Nobel Peace Prize Winner Data

This page shows my dataset about the biographic info of Nobel Peace Prize winners and two visualizations that help explain the backgrounds of those winners.

Data Table

Here is a table with 40 rows of the core data used for my charts:

award_year	known_name	sex	category	birth_date	birth_city	birth_country	death_date	country_winner_rank
1901	Jacobus H. van 't Hoff	male	Chemistry	1852-08-30	Rotterdam	the Netherlands	3/1/1911	1
1901	Henry Dunant	male	Peace	1828-05-08	Geneva	Switzerland	10/30/1910	1
1901	Frédéric Passy	male	Peace	1822-05-20	Paris	France	6/12/1912	2
1901	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen	male	Physics	1845-03-27	Remscheid	Germany	2/10/1923	1
1901	Emil von Behring	male	Physiology or Medicine	1854-03-15	Lawice	Poland	3/31/1917	1
1902	Emil Fischer	male	Chemistry	1852-10-09	Euskirchen	Germany	7/15/1919	2
1902	Theodor Mommsen	male	Literature	1817-11-30	Garding	Germany	11/1/1903	3
1902	Élie Ducommun	male	Peace	1833-02-19	Geneva	Switzerland	12/7/1906	2
1902	Albert Gobat	male	Peace	1843-05-21	Tramelan	Switzerland	3/16/1914	3
1902	Hendrik A. Lorentz	male	Physics	1853-07-18	Arnhem	the Netherlands	2/4/1928	2
1902	Pieter Zeeman	male	Physics	1865-05-25	Zonnemaire	the Netherlands	10/9/1943	3
1902	Ronald Ross	male	Physiology or Medicine	1857-05-13	Almora	India	9/16/1932	1
1903	Henri Becquerel	male	Physics	1852-12-15	Paris	France	8/25/1908	3
1903	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	male	Literature	1832-12-08	Kvikne	Norway	4/26/1910	1
1903	Randal Cremer	male	Peace	1828-03-18	Fareham	United Kingdom	7/22/1908	1
1903	Niels Ryberg Finsen	male	Physiology or Medicine	1860-12-15	Thorshavn	Faroe Islands (Denmark)	9/24/1904	1
1903	Pierre Curie	male	Physics	1859-05-15	Paris	France	4/19/1906	4
1903	Marie Curie	female	Physics	1867-11-07	Warsaw	Poland	7/4/1934	2
1903	Svante Arrhenius	male	Chemistry	1859-02-19	Vik	Sweden	10/2/1927	1
1904	Sir William Ramsay	male	Chemistry	1852-10-02	Glasgow	Scotland	7/23/1916	1
1904	Frédéric Mistral	male	Literature	1830-09-08	Maillane	France	3/25/1914	5
1904	José Echegaray	male	Literature	1832-04-19	Madrid	Spain	9/4/1916	1
1904	Lord Rayleigh	male	Physics	1842-11-12	Langford Grove, Maldon, Essex	United Kingdom	6/30/1919	2
1904	Ivan Pavlov	male	Physiology or Medicine	1849-09-14	Ryazan	Russia	2/27/1936	1
1905	Henryk Sienkiewicz	male	Literature	1846-05-05	Wola Okrzejska	Poland	11/15/1916	3
1905	Philipp Lenard	male	Physics	1862-06-07	Bratislava	Slovakia	5/20/1947	1
1905	Adolf von Baeyer	male	Chemistry	1835-10-31	Berlin	Germany	8/20/1917	4
1905	Robert Koch	male	Physiology or Medicine	1843-12-11	Clausthal-Zellerfeld	Germany	5/27/1910	5
1905	Bertha von Suttner	female	Peace	1843-06-09	Prague	Czech Republic	6/21/1914	1
1906	Henri Moissan	male	Chemistry	1852-09-28	Paris	France	2/20/1907	6
1906	Giosuè Carducci	male	Literature	1835-07-27	Val di Castello	Italy	2/16/1907	1
1906	Theodore Roosevelt	male	Peace	1858-10-27	New York, NY	USA	1/6/1919	1
1906	J.J. Thomson	male	Physics	1856-12-18	Cheetham Hill	United Kingdom	8/30/1940	3
1906	Camillo Golgi	male	Physiology or Medicine	1843-07-07	Corteno	Italy	1/21/1926	2
1906	Santiago Ramón y Cajal	male	Physiology or Medicine	1852-05-01	Petilla de Aragón	Spain	10/17/1934	2
1907	Eduard Buchner	male	Chemistry	1860-05-20	Munich	Germany	8/13/1917	6
1907	Rudyard Kipling	male	Literature	1865-12-30	Mumbai	India	1/18/1936	2
1907	Ernesto Teodoro Moneta	male	Peace	1833-09-20	Milan	Italy	2/10/1918	3
1907	Louis Renault	male	Peace	1843-05-21	Autun	France	2/8/1918	7

Visualization 1

This visualization highlights Peace Prize winners by birth country and gender. Through this analysis, we can see the distribution of gender (there are way more males than females), and the breakdown for each country. Note: this visulization was made from a wider data set of over 80 winners.

Visualization 2

This chart shows the countries of origin for NPP winners and highlights how they’re distributed globally. It allows us to see whether certain countries produce more winners and to compare the counts across regions. Even with a sample of just 40, we can already see that 15% of the winners are from France and another 15% are from Germany.