SQL Exercises: Display the Nobel prizes for 1970

SQL Basic Select Statement: Exercise-12 with Solution.

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

Sample Solution :

SELECT year,subject,winner 
FROM nobel_win 
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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