About this dataset

The Nobel Prize is the world's most prestigious award, given annually to those who have made significant contributions to humanity in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economics.

This dataset contains information on all Nobel Prize Laureates from the award's inception in 1901 through the current day. Laureates are announced at the beginning of October and a ceremony is held on December 10 each year. The Nobel Prize was established in 1895 by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel and was first awarded in 1901. It recognizes people in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics.

How to use the dataset

To use this dataset, simply download it and unzip it into a directory of your choice. Then, you can access the data by running the following command:

Research Ideas

• Which country has the most Nobel prize winners per capita?
• Are there trends that change over time?
• At what age do people get the Nobel prize?

Acknowledgements

This dataset was gathered from the Nobel Prize API, SPARQL Endpoint. The data is under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

If you use this dataset, please note Selene Arrazolo as the data publisher

Columns

File: nobel_prize_by_winner.csv | Column name | Description | |:----------------------|:--------------------------------------------------------------------| | firstname | The first name of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | firstname | The first name of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | surname | The surname of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | surname | The surname of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | born | The date of birth of the Nobel laureate. (Date) | | born | The date of birth of the Nobel laureate. (Date) | | died | The date of death of the Nobel laureate. (Date) | | died | The date of death of the Nobel laureate. (Date) | | bornCountry | The country of birth of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | bornCountry | The country of birth of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | bornCountryCode | The country code of the Nobel laureate's country of birth. (String) | | bornCountryCode | The country code of the Nobel laureate's country of birth. (String) | | bornCity | The city of birth of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | bornCity | The city of birth of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | diedCountry | The country of death of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | diedCountry | The country of death of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | diedCountryCode | The country code of the Nobel laureate's country of death. (String) | | diedCountryCode | The country code of the Nobel laureate's country of death. (String) | | diedCity | The city of death of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | diedCity | The city of death of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | gender | The gender of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | gender | The gender of the Nobel laureate. (String) | | year | The year the Nobel Prize was awarded. (Integer) | | year | The year the Nobel Prize was awarded. (Integer) | | category | The category of the Nobel Prize. (String) | | category | The category of the Nobel Prize. (String) | | overallMotivation | The overall motivation for the Nobel Prize. (String) | | overallMotivation | The overall motivation for the Nobel Prize. (String) | | share | The number of people sharing the Nobel Prize. (Integer) | | share | The number of people sharing the Nobel Prize. (Integer) |

File: nobel_prizes_by_date.csv | Column name | Description | |:----------------------|:--------------------------------------------------------| | year | The year the Nobel Prize was awarded. (Integer) | | year | The year the Nobel Prize was awarded. (Integer) | | category | The category of the Nobel Prize. (String) | | category ...

Context

• The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.
• The will of the Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel established the five Nobel prizes in 1895.
• The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901.
• The prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards available in their respective fields

Content

There are two JSON files 1. json_award.json - Contains data Nobel prize data in the format Year&Category - Winner(s) 2. json_laureates.json - Contains data Nobel prize laureates data in the format Winner - Year(s)&Category

• The CSV files are available both in raw and clean form
• The Nobel Prize laureate can be a person or an organization
• csv_clean_laureates_persons.csv - contains people who won Nobel prize with their birth and death information
• csv_clean_laureates_organization.csv - contains organizations that won Nobel prize with it's founded date and place information

Acknowledgements / Data Source

https://www.nobelprize.org/about/developer-zone-external-resources-and-examples/

Collection methodology

https://github.com/imdevskp/nobel-data-scraping-munging-cleaning

This dataset captures over a century of Nobel Prize history, including award year, category, date awarded, prize amount (both original and adjusted), and laureate details. It enables analysis of trends across fields like Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Peace, Literature, and Economics.

With structured columns for award data and recipient insights, this dataset is perfect for exploring patterns in recognition, comparing prize amounts over time, and understanding how different disciplines have evolved in global importance. A great resource for building visualizations, conducting historical analysis, or experimenting with career or achievement prediction models.

Content

The Nobel Prize is perhaps the world's most well known scientific award. Except for the honor, prestige and substantial prize money the recipient also gets a gold medal showing Alfred Nobel (1833 - 1896) who established the prize. Every year it's given to scientists and scholars in the categories chemistry, literature, physics, physiology or medicine, economics, and peace. The first Nobel Prize was handed out in 1901, and at that time the Prize was very Eurocentric and male-focused, but nowadays it's not biased in any way whatsoever. Surely. Right?

Well, we're going to find out! The Nobel Foundation has made a dataset available of all prize winners from the start of the prize, in 1901, to 2016. Let's load it in and take a look

Reference:

This is a project of "Data Scientist with Python Track" of DataCamp

Context

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel established the five Nobel prizes in 1895. The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901. The prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards available in their respective fields.

Between 1901 and 2020, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded to 949 people . The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, and based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and entrepreneur. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Each Prize consists of a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award.

A person or organization awarded the Nobel Prize is called Nobel Laureate. The word "laureate" refers to being signified by the laurel wreath. In ancient Greece, laurel wreaths were awarded to victors as a sign of honor.

Content

This dataset includes a record for every individual that was awarded the Nobel Prize since 1901.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is available on Nobel prize api.

Inspiration

Which country has won the most prizes in each category?

Context

The Nobel Prize is awarded annually in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. The origin of the prizes are based on Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, and are awarded to ”those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.”

Content

The data is is an updated and edited version of this dataset.

Questions

USA, UK and Germany overwhelmingly lead the table in terms of number of awardees. Do the attractive conditions that existed in these countries in the 20th century still exist? What will be the preferred destination of scientists of the future decades?