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Nobel Laureates

All 1,032 Nobel laureate-awards across the six prizes since 1901, one row per win (shared prizes give multiple rows per year; repeat winners like Marie Curie appear once per prize). Each laureate enriched from their own article: birth and death dates, day-precise age at the December 10 ceremony, age at death, spouse and children counts, fields, alma mater, and the number of honors their infobox lists. Organizations are flagged.
1,032 rows 1 file last pulled 2026-08-29
Nobel Laureates 1,032 rows × 17 columns
YearPrizeLaureateCountryCitationIs_OrganizationBirth_DateDeath_DateBirthplaceAge_at_AwardAge_at_DeathNum_SpousesNum_ChildrenFieldsAlma_MaterNum_Awards_ListedLaureate_URL

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What is the Nobel Laureates dataset?

All 1,032 Nobel laureate-awards across the six prizes since 1901, one row per win (shared prizes give multiple rows per year; repeat winners like Marie Curie appear once per prize). Each laureate enriched from their own article: birth and death dates, day-precise age at the December 10 ceremony, age at death, spouse and children counts, fields, alma mater, and the number of honors their infobox lists. Organizations are flagged.

How big is the Nobel Laureates dataset?

1,032 rows in one CSV file, with 17 columns in total: Year, Prize, Laureate, Country, Citation, Is_Organization, Birth_Date, Death_Date, Birthplace, Age_at_Award, Age_at_Death, Num_Spouses, Num_Children, Fields, Alma_Mater, Num_Awards_Listed, Laureate_URL.

Where does the data come from?

It is built by programmatically scraping en.wikipedia.org, last pulled on 2026-08-29. Datasets are versioned; older versions stay downloadable.

Is the dataset free to download?

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Can I see the code that built this dataset?

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Can the data contain errors?

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