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Nobel Prize Laureates - YAML

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."
  establishedYear: 1901
  totalAwards: 119
  totalLaureates: 230
  uniqueIndividuals: 229
  awardingInstitution: "Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"
  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"
- 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."
  establishedYear: 1901
  totalAwards: 117
  totalLaureates: 200
  uniqueIndividuals: 198
  awardingInstitution: "Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"
  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"
- 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."
  establishedYear: 1901
  totalAwards: 116
  totalLaureates: 232
  uniqueIndividuals: 229
  awardingInstitution: "Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet"
  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"
- 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."
  establishedYear: 1901
  totalAwards: 118
  totalLaureates: 122
  uniqueIndividuals: 122
  awardingInstitution: "Swedish Academy"
  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"
- 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."
  establishedYear: 1901
  totalAwards: 106
  totalLaureates: 143
  individualLaureates: 112
  organizationLaureates: 31
  awardingInstitution: "Norwegian Nobel Committee"
  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"
- 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."
  establishedYear: 1969
  totalAwards: 57
  totalLaureates: 99
  uniqueIndividuals: 99
  awardingInstitution: "Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"
  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"