• For more than a century, these academic institutions have worked independently to select Nobel Prize laureates. (nobelprize.org)
  • Eleven laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize in 2023, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. (nobelprize.org)
  • This page lists Nobel Prize laureates with links to our presentations of Nordic Authors. (runeberg.org)
  • Those honored with a Prize are known as Nobel Laureates . (mywikibiz.com)
  • The committees and institutions that serve as selection boards for the Prizes typically announce the names of the laureates in October. (mywikibiz.com)
  • The list of laureates may be viewed at the official Nobel Site . (gutenberg.net.au)
  • See graphic "Nobel laureates and Disarmament " published by UN Office of Disarmament Affairs for additional information and a broader overview. (ipb.org)
  • The 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Polish novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer. (wikipedia.org)
  • For 1905, the Nobel committee shortlisted Henryk Sienkiewicz, Giosuè Carducci and Eliza Orzeszkowa,[citation needed] the first female author shortlisted for the Nobel Prize. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Nobel Prize in Literature 1905 nobelprize.org Henryk Sienkiewicz - Facts Nomination archive - 1905 nobelprize.org Nomination archive - Godfrey Sweven nobelprize.org Svensén, Bo. (wikipedia.org)
  • Henryk Sienkiewicz received a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905. (literaturecollection.com)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre explained his refusal to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature in a statement made to the Swedish Press on October 22, which appeared in Le Monde in a French translation approved by Sartre. (nybooks.com)
  • She was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature: in 1905 and in 1909. (ohioswallow.com)
  • The Nobel Prizes are prizes awarded annually to people (and, in the case of the Peace Prize , sometimes to organizations) who have completed outstanding research, invented ground-breaking techniques or equipment, or made an outstanding contribution to society in physics , chemistry , literature , peace , medicine or physiology and economics . (mywikibiz.com)
  • She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature , which she was awarded in 1909. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The Nobel Prize for Literature was first awarded in 1901 to Sully Prudhomme. (gutenberg.net.au)
  • American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a stunning announcement that for the first time bestowed the prestigious award on a musician. (dailysabah.com)
  • Dylan is the first American winner of the Nobel literature prize since Toni Morrison in 1992. (dailysabah.com)
  • The literature award was the last of this year's Nobel Prizes to be announced. (dailysabah.com)
  • 1901 - Austrian pathologist Dr Karl Landsteiner discovers the ABO blood groups and goes on to carry out extensive research in blood typing which earns him a Nobel Prize in 1930. (nhsbt.nhs.uk)
  • In 1901, Roentgen received the first Nobel Prize in Physics. (wikidoc.org)
  • In 1905 Einstein received the Nobel Prize for the photoelectric effect leading to solar cells, and 1939 at the University of Chicago with the proof of nuclear fission. (forbes.com)
  • Einstein stole it, passed it off as his own without referencing De Pretto and published it as his own in 1905. (stormfront.org)
  • Einstein agreed to give her all the Nobel prize money in his divorce settlement. (stormfront.org)
  • 3).Einstein was given the Nobel Prize in 1922, 17 years after his 1905 paper. (stormfront.org)
  • There were a bunch of reasons why Einstein was never given a Nobel Prize. (everything-everywhere.com)
  • Everyone figured that 1920 would be the year when Einstein finally won his Nobel Prize. (everything-everywhere.com)
  • In his diaries, found long after his death, he wrote of the 1921 physics prize, "Einstein must never receive a Nobel Prize, even if the whole world demands it. (everything-everywhere.com)
  • By 1922, the Nobel Committee was looking ridiculous in the eyes of the world and in the eyes of the physics community for not giving Einstein a prize. (everything-everywhere.com)
  • So Einstein won his Nobel Prize, but it explicitly was not for relativity. (everything-everywhere.com)
  • Around 1900 there were large activities in the colloid area and even Einstein in the year of 1905 also published the classical theoretical analysis of brownian motion at equilibrium and those who made the fi rst advances in biochemistry at this time often identifi ed themselves as colloid scientists. (lu.se)
  • Alfred Nobel's testament assigned the responsibility of the Peace Prize to the Norwegian parliament, which is called the Storting. (reason.com)
  • The Prizes are then awarded at formal ceremonies held annually on December 10 , the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. (mywikibiz.com)
  • The six awards will be handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896. (dailysabah.com)
  • A few Prize winners have declined the award. (mywikibiz.com)
  • If there are three winners, the awarding committee has the option of splitting the prize money equally among all three, or awarding half of the prize money to one recipient and one-quarter to each of the other two. (mywikibiz.com)
  • Nobel Prize winners represented at Project Gutenberg include the following. (gutenberg.net.au)
  • Explore our digital archive back to 1845, including articles by more than 150 Nobel Prize winners. (scientificamerican.com)
  • He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • citation needed] The committee had planned a shared prize between Sienkiewicz and Orzeszkowa both the previous year and for 1905, but was rejected because Sienkiewicz was seen as more vital and greater writer than Orzeszkowa. (wikipedia.org)
  • page needed] It is often incorrectly asserted that Sienkiewicz received his Nobel Prize for Quo Vadis. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Burton Feldman, the Nobel judges needed only nine years to honur Sienkiewicz for his Quo Vadis - "displacing Tolstoy," claimed a Nobel evaluator. (wikipedia.org)
  • Until the Norwegian Nobel Committee was established in 1904, the President of Norwegian Parliament made the formal presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize. (mywikibiz.com)
  • If I sign myself Jean-Paul Sartre it is not the same thing as if I sign myself Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prizewinner . (nybooks.com)
  • My sympathies for the Venezuelan revolutionists commit only myself, while if Jean-Paul Sartre the Nobel laureate champions the Venezuelan resistance, he also commits the entire Nobel Prize as an institution. (nybooks.com)
  • He is the first Polish author to win the Nobel Prize in the literary category and the second Polish citizen to win in general after the chemist Maria Skłodowska Curie in 1903. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1892 she promised to keep Alfred Nobel informed on the progress of the peace movement and, if possible, to convince him of its effectiveness. (ipb.org)
  • I would also disagree with Jogalekar about which of Einstein's 1905 papers was genuinely "surprising"-- special relativity is weird , but follows naturally from a rigorous consideration of the foundations of physics. (scienceblogs.com)
  • 2).Strong probability that Einstein's wife did most -if not all- of the work in Einstein's 1905 and 1915 papers. (stormfront.org)
  • One of Einstein's best friends in the physics community in 1905 was Michele Besso. (stormfront.org)
  • It is common for the recipients to donate the prize money to benefit scientific, cultural or humanitarian causes. (mywikibiz.com)
  • This nomination was later declared invalid by the Nobel Committee because nomination of oneself is not permitted. (wikipedia.org)
  • When Nobel died in 1896, Norway was not yet independent, though there was local self-rule. (reason.com)
  • Nobel Prize Committee Chair Thorbjørn Jagland is shamelessly seeking the spotlight. (reason.com)
  • But the real story is that Thorbjørn Jagland, the new committee chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, wanted to start his tenure with a splash. (reason.com)
  • The Storting selects the Nobel Committee, but the tradition is to select emeritus members of the political community that are no longer in active politics. (reason.com)
  • Some legal experts suggested Jagland should resign from the Nobel Committee. (reason.com)
  • Leading an international organization of 50 nations could lead critics to question the independence of the Nobel Committee, said Eivind Smith, law professor at the University of Oslo. (reason.com)
  • One wonders if the Nobel Committee wanted to achieve the status provided by giving the Prize to the sitting American president," said Nils Buthenschøn, president of the Human Rights Institute. (reason.com)
  • His work on relativity had been nominated by many physicists over several years, but the Nobel committee never gave him a prize. (everything-everywhere.com)
  • The Nobel committee didn't want to honor someone who was so outside the mainstream. (everything-everywhere.com)
  • The attitude of the Nobel committee was summed up by one Allvar Gullstrand, a Swedish ophthalmologist who sat on the physics committee. (everything-everywhere.com)
  • He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1905 for 'the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Transplant pioneer Alexis Carrell received the Nobel Prize for his work in the field. (history.com)
  • The details of his 1905 Nobel Prize-winning work are beyond the scope of this article, however. (videomaker.com)
  • Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work. (ebooksread.com)
  • Since 1902 , the King of Sweden has, with the exception of the Peace Prize, presented all the prizes in Stockholm . (mywikibiz.com)
  • Stockholm Concert Hall, venue for the annual Nobel Prize award ceremonies. (mywikibiz.com)
  • As of 2005, the other Prize ceremonies have been held at the Stockholm Concert Hall . (mywikibiz.com)
  • It is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in accordance with the same principles as those for the other five Nobel Prizes. (mywikibiz.com)
  • I know that the Nobel Prize in itself is not a literary prize of the Western bloc, but it is what is made of it, and events may occur which are outside the province of the members of the Swedish Academy. (nybooks.com)
  • The prize in economics , instituted by the Bank of Sweden , has been awarded since 1969. (mywikibiz.com)
  • Officially called The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , this prize was not willed by Alfred Nobel, but instituted by the central bank of Sweden . (mywikibiz.com)
  • At first King Oscar II did not approve of awarding grand prizes to foreigners, but is said to have changed his mind once his attention had been drawn to the publicity value of the prizes for Sweden. (mywikibiz.com)
  • Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was born on July 29, 1905, in Jönköping, Sweden. (britannica.com)
  • The announcement brought a surprised gasp from the media that was crammed into the Nobel Institute building and Twitter exploded with acerbic comments from members of Storting, pundits, and reporters. (reason.com)
  • Each Prize stipulates, however, that it must be awarded at least once every five years. (mywikibiz.com)
  • Dylan had been mentioned in the Nobel speculation for years, but few experts expected the academy to extend the prestigious award to a genre such as popular music. (dailysabah.com)
  • I should thus be quite as unable to accept, for example, the Lenin Prize, if someone wanted to give it to me, which is not the case. (nybooks.com)
  • But before we look more at Jagland, let's look at the history of the Peace Prize. (reason.com)
  • Thus the Norwegians would be in charge of the Peace Prize because they would be able to keep the Prize untainted from national political concerns. (reason.com)
  • Her efforts earned her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905, the first woman to be so recognized. (peacewomen.org)
  • Hammarskjöld was posthumously awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1961. (britannica.com)
  • She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905. (ipb.org)
  • I was not aware at the time that the Nobel Prize is awarded without consulting the opinion of the recipient, and I believed there was time to prevent this from happening. (nybooks.com)
  • Dylan was also awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his contributions to music and American culture. (dailysabah.com)
  • This was probably the only time in the history of the Nobel when the winner was determined before the reason for the award. (everything-everywhere.com)
  • British immunologist Peter Medawar, who had studied immunosuppression's role in transplant failures, received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of acquired immune tolerance. (history.com)
  • during World War II , for instance, no Prizes were awarded in any category between 1940 and 1942. (mywikibiz.com)