The long view
History & Records
A prize born from dynamite and a mistaken obituary. More than a century later, the numbers and stories are stranger and more human than most people expect.
Records & numbers
Figures cover the Nobel Prizes and the prize in Economic Sciences from 1901 to 2026.
Timeline
Winners of more than one Nobel
Only a handful of people and one organisation have repeated the feat.
Declined — or forced to decline
Laureates under arrest at the award
Every one of them a Peace Prize laureate.