Nobel Prizes - 2005
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Last Modified: 12/20/05
Summary: The Nobel Prizes, which are generally awarded annually in the categories listed below, are widely regarded as the supreme commendation in the world today.American writer John Steinbeck , winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, whose protest novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) offered hope in the face of the dispossession of the Great Depression .
The Nobel Prizes
Any of the prizes
(five in number until 1969, when a sixth was added) that are awarded
annually from a fund bequeathed for that purpose by the Swedish
inventor and industrialist
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
. The Nobel
Prizes
are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement in the world.
Learn about the Nobel prize winning scientist Marie Curie and the discovery of radium.
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/16646145,,,1135115344,,search,,view.htmlSteinbeck found peace and happiness with his third wife, Elaine Scott, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/16646145,,,1135115344,,search,,view.htmlHarold Pinter awarded with this year's Nobel Prize for Literature
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Major Temple Museum, Mexico City - Rigoberta Menchu's Nobel Prize
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The Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement in the world. They are recognized by virtually every scientist, and they are also among the few prizes known by name to many ordinary citizens. The only international prizes that approach them in importance are those awarded in the Olympic Games.
Nobel prizes
- Nobel Prize in Physics (decided by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (decided by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (decided by Karolinska Institutet)
- Nobel Prize for Literature (decided by the Swedish Academy)
- Nobel Peace Prize (decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, appointed by the Norwegian Parliament, Stortinget)
- Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (decided by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Sir Edward Appleton's medal
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/16646145,,,1135113759,,search,,view.htmlLink: The Ig Nobel Web Page
Summary: 2004 Ig Nobel Peace Prize winner Daisuke Inoue -- the inventor of karaoke -- is ... All Ig Nobel Prizes activities are organized by the Annals of Improbable ...
Link: Female Nobel Prize Laureates
Summary: In 1903, only two years after the Nobel Foundation was established, the first Nobel Prize was awarded to a woman, Marie Curie. Women have been winning Nobel ...
Link: The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Summary: The Nobel Prize Internet Archive contains up-to-date information of all latest and past Nobel Prize laureates.
Link: The Nobel Foundation
Summary: Awards the annual prestigious Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, peace, medicine, economics, and literature. Site includes history, listing of laureates, ...
