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The 2022 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics , Chemistry , Physiology or Medicine , Literature , Peace , and Economic Sciences .
Protests against World War I at the 1915 Women's Peace Conference in The Hague. The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish: Nobels fredspris) 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.
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to one individual and two organisations which advocate human rights and civil liberty.The recipients were the Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski (born 1962), the Russian human rights organisation Memorial (founded in 1989) and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties (founded in 2007). [1]
Three Texans, including Fort Worth’s Opal Lee, have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. We’ll find out Friday if another Texan will be crowned with the world’s most elite award.
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]
The 2022 Nobel Prize in economics will be announced on Monday. The prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out on Dec. 10. The money comes from ...
Shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics [bi] with J.H.D.Jensen and M.Goeppert-Mayer [329] Willard Libby: December 17, 1908 Grand Valley, United States September 8, 1980 Los Angeles, United States 1953, 1956, 1957, 1960 Won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [330] Edwin Hubble: November 20, 1889 Marshfield, Missouri, United States September 28, 1953
The announcement of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in Stockholm. The winner of the prize was Paul Krugman.. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially known as The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Swedish: Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an award funded by Sveriges Riksbank and ...