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The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded 577 times to 889 recipients, of which 26 awards (all Peace Prizes) were to organizations. Due to some recipients receiving multiple awards, the total number of recipients is 860 individuals and 22 organizations. [1] The present list ranks laureates under the country/countries ...
Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. The winners in each category were announced from October 7 to October 14. Nobel Week was scheduled to take place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions.
An associated prize in Economics has been awarded since 1969. [1] Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals. [2] Asians have been the recipients of all six award categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. The first Asian recipient, Rabindranath Tagore, was awarded the Literature Prize ...
Winners are given a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award of about $1.1 million. Established by Alfred Nobel in 1901, past laureates have included Albert Einstein , Marie Curie , and the Rev ...
Nobel died in 1895 but it took until 1901, following a legal battle over his will, before the first prizes were awarded. Nobel named the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to award the prizes for ...
Here’s a list of potential Nobel Peace Prize winners based on the odds from the Nicerodds.co.uk betting site and the annual shortlist created by Henrik Urdal, director of the Peace Research ...
List of Catholic priests and religious awarded the Nobel Prize; List of Christian Nobel laureates; J. List of Jewish Nobel laureates; L.
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]