PHYSICS | nobel-prize-physics | Nobel Prize in Physics | Awarded to individuals who have made the most important discovery or invention in the field of physics. | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | 1901 | [{"year":2025,"laureates":["John Clarke","Michel H. Devoret","John M. Martinis"],"citation":"for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"},{"year":2024,"laureates":["John J. Hopfield","Geoffrey Hinton"],"citation":"for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"},{"year":2023,"laureates":["Pierre Agostini","Ferenc Krausz","Anne L'Huillier"],"citation":"for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"},{"year":2022,"laureates":["Alain Aspect","John Clauser","Anton Zeilinger"],"citation":"for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science"},{"year":2021,"laureates":["Syukuro Manabe","Klaus Hasselmann","Giorgio Parisi"],"citation":"for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems"}] | 119 | 230 | 229 |  |  |
| CHEMISTRY | nobel-prize-chemistry | Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Awarded to individuals who have made the most important chemical discovery or improvement. | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | 1901 | [{"year":2025,"laureates":["Susumu Kitagawa","Richard Robson","Omar M. Yaghi"],"citation":"for the development of metal-organic frameworks"},{"year":2024,"laureates":["David Baker","Demis Hassabis","John Jumper"],"citation":"for computational protein design and protein structure prediction"},{"year":2023,"laureates":["Moungi Bawendi","Louis Brus","Aleksey Yekimov"],"citation":"for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"},{"year":2022,"laureates":["Carolyn Bertozzi","Morten Meldal","K. Barry Sharpless"],"citation":"for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry"},{"year":2021,"laureates":["Benjamin List","David W.C. MacMillan"],"citation":"for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis"}] | 117 | 200 | 198 |  |  |
| MEDICINE | nobel-prize-medicine | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Awarded to individuals who have made the most important discovery in the field of physiology or medicine. | Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet | 1901 | [{"year":2025,"laureates":["Mary E. Brunkow","Fred Ramsdell","Shimon Sakaguchi"],"citation":"for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"},{"year":2024,"laureates":["Victor Ambros","Gary Ruvkun"],"citation":"for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation"},{"year":2023,"laureates":["Katalin Karikó","Drew Weissman"],"citation":"for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19"},{"year":2022,"laureates":["Svante Pääbo"],"citation":"for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution"},{"year":2021,"laureates":["David Julius","Ardem Patapoutian"],"citation":"for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch"}] | 116 | 232 | 229 |  |  |
| LITERATURE | nobel-prize-literature | Nobel Prize in Literature | Awarded to authors who have produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction in the field of literature. | Swedish Academy | 1901 | [{"year":2025,"laureates":["László Krasznahorkai"],"citation":"for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art"},{"year":2024,"laureates":["Han Kang"],"citation":"for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life"},{"year":2023,"laureates":["Jon Fosse"],"citation":"for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable"},{"year":2022,"laureates":["Annie Ernaux"],"citation":"for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory"},{"year":2021,"laureates":["Abdulrazak Gurnah"],"citation":"for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee"}] | 118 | 122 | 122 |  |  |
| PEACE | nobel-prize-peace | Nobel Peace Prize | Awarded to individuals or organizations that have contributed most to the promotion of international fraternity and peace. | Norwegian Nobel Committee | 1901 | [{"year":2025,"laureates":["Maria Corina Machado"],"citation":"for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"},{"year":2024,"laureates":["Nihon Hidankyo"],"citation":"for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again"},{"year":2023,"laureates":["Narges Mohammadi"],"citation":"for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all"},{"year":2022,"laureates":["Ales Bialiatski","Memorial","Center for Civil Liberties"],"citation":"for representing civil society and promoting the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens"},{"year":2021,"laureates":["Maria Ressa","Dmitry Muratov"],"citation":"for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace"}] | 106 | 143 |  | 112 | 31 |
| ECONOMICS | nobel-prize-economic-sciences | Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences | Awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the field of economic sciences. | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | 1969 | [{"year":2025,"laureates":["Joel Mokyr","Philippe Aghion","Peter Howitt"],"citation":"for having explained innovation-driven economic growth and the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction"},{"year":2024,"laureates":["Daron Acemoglu","Simon Johnson","James A. Robinson"],"citation":"for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity"},{"year":2023,"laureates":["Claudia Goldin"],"citation":"for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes"},{"year":2022,"laureates":["Ben Bernanke","Douglas Diamond","Philip Dybvig"],"citation":"for research on banks and financial crises"},{"year":2021,"laureates":["David Card","Joshua D. Angrist","Guido W. Imbens"],"citation":"for their empirical contributions to labour economics and methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships"}] | 57 | 99 | 99 |  |  |