27 Facts About Nobel lecture

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Nobel lecture Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.

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Nobel lecture Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards available in their respective fields.

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Nobel lecture Prizes, beginning in 1901, and the Nobel lecture Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, beginning in 1969, have been awarded 609 times to 975 people and 25 organizations.

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Alfred Nobel lecture was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family of engineers.

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5.

In 1894, Nobel lecture purchased the Bofors iron and steel mill, which he made into a major armaments manufacturer.

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In 1888, Nobel lecture was astonished to read his own obituary, titled "The merchant of death is dead", in a French newspaper.

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The article disconcerted Nobel lecture and made him apprehensive about how he would be remembered.

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On 10 December 1896, Alfred Nobel lecture died in his villa in San Remo, Italy, from a cerebral haemorrhage.

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Nobel lecture composed the last over a year before he died, signing it at the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris on 27 November 1895.

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10.

Nobel lecture's instructions named a Norwegian Nobel lecture Committee to award the Peace Prize, the members of whom were appointed shortly after the will was approved in April 1897.

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11.

The Nobel lecture Foundation reached an agreement on guidelines for how the prizes should be awarded; and, in 1900, the Nobel lecture Foundation's newly created statutes were promulgated by King Oscar II.

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12.

Nobel lecture Foundation was founded as a private organization on 29 June 1900.

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13.

Robert and Ludvig Nobel were involved in the oil business in Azerbaijan, and according to Swedish historian E Bargengren, who accessed the Nobel family archive, it was this "decision to allow withdrawal of Alfred's money from Baku that became the decisive factor that enabled the Nobel Prizes to be established".

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In many ways, the Nobel lecture Foundation is similar to an investment company, in that it invests Nobel lecture's money to create a solid funding base for the prizes and the administrative activities.

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15.

The Nobel lecture Foundation is exempt from all taxes in Sweden and from investment taxes in the United States.

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16.

The remaining members escaped persecution from the Germans when the Nobel lecture Foundation stated that the committee building in Oslo was Swedish property.

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17.

The board of the Nobel lecture Foundation decided that after this addition, it would allow no further new prizes.

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18.

Nobel lecture's will provided for prizes to be awarded in recognition of discoveries made "during the preceding year".

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19.

The Prizes awarded in Sweden's ceremonies are held at the Stockholm Concert Hall, with the Nobel lecture banquet following immediately at Stockholm City Hall.

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20.

Nobel lecture Foundation announced on 30 May 2012 that it had awarded the contract for the production of the five Nobel lecture Prize medals to Svenska Medalj AB.

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21.

Nobel lecture's portrait appears on the obverse of the Peace Prize medal and the medal for the Economics Prize, but with a slightly different design.

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22.

Nobel lecture laureates receive a diploma directly from the hands of the King of Sweden, or in the case of the peace prize, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel lecture Committee.

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23.

Nobel lecture alleged that Jelinek's works were "a mass of text shovelled together without artistic structure".

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24.

In 1948, the year of Gandhi's death, the Norwegian Nobel lecture Committee decided to make no award that year on the grounds that "there was no suitable living candidate".

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25.

Alfred Nobel lecture left his fortune to finance annual prizes to be awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind".

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Nobel lecture stated that the Nobel Prizes in Physics should be given "to the person who shall have made the most important 'discovery' or 'invention' within the field of physics".

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27.

Statue and memorial symbol Planet of Alfred Nobel lecture was opened in Alfred Nobel lecture University of Economics and Law in Dnipro, Ukraine in 2008.

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