SQL Exercises: Display the Nobel prizes for 1970
12. Nobel Winner of 1970
From the following table, write a SQL query to find the Nobel Prize winner(s) for the year 1970. Return year, subject and winner.
Sample table : nobel_win
YEAR SUBJECT WINNER COUNTRY CATEGORY ---- ------------------------- --------------------------------------------- ------------------------- ------------ 1970 Physics Hannes Alfven Sweden Scientist 1970 Physics Louis Neel France Scientist 1970 Chemistry Luis Federico Leloir France Scientist 1970 Physiology Ulf von Euler Sweden Scientist 1970 Physiology Bernard Katz Germany Scientist 1970 Literature Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russia Linguist 1970 Economics Paul Samuelson USA Economist 1970 Physiology Julius Axelrod USA Scientist ..... 1994 Literature Kenzaburo Oe Japan Linguist
Sample Solution :
-- This query selects specific columns 'year', 'subject', and 'winner' from the 'nobel_win' table.
SELECT year, subject, winner
-- Specifies the table from which to retrieve the data (in this case, 'nobel_win').
FROM nobel_win
-- Filters the rows to only include those where the 'year' column has the value 1970.
WHERE year = 1970;
Output of the Query:
year subject winner 1970 Physics Hannes Alfven 1970 Physics Louis Neel 1970 Chemistry Luis Federico Leloir 1970 Physiology Julius Axelrod 1970 Physiology Ulf von Euler 1970 Physiology Bernard Katz 1970 Literature Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1970 Economics Paul Samuelson
Code Explanation:
The above query in SQL that selects the "year", "subject" and "winner" columns from the 'nobel_win' table where the value of "year" column is 1970. The WHERE clause is used to filter the rows and only return the rows that match the condition specified in the WHERE clause.
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For more Practice: Solve these Related Problems:
- Write a SQL query to find Nobel Prize winners for the year 1971.
- Write a SQL query to retrieve Nobel Prize winners for the year 1980.
- Write a SQL query to list Nobel Prize winners for the year 1990.
- Write a SQL query to identify Nobel Prize winners for the year 2000.
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