Nobel Prize API
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For Agents
Read structured Nobel Prize laureate and prize records from 1901 to the present across four endpoints — laureates list and detail, prizes list and detail by category and year.
Use for: I need to list all Nobel laureates in physics from a given year, Find the Nobel Prize awarded in literature in a specific year, Get the full record for a specific laureate by id, Search for Nobel laureates by their affiliation country
Not supported: Does not handle nominations, voting records, or non-Nobel awards — use for public Nobel laureate and prize lookups only.
The Nobel Prize API v2.1 returns structured JSON for laureates and prizes from 1901 to the present, covering all six categories — physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economic sciences. Agents can list and filter laureates, fetch a single laureate by id, list prizes with filters by year and category, and retrieve a specific prize by category and year. The API is fully public and unauthenticated, supports pagination, and is hosted at api.nobelprize.org/2.1.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Nobel Prize API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Nobel Prize API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Nobel Prize API.
List Nobel laureates with filters for year, category, and birth or death attributes via /laureates
Fetch a single laureate's full record by id from /laureate/{laureateID}
List Nobel prizes filtered by year range and category via /nobelPrizes
Retrieve a specific prize record by category and year through /nobelPrize/{category}/{year}
Paginate large laureate result sets with offset and limit parameters
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Nobel Prize API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Educational Reference Lookup
Learning platforms and reference apps need authoritative Nobel laureate records for course modules and biographical content. The /laureates and /laureate/{laureateID} endpoints expose every laureate from 1901 onwards with structured fields for birth, death, affiliations, and prize motivation. This replaces scraping the Nobel Prize website and gives a stable JSON contract for content pipelines.
Call /laureates with category=physics and year=1921 to retrieve Albert Einstein's record, then GET /laureate/{laureateID} for the full citation
Annual Recap Content
Newsrooms and editorial workflows publish annual Nobel Prize recaps each October. The /nobelPrizes endpoint filtered by year returns every prize awarded that year across all six categories, with citation, motivation, and laureate links. /nobelPrize/{category}/{year} is the direct path when only one category is needed, removing client-side filtering.
Call /nobelPrizes?nobelPrizeYear=2024 to list all six prizes awarded in 2024 with their laureates and motivations
Research Affiliation Analysis
Analysts studying scientific institution productivity can query laureates by their affiliations and birth countries to track how prize-winning research clusters across universities and decades. The /laureates endpoint exposes structured affiliation data per prize, so a notebook can group, count, and rank institutions without hand-coding parsers over the Nobel website HTML.
Page through /laureates filtered by category=chemistry and aggregate the affiliations array per laureate into an institution count
AI Agent Trivia and QA
An assistant answering questions like 'who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989?' can use Jentic to route the query to /nobelPrize/{category}/{year} without writing custom URL builders. The API is anonymous so Jentic handles only retry and response shaping, while the agent gets back a structured prize record with laureates and citation.
Use Jentic to call /nobelPrize/peace/1989 and return the laureate name and prize motivation to the calling agent
Key Endpoints
4 endpoints — the nobel prize api v2.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/laureates
List Nobel laureates with optional year and category filters
GET
/laureate/{laureateID}
Fetch a single laureate's full record by id
GET
/nobelPrizes
List Nobel Prizes filtered by year range and category
GET
/nobelPrize/{category}/{year}
Retrieve a specific Nobel Prize by category and year
GET
/laureates
List Nobel laureates with optional year and category filters
GET
/laureate/{laureateID}
Fetch a single laureate's full record by id
GET
/nobelPrizes
List Nobel Prizes filtered by year range and category
GET
/nobelPrize/{category}/{year}
Retrieve a specific Nobel Prize by category and year
Why Jentic?
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
The Nobel Prize API is anonymous, so no credential is provisioned. Jentic still proxies the call so audit logs, retries, and response shaping are consistent with authenticated APIs in the same agent toolchain.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search by intent (e.g. 'find a nobel prize by category and year') and Jentic returns the matching /nobelPrize/{category}/{year} or /nobelPrizes operation with its parameter schema.
Time to first call
Direct integration: a few hours to handle pagination and filter combinations. Through Jentic: under 15 minutes — search, load, execute.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Nobel Prize API through Jentic.
What authentication does the Nobel Prize API use?
The Nobel Prize API v2.1 is fully public and requires no authentication. Through Jentic the call still passes through the credential broker so retries and response normalization are consistent with authenticated APIs in the same toolchain.
Can I get all Nobel Prizes for a specific year with the Nobel Prize API?
Yes. Call /nobelPrizes?nobelPrizeYear=YYYY to list every prize awarded that year, or /nobelPrize/{category}/{year} for a single category-year pair. Both return citation, motivation, and laureate references.
What are the rate limits for the Nobel Prize API?
The OpenAPI spec does not declare specific rate limits. The API is fronted by a public CDN and tolerates moderate use; let Jentic handle 429 backoff if upstream throttling occurs.
How do I look up a specific Nobel laureate through Jentic?
Run pip install jentic, search Jentic for 'fetch a nobel laureate by id', load the /laureate/{laureateID} operation, supply the laureate id, and execute. The full structured record returns directly to the agent.
Is the Nobel Prize API free to use?
Yes. The Nobel Prize API is provided free by the Nobel Prize organization for non-commercial and editorial use. Attribution to nobelprize.org is requested when redistributing the data.
Can I filter Nobel laureates by category with the Nobel Prize API?
Yes. Pass nobelPrizeCategory=physics (or chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, economics) to /laureates along with optional year filters. Combine with offset and limit for pagination.
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