Nobel Prizes API

GET

Verify Nobel laureates, prize categories, and award years.

Nobel Prizes searches laureate records by first name, last name, and award category. Each result includes the winner's full name, award year, and category, while paid plans add year filtering, motivations, and biographical details.

Try it — live request, no key required

Request

GETapi.apiverve.com/v1/nobelprizes

Verification

Format

No key required to try it. Get a key to use it in your app.

Example

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "count": 1,
    "filteredOn": [
      "firstName",
      "lastName",
      "category",
      "year"
    ],
    "nobelPrizes": [
      {
        "firstName": "Albert",
        "lastName": "Einstein",
        "born": "1879-03-14",
        "died": "1955-04-18",
        "countryborn": "Germany",
        "countrybornCode": "DE",
        "born city": "Ulm",
        "diedCountry": "USA",
        "diedCountryCode": "US",
        "diedCity": "Princeton NJ",
        "gender": "male",
        "year": "1921",
        "category": "Physics",
        "motivation": "for his services to Theoretical Physics and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect",
        "organization": "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik",
        "organizationCity": "Berlin",
        "organizationCountry": "Germany"
      }
    ]
  }
}

About the Nobel Prizes API

Queries match laureates using first name, last name, or one of six official categories: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. The response delivers matching laureate names, prize years, and matching result counts. Paid plans add filtering by award year as well as award motivations, institutional affiliations, gender, and birth or death dates.

What people use it for

Academic Trivia Games: Trivia apps query specific prize categories to generate questions and verify player answers against historical winners and award years.
Science Journalism Portals: When breaking news covers major scientific breakthroughs, newsrooms search laureate records by name to confirm previous award years and official citations.
University Faculty Profiles: To display faculty honors accurately, university web editors cross-reference researcher names against prize records to list confirmed Nobel awards.
Reference Library Catalogs: Catalogers query the database by category to build curated reading lists and link literature prize winners to archive collections.

Ways to call it

One endpoint, many ways in — REST with JSON, XML, YAML and CSV, plus GraphQL and an MCP interface for AI agents.

JSON: Default REST response
XML: Markup format
YAML: Human-readable
CSV: Tabular export
GraphQL: Query language
MCP: For AI agents

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Questions.

Common questions about the Nobel Prizes API.

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Can I filter Nobel winners by award category or name?

Yes. You can query records using first name, last name, or prize category on every plan; paid plans can also query by year. Supported categories include Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics.

Do I get the award motivation and biographical details on the Free plan?

No. The Free plan returns basic details like names, year, and category. Biographical data including birth and death dates, birthplaces, gender, award motivations, affiliated organizations, and filtering by year require a paid plan.

Which plan fits 25,000 laureate queries a month?

The Starter plan handles that volume with room to spare. At 2 credits per query, 25,000 lookups require 50,000 credits, which uses one quarter of the 200,000 monthly credits included on Starter. That works out to about $0.30 per 1,000 calls. The Free plan includes 100 queries each month.

How does the API represent living laureates?

On paid plans, the died field returns null for laureates who are still alive. Death-related location fields, including the country and city of death, will also be empty for living recipients on paid plans.

Can I display Nobel Prize data inside a commercial application?

Yes, as long as you are on any paid plan. You can store and present the laureate records within your own app, educational tool, or website, though you cannot resell or redistribute the raw dataset.

Request parameters — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Sent in the query string. Premium parameters are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them. Anything not listed here is dropped rather than passed through.

Optional

Parameter	Type	Example	Description
`firstname`Optional	string	`Albert`	The first name of the Nobel Prize winner to get information about
`lastname`Optional	string	`Einstein`	The last name of the Nobel Prize winner to get information about
`category`Optional	string	`Physics`	The category of the Nobel Prize to get information about `PhysicsChemistryMedicineLiteraturePeaceEconomics`
`year`OptionalPremium	integer	`1921`	The year of the Nobel Prize to get information about range 1901-2030

Example request

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curl "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/nobelprizes?firstname=Albert&lastname=Einstein&category=Physics&year=1921" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Authentication

Send your key in the x-api-key header. That is the only auth step — no token exchange, and no per-endpoint scope to configure.

Header	When	Value
`x-api-key`Required	Every request	Your API key. Header names are case-insensitive, so `X-API-Key` is the same header.
`Authorization`Alternate	Instead of the above	`Bearer <key>` — for clients that only expose bearer auth. Resolves to the same account and the same billing.

401 is the only auth verdict

A 401 means the key is missing, invalid or expired. A 403 means the key is valid but not permitted here — blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Running out of credits is a 429.

Response — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Every APIVerve endpoint returns the same three top-level keys, so one response handler covers your whole integration: status, error and data. Only data changes shape.

Sample response

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "count": 1,
    "filteredOn": [
      "firstName",
      "lastName",
      "category",
      "year"
    ],
    "nobelPrizes": [
      {
        "firstName": "Albert",
        "lastName": "Einstein",
        "born": "1879-03-14",
        "died": "1955-04-18",
        "countryborn": "Germany",
        "countrybornCode": "DE",
        "born city": "Ulm",
        "diedCountry": "USA",
        "diedCountryCode": "US",
        "diedCity": "Princeton NJ",
        "gender": "male",
        "year": "1921",
        "category": "Physics",
        "motivation": "for his services to Theoretical Physics and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect",
        "organization": "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik",
        "organizationCity": "Berlin",
        "organizationCountry": "Germany"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`count`	number	`1`	Total number of Nobel Prize winners matching the criteria
`filteredOn`	array	`[firstName, ...]`	List of filter fields applied to the query results
`nobelPrizes`	array[1]		Array of Nobel Prize winner records with complete biographical data
`firstName`	string	`"Albert"`	First name of the Nobel Prize winner
`lastName`	string	`"Einstein"`	Last name of the Nobel Prize winner
`born`Premium	string	`"1879-03-14"`	Birth date in YYYY-MM-DD format
`died`Premium	string	`"1955-04-18"`	Death date in YYYY-MM-DD format or null
`countryborn`Premium	string	`"Germany"`	Country name where the laureate was born
`countrybornCode`Premium	string	`"DE"`	ISO country code of birth country (two letters)
`born city`Premium	string	`"Ulm"`	City or town where laureate was born
`diedCountry`Premium	string	`"USA"`	Country name where the laureate died
`diedCountryCode`Premium	string	`"US"`	ISO country code of death country (two letters)
`diedCity`Premium	string	`"Princeton NJ"`	City or town where laureate died
`gender`Premium	string	`"male"`	Gender of the Nobel Prize winner
`year`	string	`"1921"`	Year the Nobel Prize was awarded
`category`	string	`"Physics"`	Nobel Prize category (Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, Economics)
`motivation`Premium	string	`"for his services to Theoretical Physics and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"`	Official Nobel Prize motivation citation explaining the award
`organization`Premium	string	`"Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik"`	Organization or institution affiliated with the laureate
`organizationCity`Premium	string	`"Berlin"`	City where the affiliated organization is located
`organizationCountry`Premium	string	`"Germany"`	Country where the affiliated organization is located

Response headers

Every response carries your balance, so your own code always knows where it stands without polling anything. All four are exposed to browsers through CORS.

Header	What it carries
`x-api-remaining-credits`	Credits left in the current cycle
`x-api-credits-used`	Credits spent in the current cycle
`x-api-max-credits`	The allowance for the cycle
`x-api-version`	Version of the endpoint that answered

Errors

Read the HTTP status first, then error for the specific reason. The body names the parameter that has to change.

Status	Meaning	What to do
`400`	Input was rejected	Read `error`; it names the parameter that has to change.
`401`	Key missing or invalid	Check the header name and the key value.
`403`	Key valid, but not permitted here	A key restriction or an IP allow-list — never a bad key.
`429`	Rate limited, or out of credits	Read `error` to tell them apart, then back off or top up.

What a call costs — 2 credits per call

Credits are shared across every APIVerve API — one balance, one key, one bill. Failed requests never count against it, so a rejected input costs nothing.

Plan	Per month	Credits	Nobel Prizes calls	Per 1,000 calls
Free	Free	200	100	Free
Starter	$29.99	200,000	100,000	$0.30
Pro	$99.99	1,000,000	500,000	$0.20
Mega	$299.99	4,000,000	2,000,000	$0.15

Calls are what the credits buy at this API's rate — spend them here, on any of the other APIs, or across both. Nothing is reserved per endpoint.

Compare all pricing tiers →

Call it from cURL — GET /v1/nobelprizes

No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/nobelprizes with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.

cURL

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curl "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/nobelprizes" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Resources

GitHubapiverve/nobelprizes-apiSource, issues and the examples this page is built from.ReferenceNobel Prizes API docsEvery parameter, every response field, and the errors.ParametersWhat this call acceptsRequired and optional inputs, with example values.

Also published for

@apiverve/nobelprizesnpm APIVerve.API.NobelPrizesNuGet

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

Call it from Node.js — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Install the Node.js SDK, then call the Nobel Prizes API with your key. The client wraps the same HTTPS request, so anything it returns is what the endpoint returns.

Install — npm

npm install @apiverve/nobelprizes

Node.js

const res = await fetch("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/nobelprizes", {
  headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
});
const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(data);

Resources

npm@apiverve/nobelprizesThe published Node.js client, versioned and signed.GitHubapiverve/nobelprizes-apiSource, issues and the examples this page is built from.ReferenceNobel Prizes API docsEvery parameter, every response field, and the errors.ParametersWhat this call acceptsRequired and optional inputs, with example values.

Also published for

APIVerve.API.NobelPrizesNuGet

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

Call it from Python — GET /v1/nobelprizes

No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/nobelprizes with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.

Python

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/nobelprizes",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
print(res.json()["data"])

Resources

Also published for

@apiverve/nobelprizesnpm APIVerve.API.NobelPrizesNuGet

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

Call it from C# / .NET — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Install the C# / .NET SDK, then call the Nobel Prizes API with your key. The client wraps the same HTTPS request, so anything it returns is what the endpoint returns.

Install — NuGet

dotnet add package APIVerve.API.NobelPrizes

C# / .NET

using var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY");

var json = await client.GetStringAsync("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/nobelprizes");
Console.WriteLine(json);

Resources

NuGetAPIVerve.API.NobelPrizesThe published C# / .NET client, versioned and signed.GitHubapiverve/nobelprizes-apiSource, issues and the examples this page is built from.ReferenceNobel Prizes API docsEvery parameter, every response field, and the errors.ParametersWhat this call acceptsRequired and optional inputs, with example values.

Also published for

@apiverve/nobelprizesnpm

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

Call it from Go — GET /v1/nobelprizes

No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/nobelprizes with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.

req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.apiverve.com/v1/nobelprizes", nil)
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))

Resources

Also published for

@apiverve/nobelprizesnpm APIVerve.API.NobelPrizesNuGet

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

Call it from PHP — GET /v1/nobelprizes

No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/nobelprizes with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.

PHP

$ch = curl_init("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/nobelprizes");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
echo $response;

Resources

Also published for

@apiverve/nobelprizesnpm APIVerve.API.NobelPrizesNuGet

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

Call it from Ruby — GET /v1/nobelprizes

No SDK to install — this is a plain HTTPS call to /v1/nobelprizes with your key in the x-api-key header. Swap in a real key and it runs as-is.

Ruby

require "net/http"

uri = URI("https://api.apiverve.com/v1/nobelprizes")
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = "YOUR_API_KEY"

res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |h| h.request(req) }
puts res.body

Resources

Also published for

@apiverve/nobelprizesnpm APIVerve.API.NobelPrizesNuGet

Only the languages APIVerve ships a client for are listed — the rest call the endpoint directly over HTTPS.

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Nobel Prizes API

Try it — live request, no key required

About the Nobel Prizes API

What people use it for

Ways to call it

Other ways to use Nobel Prizes

Questions.

Request parameters — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Optional

Authentication

Response — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Response fields

Response headers

Errors

What a call costs — 2 credits per call

Call it from cURL — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Resources

Also published for

Call it from Node.js — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Resources

Also published for

Call it from Python — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Resources

Also published for

Call it from C# / .NET — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Resources

Also published for

Call it from Go — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Resources

Also published for

Call it from PHP — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Resources

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Call it from Ruby — GET /v1/nobelprizes

Resources

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