Nobel Table

yr
subject
winner

1960

Chemistry

Willard F. Libby

1960

Literature

Saint-John Perse

1960

Medicine

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

1960

Medicine

Peter Medawar

1960

Physics

Donald A. Glaser

1960

Peace

Albert Lutuli

...

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  1. Change the query shown so that it displays Nobel prizes for 1950.

SELECT * FROM nobel WHERE yr = 1950
  1. Show who won the 1962 prize for literature.

SELECT winner FROM nobel WHERE yr = 1962 AND subject = 'Literature'
  1. Show the year and subject that won 'Albert Einstein' his prize.

SELECT yr FROM nobel WHERE winner = 'Albert Einstein'
  1. Give the name of the 'peace' winners since the year 2000, including 2000.

SELECT winner 
FROM nobel 
WHERE LOWER(subject) = 'peace' AND yr >= 2000
  1. Show all details (yr, subject, winner) of the literature prize winners for 1980 to 1989 inclusive.

  1. Show all details of the presidential winners:

  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • Thomas Woodrow Wilson

  • Jimmy Carter

  • Barack Obama

  1. Show the winners with first name John

  1. Show the year, subject, and name of physics winners for 1980 together with the chemistry winners for 1984.

  1. Show the year, subject, and name of winners for 1980 excluding chemistry and medicine

  1. Show year, subject, and name of people who won a 'Medicine' prize in an early year (before 1910, not including 1910) together with winners of a 'Literature' prize in a later year (after 2004, including 2004)

  1. Find all details of the prize won by PETER GRÜNBERG The u in his name has an umlaut. You may find this link useful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9C#Keyboarding

  1. Find all details of the prize won by EUGENE O'NEILL

  1. Knights in order. List the winners, year and subject where the winner starts with Sir. Show the the most recent first, then by name order.

  1. The expression subject IN ('chemistry','physics') can be used as a value - it will be 0 or 1. Show the 1984 winners and subject ordered by and winner name; but list chemistry and physics last.

Nobel Table - PostgreSQL

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