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Nobel Prize Laureates - TOML

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 = "PHYSICS"
slug = "nobel-prize-physics"
name = "Nobel Prize in Physics"
description = "Awarded to individuals who have made the most important discovery or invention in the field of physics."
awardingInstitution = "Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"
establishedYear = 1901
recentLaureates = "[{\"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\"}]"
totalAwards = 119
totalLaureates = 230
uniqueIndividuals = 229
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organizationLaureates = ""

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code = "CHEMISTRY"
slug = "nobel-prize-chemistry"
name = "Nobel Prize in Chemistry"
description = "Awarded to individuals who have made the most important chemical discovery or improvement."
awardingInstitution = "Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"
establishedYear = 1901
recentLaureates = "[{\"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\"}]"
totalAwards = 117
totalLaureates = 200
uniqueIndividuals = 198
individualLaureates = ""
organizationLaureates = ""

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code = "MEDICINE"
slug = "nobel-prize-medicine"
name = "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine"
description = "Awarded to individuals who have made the most important discovery in the field of physiology or medicine."
awardingInstitution = "Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet"
establishedYear = 1901
recentLaureates = "[{\"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\"}]"
totalAwards = 116
totalLaureates = 232
uniqueIndividuals = 229
individualLaureates = ""
organizationLaureates = ""

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code = "LITERATURE"
slug = "nobel-prize-literature"
name = "Nobel Prize in Literature"
description = "Awarded to authors who have produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction in the field of literature."
awardingInstitution = "Swedish Academy"
establishedYear = 1901
recentLaureates = "[{\"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\"}]"
totalAwards = 118
totalLaureates = 122
uniqueIndividuals = 122
individualLaureates = ""
organizationLaureates = ""

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code = "PEACE"
slug = "nobel-prize-peace"
name = "Nobel Peace Prize"
description = "Awarded to individuals or organizations that have contributed most to the promotion of international fraternity and peace."
awardingInstitution = "Norwegian Nobel Committee"
establishedYear = 1901
recentLaureates = "[{\"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\"}]"
totalAwards = 106
totalLaureates = 143
uniqueIndividuals = ""
individualLaureates = 112
organizationLaureates = 31

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code = "ECONOMICS"
slug = "nobel-prize-economic-sciences"
name = "Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences"
description = "Awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the field of economic sciences."
awardingInstitution = "Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"
establishedYear = 1969
recentLaureates = "[{\"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\"}]"
totalAwards = 57
totalLaureates = 99
uniqueIndividuals = 99
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organizationLaureates = ""