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- 1. Dr. Ali Mallah CSS-2012 & PCS-2018 CURRENT AFFAIRS NOBEL PRIZE Municipal/Town Officer Test Preparation Session _______________________________________ Lecture 04
- 2. Nobel Prize • On 10 December 1901 the first Nobel Prizes were awarded, in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace and Ecomonics in 1968. • The Nobel Prizes are six separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 27 November 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to Mankind." Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist most famously known for the invention of dynamite. • Born: October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden • Died: December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy • Winners receive a diploma and a medal, and each prize is also awarded 10 million Swedish krona, or about $1.1 million, which is divided if there are multiple winners. 2
- 3. 3 • Sweden Awards 5 prizes and Norway awards Peace Prize. • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences) • Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute (Physiology or Medicine) • Swedish Academy (Literature) • Norwegian Nobel Committee (Peace) • Youngest Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai Peace 2014 (Pakistan) aged 17. The Oldest John B. Goodenough (Germany) Chemistry aged 97. • Two Nobel Prize laureates declined the prize Jean-Paul Sartre, awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. • Le Duc Tho, awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. • Linus Pauling is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes – the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.
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