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Alfred Bernhard Nobel (/ n o ... Hess was a Jewish Christian and the letters include remarks by Nobel characterized as antisemitism.
In an estimate by Baruch Shalev, between 1901 and 2000 about 65.4% of Nobel prize winners were either Christians or had a Christian background. [1] Here is a non exhaustive list of some of the prize winners who publicly identified themselves as Christians.
Distribution of atheists, agnostics, and freethinkers in Nobel Prizes between 1901-2000. [1] This list of nonreligious Nobel laureates comprises laureates of the Nobel Prize who have self-identified as atheist, agnostic, freethinker, or otherwise nonreligious at some point in their lives. [2] Many of these laureates earlier identified with a ...
Overall, 72.5% of all the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, [87] 65.3% in Physics, [87] 62% in Medicine, [87] 54% in Economics were either Christians or had a Christian background. [ 87 ] John Hall Gladstone (1827–1902): served as president of the Physical Society between 1874 and 1876 and during 1877–1879 was president of the Chemical Society .
Alexis Carrel – French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 [25] Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter, raised atheist by his father but later converted to Catholicism; Alfred Döblin, German novelist, essayist and doctor, a former convert from Judaism to atheism
Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein (1842–1907) Pope Benedict XV (baptismal name: Giacomo della Chiesa) 21 November 1854 Pegli, Genoa, Italy 22 January 1922 Rome, Italy 1915, 1916, 1920 "for his peace efforts and his work to ensure that prisoners of war were treated humanely." [19]
An additional prize in memory of Alfred Nobel was established in 1968 by the Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) for outstanding contributions to the field of economics. Each recipient, a Nobelist or laureate , receives a gold medal , a diploma , and a sum of money which is decided annually by the Nobel Foundation.
Protests against World War I at the 1915 Women's Peace Conference in The Hague. The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and industrialist, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.