Nobel Prize

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For a comprehensive list of Nobel Prize recipients sorted by year, see List of Nobel laureates.

For information on Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel,

see Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

The Nobel Prize

Awarded for

Outstanding contributions for

mankind in Physics, Chemistry,

Literature, Peace, Physiology or

Medicine

Country Sweden,

Norway (Peace Prize only)

Presented by

Swedish Academy

Nobel committee of Royal Swedish

Academy of Sciences

Nobel committee of Karolinska

Institutet

Norwegian Nobel Committee

First awarded 1901

1969 (Economic Sciences)

Official website nobelprize.org

The Nobel Prize (Swedish pronunciation: [nbl], Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset;

Norwegian: Nobelprisen) is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of

categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of academic, cultural and/or

scientific advances. 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.[1] The related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was established by

Sweden's central bank in 1968. The Nobel prize was made of the mixture of gold and silver with

24 carat or 4.8.g gold coating. Between 1901 and 2012, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in

Economic Sciences were awarded 555 times to 856 people and organizations. With some

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