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The Nobel Prize, the most prestigious award in the world, is given to extraordinary achievers in the fields of academic, scientific or artistic advances.
It was started in 1901 by Alfred Nobel who in his will inked off his” remaining realisable means” to be awarded as the Nobel Prizes. The assest amounted to further than SEK 31 million (which would be roughly SEK,702 million moment) The inventor is known for contriving dynamite but had a aggregate of 355 patents to his name at the time of his death.
The Nobel Prize is awarded in six orders each time– Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Economics, and Peace Prize. Each comes with SEK (Swedish Krona) or around Rs 7 crore 22 lakh rupees.
Then are a many facts on the Nobel Prize
1. As of 2020, 603 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 962 laureates in the six orders. numerous of the Nobel Prizes are participated by a number of donors.
2. The Nobel Prize form is held in Stockholm, Sweden, every time on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. The Peace Prize isn’t awarded at this Stockholm form but presented annually in Oslo, Norway, in the presence of the King of Norway, on the same day.
3. Only 57 women have been awarded the as of 2020. Marie Curie is the first woman to win the Nobel and the only one to have entered it doubly– in 1903 for drugs and in 1911 for Chemistry.
4. The average age of Nobel Prize donors is 60 times.
5. Malala Yousafzai is the youthful Nobel Laureate who entered the Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of just 17 times. The oldest philanthropist is John B Goodenough who entered the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2019 at the age of 97 times.
6. Four scientists have won the doubly– Marie Curie, John Bardeen, Linus Pauling and Frederick Sanger.
Then’s the list of the nine Indian Nobel Prize winners till date
1. Abhijit Banerjee for Economics, 2019
2. Kailash Satyarthi for Peace, 2014
3. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan for Chemistry, 2009
4. Amartya Sen for Economics, 1998
5. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar for Physics, 1983
6. Mother Teresa for Peace, 1979
7. Hargobind Khorana for Medicine, 1968
8. CV Raman for Physics, 1930
9. Rabindranath Tagore for Literature, 1913
Who Selects the Nobel Laureates?
In his last testament, Alfred Nobel specifically designated the institutions responsible for the prizes he wished to be established
The Royal Swedish Academy of lores selects the Laureate in Physics and Chemistry, Karolinska Institute selects Nobel Laureate in the field of Physiology or drug, the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize selects Nobel Laureate in Literature, and a Committee of five persons to be tagged by the Norwegian Parliament selects for the Peace Prize.
In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic lores in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The Royal Swedish Academy of lores was given the task to elect the Laureates in Economic lores starting in 1969.
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel inked his testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine or Physiology, Literature, and Peac
The most prestigious award in the world, is given to extraordinary achievers in the fields of academic, scientific or artistic advances.
It was started in 1901 by Alfred Nobel who in his will inked off his” remaining realisable means” to be awarded . The assest amounted to further than SEK 31 million (which would be roughly SEK,702 million moment) The inventor is known for contriving dynamite but had a aggregate of 355 patents to his name at the time of his death.
The Nobel Prize is awarded in six orders each time– Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Economics, and Peace Prize. Each Nobel Prize comes with SEK (Swedish Krona) or around Rs 7 crore 22 lakh rupees.
