Stockholm in History

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning malaria and its transmission by mosquitoes.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research explaining malaria transmission.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the inert gaseous elements and defining their place in the periodic system.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for gas-density research and the discovery of argon.

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for observation, imagination, ideas, and narrative talent.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering growth-stimulating vitamins.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for distinguished narration, especially The Forsyte Saga.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on chemical transmission of nerve impulses.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, for the discovery of penicillin

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for writings championing humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially the statistical interpretation of the wavefunction.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, for work on holography

Records the shuffle rhythm heard on Fool in the Rain.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies.

Runs the mile in 3 mins 46.31 secs

Receives the Crafoord Prize for contributions to astrophysics.

Hoyle received the Crafoord Prize for pioneering work on nuclear processes in stars and stellar evolution.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for perceptive narrative and scrutiny that reveal the presence of suppressed histories.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for plays that uncover the precipice beneath everyday speech and expose oppression.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing in vitro fertilisation.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for the theoretical discovery of the mechanism explaining the origin of mass of subatomic particles.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for novels of emotional force that uncover the abyss beneath an illusory sense of connection.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy for high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing phage display of peptides and antibodies.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on lithium-ion batteries.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on cellular oxygen sensing.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of hepatitis C virus.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for showing that black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing asymmetric organocatalysis.

Is honoured for writing about colonialism and the refugee experience between cultures and continents.

Shares the chemistry prize for predicting protein structures.

Shares the physics prize for foundational work enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.