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Alfred Nobel:


Alfred Nobel


The Nobel Prizes were founded by Swedish industrialist and scientist Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite in 1866. Alfred Nobel was many talents rolled in one as he worked as chemist, engineer and industrialist. Also, he could speak 5 languages fluently at the age of 17. He left 31 million Swedish kroner (today about 265 million dollar) to fund the Nobel Prizes.


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His Motive:

In his will dated November 27, 1895, Nobel dedicated a mammoth share of his fortune to honour work by awarding prizes in five areas - Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, and Peace.



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The Medal:





The prize was made of the mixture of gold and silver with 24 carat or 4.8 g gold coating. The recepient of the prize, or laurate, receives a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money, which is decided by the Nobel Foundation. As of December 2015, the monetary value of the Nobel Prize was worth more than US$1.2million. The medal itself is worth much more than the prize money awarded to the laurates. The Nobel Peace Prize Medal was designed by Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland and shows Alfred Nobel in a pose slightly different from that of the other medals.



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Sixth Award:

In 1968, a sixth award for Economics was added by the Bank of Sweden in the memory of Alfred Nobel. The Prizes are announced in advance but distributed every year on December 10 to mark the death anniversary of Alfred Nobel.


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Rejecting The Award:

Till now, two have voluntarily declined to accept Nobel - Jean Paul Sartre for Literature in 1964 and Le Duc Tho for Peace in 1937. Le Duc Tho rejected the award given to him for Paris Peace Accords saying here was no actual peace in Vietnam.

In 1958, Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel in Literature. He first accepted the Nobel Prize but later declined the prize fearing the Soviet authorities.



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Youngest Awardee:

The youngest age to achieve the Nobel Prize was 17 years old by Malala Yousufzai, a Pakistani child education activist. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school.



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Oldest Peace Prize Laureate:

The oldest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to date is Joseph Rotblat, who was 87 years old when he was awarded the Prize in 1995.



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Multiple Nobel Peace Prize Laureates:

The work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been honoured the most - three times - by a Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, the founder of the ICRC, Henry Dunant, was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.



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Nobel Prize Family:

The Curies (Marie and Pierre Curie) comprised a very successful 'Nobel Prize family'. Marie Curie herself was awarded two Nobel Prizes - In 1903, she along with Pierre Curie was awarded half the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1911 she was awarded the Prize in Chemistry.



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Years No prizes Were Awarded:

It was not awarded on 19 occasions: in 1914-1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939-1943, 1948, 1955-1956, 1966-1967 and 1972.

Why were the Peace Prizes not awarded in those years? In the statutes of the Nobel Foundation it says: "If none of the works under consideration is found to be of the importance indicated in the first paragraph, the prize money shall be reserved until the following year. If, even then, the prize cannot be awarded, the amount shall be added to the Foundation's restricted funds." During World War I and II, fewer Nobel Prizes were awarded.



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Number Of Prizes Awarded:

128 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded since 1901. So far, 567 Nobel Prizes have been awarded between 1901 and 2014 to - to 103 individuals and 25 organizations.



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The Inscription On The Prize:

The inscription on the Nobel Peace medal reads- "Pro pace et fraternitate gentium," which means - "For the peace and brotherhood of men." The main inscription on one side of the medal for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Literature Nobel Prizes reads: "Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes," which in loose translation means - "And they who bettered life on earth by new found mastery."
The verbatim translation is - "inventions enhance life which is beautified through art."



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Image On The Prize:

The Nobel medal features the image of Alfred Nobel on the face. The image on the reverse varies according to the institution awarding the prize.



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Committee Countries Conducting The Awards:

Alfred Nobel signed his third and last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. In his will, Alfred Nobel didn't explain as to why the Nobel Peace Prize was to be awarded by a Norwegian committee while the other four prizes were to be handled by Swedish committees. The Nobel Prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Economics are awarded at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, while the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded at a different ceremony in Oslo, Norway.



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Nominated but not Awarded:

The three most common searches on individuals in the Peace Prize nomination database are Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi and Joseph Stalin.

Joseph Stalin, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 and 1948 for his efforts to end World War II.

Mahatma Gandhi, one of the strongest symbols of non-violence in the 20th century, was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and, finally, shortly before he was assassinated in January 1948. Although Gandhi was not awarded the Prize (a posthumous award is not allowed by the statutes), the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to make no award that year on the grounds that "there was no suitable living candidate".



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The Nobel Diplomas:

Each Diploma is a unique work of art, created by foremost Swedish and Norwegian artists and calligraphers. The prize-awarding bodies decide the design of the diplomas. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for the Physics and Chemistry diplomas, and since 1969 also for the Economics diploma. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet is responsible for the Physiology or Medicine diploma, the Swedish Academy for the Literature diploma and the Norwegian Nobel Committee for the diploma presented to the winners of the Peace Prize.


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