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Adolf Hitler forbade four Germans, Richard Kuhn (Chemistry, 1938), Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk (Physiology or Medicine, 1939) and Carl von Ossietzky (Peace, 1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese government forbade Liu Xiaobo from accepting his Nobel Prize (Peace, 2010) [ 9 ] and the government of the Soviet ...
The Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901 to Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant, who shared a prize of 150,782 Swedish kronor (equal to 7,731,004 kronor in 2008), and most recently in 2023 to Narges Mohammadi.
Won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize but was awarded the following year. Nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature too. [291] James Chapple: August 23, 1865 Rockhampton, Queensland Colony April 8, 1947 Auckland, New Zealand 1930 [292] Gustav Adolf Deissmann [gf] November 7, 1866 Langenscheid, Kingdom of Prussia April 5, 1937 Zossen, Nazi Germany 1930 [293]
Since 1990, the ceremony has taken place at Oslo City Hall. From 1947 to 1989, the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony was held in the Atrium of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, a few hundred meters from Oslo City Hall. Between 1905 and 1946, the ceremony took place at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. From 1901 to 1904, the ceremony took place in ...
Won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [hv] (id=1621) Svante Arrhenius [hw] February 19, 1859 Wik Castle, Sweden: October 2, 1927 Stockholm, Sweden 1912, 1914 Won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [hx] and nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too (id=511) Oscar Loew [hy] April 2, 1844 Marktredwitz, German Confederation: January 26, 1941
Many widely read writers, like Leo Tolstoy, have never won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors which, according to the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the benefactor of the prize, has produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction". [1]
This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country. Listings for Economics refer to the related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. 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 ...
1. Yiddish. 1. 1 Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature 1913) wrote in Bengali and English, Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize in Literature 1969) wrote in French and English and Joseph Brodsky (Nobel Prize in Literature 1987) wrote poetry in Russian and prose in English.