Every person and organisation awarded a Nobel Prize, from the first prizes in 1901 to 2026, on a world map at the place they were born (organisations: where they were founded). Switch to where they worked when they won, and filter by field, year or country to see who came from your country or town.
Each laureate is placed where they were born (organisations: where they were founded; where that is unknown, at their headquarters, as the popup says). Countries are counted by today's borders: a town that was in the German Empire and is now in Poland counts as Poland. This is birthplace, not nationality, so Kazuo Ishiguro (British, born in Nagasaki) counts as Japan.
"Affiliation when awarded" is the university or institute the Nobel Prize data lists for each prize. Laureates with two affiliations count for each; laureates with none (most writers and peace laureates) do not appear. Institution names are as the Nobel Prize data gives them.
Where the Nobel Prize data has no coordinates for a town, the birthplace coordinates from Wikidata are used. "Nobel data says" in a popup is the Nobel Prize data's own wording.
"In a nutshell" and "In daily life" are this site's own explanations, each checked against the source linked under it. For now they cover prizes to people born in Japan or Japanese organisations and the latest year's prizes; more fields will follow. The italic text below them is the Nobel Foundation's official prize motivation, unchanged. The Economic Sciences prize is officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, awarded since 1969 alongside the five prizes of Nobel's will.
A prize shared by several laureates counts once for each of them. People and organisations awarded twice (Marie Curie, the International Committee of the Red Cross and others) count once per prize. Age at award is counted from the date of birth to the award date in the Nobel Prize data; where only the birth year is known, it is the difference in years and may be off by one. Parents, children, couples and siblings come from Wikidata and are shown only when both are laureates.
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