Nomination archive

Notes from the Norwegian Nobel Committee Archives
From the archives. Courtesy of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Nominations for the Nobel Prizes are handled by the Nobel Prize awarding institutions. Here, all nominations are collected in one database. Explore and search the nomination database!

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The nomination database

The database is not complete. Names of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be revealed until 50 years later. Due to internal work processes there is also at times a delay until a new year of data is available. Note that for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, only data until 1953 is currently available. The table below summarizes the currect status. See the manual for more details.

Number of nominations in physics from 1901 to 1970:3243
Number of nominations in chemistry from 1901 to 1970:3486
Number of nominations in physiology or medicine from 1901 to 1953:5110
Number of nominations in literature from 1901 to 1973:4140
Number of nominations in peace from 1901 to 1971:4734
Total:20713

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