nobel prize

     

The Nobel Prize (Sweish: Nobelpriset) was established in Alfred Nobel's will in 1895, and it was first awarded in Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Physics in 1901. An associated prize, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was instituted by Sweden's central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969. The Nobel Prizes in the specific disciplines (Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature) and the Prize in Economics, which is commonly "identified with" them, are widely regarded as the most prestigious award one can receive in those fields. The Nobel Peace Prize conveys social prestige, and that award also is often politically controversial. With the exception of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economics are presented in Stockholm, Sweden, at the annual Prize Award Ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. The recipients' lectures are presented in the days prior to the award ceremony. The Nobel Peace Prize and its recipients' lectures are presented at the annual Prize Award Ceremony in Oslo, Norway, also on December 10. "Since the Nobel Prize is regarded by far as the most prestigious prize in the world, the Award Ceremonies as well as the Banquets in Stockholm and Oslo on 10 December have been transformed from local Swedish and Norwegian arrangements into major international events that receive worldwide coverage by the print media, radio and television."

Trivia about nobel prize

  • For pioneering work in finance theory, Merton Miller won this prize in Economic Science for 1990
  • In 2001 Sweden & the U.S. honored this award's 100th anniversary with a set of postage stamps
  • As Jean-Paul Sartre rejected this award in 1964, the big cash prize was returned to its fund
  • This prize did not have an economics category until '69
  • In 1988 the United Nations' peacekeeping forces were awarded this important prize
  • Bertha von Suttner, the 2nd woman to win one of these, was the 1st woman to win in the Peace category
  • As a winner of this, you may be awakened in Stockholm's Grand Hotel by Swedes in St. Lucia's Day costumes
  • For work on the biochemistry of cell growth, Rita Levi-Montalcini won this medicine prize in 1986
  • Think hard & pick up this honor, worth 114,935 kronor in 1923 & 10 million in 2005
  • Known for his satire, Wole Soyinka became the first Black African winner of this prize for literature in 1986
  • For that term paper on the DNA of mice:One of these in physiology or medicine, just like Sir Martin Evans