2. ABOUT THE NOBEL PRIZE
It was the will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established
the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or
Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901. With
some receiving the Nobel Prize more than once, this makes a total
of 835 individuals and 21 organizations. Individual recipients have
been overwhelmingly male – the award has been given to a woman
on 45 occasions.
3. WHERE IS IT HELD
The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, while the
other prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel
Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award
available in the fields of
literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, and
economics. in an annual ceremony on December 10, the
anniversary of Nobel's death.
4. FIRST LAUREATES
As dictated by Nobel's will, the award
is administered by the Norwegian Nobel
Committee and awarded by a committee
of five people elected by the Parliament
of Norway. The first Nobel Peace Prize
was awarded in 1901 to Frédéric
Passy and Henry Dunant.
5. REWARDS INCLUDED
Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma, and a
monetary award prize that has varied throughout the
years. In 1901, Passy and Dunant shared a Prize of
150,782 Swedish kronor, (equal to SR 86,264)and in
2008 it was equal to 10,000,000 kronor in 2008 (equal
to SR. 5,721,107).
6. INDIANS WHO WON
1. Ronald Ross 6. Amartya Sen
2. Rudyard Kipling 7. Hargobind Khorana
3. Rabindranath Tagore 8. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
4. C.V. Raman 9. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri
5. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
7.
8. AKIRA SUZUKI
Akira Suzuki born September 12, 1930 is a Japanese
chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate for chemistry(2010), who
first published the Suzuki reaction, in 1979. From 1963 until
1965, Suzuki worked as a postdoctoral student with Herbert
Charles Brown at Purdue University and after returning to
the University of Hokkaidō he became a full professor
there.
9. VISIT AT DUNES
Other notable awards he has won include Person
of Cultural Merit And The Order of Culture. If you
haven't recalled yet he had visited our school in the
year 2011 for the Investiture Ceremony.
