nobel: Data on Nobel Prize laureates
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nobel

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Data on Nobel Prize laureates

Description

This data comes from the freely accessible API of the Nobel Foundation. The data includes information on all Nobel Prize laureates since 1901, as well as on all laureates in the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences since 1968.

Usage

nobel

Format

A tibble with 961 observations and 15 variables:

first_name: character variable for laureate's first name
last_name: character variable for laureate's last name
year: interger variable for year in which the price was awarded
field: factor variable for field in which the price was awarded
share: integer variable for number of laureates who shared the price
gender: factor variable for laureate's gender
born: date variable for laureate's birth date
died: date variable for laureate's death date
born_country: character variable for laureate's country of birth at the time
born_city: character variable for laureate's city of birth at the time
died_country: character variable for laureate's country of death at the time
died_city: character variable for laureate's city of death at the time
motivation: character variable for reason of award
aff_inst: character variable for laureate's academic affiliation
aff_city: character variable for city of institution of laureate's academic affiliation