Nobel Prize Laureates by Year and Category

nobelprize/search-laureates

Nobel Prize laureates for an award year and/or a prize category: name, gender, birth date and place, the prize or prizes won with the official motivation text, the laureate's share of the prize, the prize amount, and the university or institution at the time of the award. Names, places and motivations come in English plus Swedish or Norwegian where the publisher provides them. Returns up to 25 laureates per call, paged with offset. Nobel Prize data (CC0) passed through unmodified and served by Eden Engine; not an official Nobel Prize product.

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Data source

Nobel Prize Outreach

Data from the Nobel Prize API v2.1 (Nobel Prize Outreach, nobelprize.org), released under CC0; cited as the data source. Served by Eden Engine; not an official Nobel Prize Outreach product.

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// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })

// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "nobelprize/search-laureates" })

// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "nobelprize/search-laureates" })

// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "nobelprize/search-laureates", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "nobelprize/search-laureates", input: { /* ... */ } })

// 5. settle: the call is charged when it finishes, nothing to do

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Updated: Oct 20, 2026

Input and output schemas

Input schema

input_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "anyOf": [
    {
      "required": [
        "year"
      ]
    },
    {
      "required": [
        "category"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "properties": {
    "year": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^(19|20)[0-9]{2}$",
      "description": "Award year, four digits, for example 2020. Give year, category or both; at least one is required."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 25,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Laureates per page, 1 to 25. Defaults to 10."
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 0,
      "maximum": 10000,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "How many laureates to skip, for paging: use the previous offset plus limit. Defaults to 0."
    },
    "category": {
      "enum": [
        "phy",
        "che",
        "med",
        "lit",
        "pea",
        "eco"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Prize category code: phy physics, che chemistry, med physiology or medicine, lit literature, pea peace, eco economic sciences."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

output_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "results"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "id"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The publisher's laureate id."
          },
          "birth": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "Birth `date`, `year` and `place` (city, country, the present-day city and country with coordinates as strings, continent, a ready-made `locationString`).",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "links": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": true
            }
          },
          "gender": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "sameAs": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "orgName": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "Name of an organisation laureate (for example the World Food Programme, peace 2020), keyed by language. Present instead of `knownName` and `fullName`.",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "fullName": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "Full name, keyed by language. Absent on an organisation, which has `orgName` instead.",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "wikidata": {
            "type": "object",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "knownName": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "Name as commonly known, keyed by language (en always present). Absent on an organisation.",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "wikipedia": {
            "type": "object",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "nobelPrizes": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": true
            },
            "description": "The prize or prizes this laureate won: `awardYear`, `category`, `portion` (share as a fraction string such as 1/2), `dateAwarded`, `motivation` (keyed by language), `prizeAmount`, `prizeAmountAdjusted` and `affiliations`."
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": true
      },
      "description": "Laureate records in the publisher's own shape, in the order the publisher returns them. A page with fewer records than `limit` is the last page."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}