NOBEL PRIZE

NOBEL PRIZE

Value of the Nobel Prize

The amount of each prize varies with the income from the fund. The value of nobel prize was150,782 Swedish Crown in 1901. Now the value of nobel prize has increased to10,000,000 Swedish Crown in 2004 as compared to 9,000,000 Swedish Crown in 2000. No Nobel Prize was awarded for 1940, 1941 and 1942; Prizes for Literature were not awarded for 1914, 1918 and 1943.

Maximum Nobel Prizes

US citizenshave won outright as well as shared the maximum number of Nobel Prizes.Individually, the only person to have two Nobel Prizes: Dr Linus Carl Pauling,Professor of Chemistry at California. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistryin 1954 and the Peace Prize in 1962

First Coupleto Receive the Nobel Prize : Madame Marie Curie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize forPhysics with her husband Pierre Curie, she later won the Nobel Prize forChemistry in 1911,

Three Nobel Prizes : The International Committee of the Red Cross was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace three times: 1917, 1944 and 1963.

549 Nobel Prizes!

Between 1901 and 2011, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 549times. There have been a few years in which the Nobel Prize was not awarded,particularly during World War I and II. In the statutes of the Nobel Foundation it says: “If none of the works under consideration is found to be of the importance indicated in the first paragraph, the prize money shall be reserved until the following year. If, even then, the prize cannot be awarded, the amount shall be added to the Foundation’s restricted funds.”

853 Nobel Laureate!

830 Laureates and 23 organizations have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2011.Of them, 69 are Laureates in Economic Sciences. A small number of individuals and organizations have been honoured more than once, which means that 826 individuals and 20 unique organizations have received the Nobel Prize in total.

Years when the Nobel Prize have not been awarded

Since the start, in 1901, there are some years when the Nobel Prizes have not been awarded. The total number of times are 50. Most of them during World War I(1914-1918) and II (1939-1945).

Only 40 Nobel Prizes to women!

Between 1901 and 2011, 549 Nobel Prizes and Prizes in Economic Sciences have been awarded,40 to women and 509 to men.

Average age

The average age of all Nobel Laureates in all prize categories between 1901 and 2011 is 59years.

The youngest Nobel Laureate

To date, the youngest Nobel Laureate is Lawrence Bragg, who was just 25 years old when he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his father in 1915.

The oldest Nobel Laureate

The oldest Laureate to date is Leonid Hurwicz, who was 90 years old when he was awarded the 2007 Prize in Economic Sciences.

Two Nobel Laureates have declined the Nobel Prize!

Jean-PaulSartre, awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, declined the prize because he had consistently declined all official honours.

Le Duc Tho, awarded the1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Theywere awarded the Prize for negotiating the Vietnam peace accord. Le Doc Thosaid that he was notin a position to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, citing the situation in Vietnamas his reason.
Four Nobel Laureates have been forced by authorities to decline the Nobel Prize!

Adolf Hitler forbade three German Nobel Laureates, Richard Kuhn, Adolf Butenandt and Gerhard Domagk, from accepting the Nobel Prize. All of them could later receive theNobel Prize Diploma and Medal, but not the prize amount.

BorisPasternak, the 1958 Nobel Laureate in Literature, initially accepted the NobelPrize but was later coerced by the authorities of the Soviet Union, his nativecountry, to decline the Nobel Prize.

Multiple Nobel Laureates

The work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been honoured by a Nobel Peace Prize three times. Besides, the founder of the ICRC, Henry Dunant,was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

Linus Paulingis the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes – the 1954Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.

Posthumous Nobel Prizes

From 1974, the Statutes ofthe Nobel Foundation stipulate that a Prize cannot be awarded posthumously,unless death has occurred after the announcement of the Nobel Prize. Before1974, the Nobel Prize has only been awarded posthumously twice: to DagHammarskjöld (Nobel Peace Prize 1961) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Nobel Prize inLiterature 1931)

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Questions on Nobel Prize -

The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics

a) Dr. Radhakrishnan
b) Mihir Sen
c) C.V.Raman

Which of the following is NOT true about Nobel Prizes?

a.They can be withheld if there are no worthy candidates.
b.They can be withheld when a world situation makes awarding the prizes impractical.
c.They can be awarded posthumously.

What do the winners of the Nobel Prizes receive?
a diploma and money
a gold medal and money
money, a diploma, and a gold medal

The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize was:
Baroness Bertha von Suttner
Jane Addams
Mother Teresa

Who is VS Naipaul ?

A.In 2001, Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
B.In 1921, Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
C.In 2001, Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Science
D.In 1901, Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

From what invention did Alfred Nobel make his fortune?
Dynamite
X-rays
Antibiotics

When was the first Nobel Prize awarded?
1895
1901
1969

He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. He was best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”), Just So Stories (1902) (1894), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure).

A.Rudlard Kipling
B.Roland Ross
C.Rudyard Kipling
D.Rudlard Ross

a person of Indian origin, shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg. He had left India in 1945 and became a naturalised United States citizen in the 1970s. He continued to head a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, until his death in 2011.

A.Hargobind Khorana
B.Moody Khorana
C.Harjeet Khorana
D.Gobinda Khorana

In 1913, this author was awarded the prize “because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.” He wrote Song Offerings, Fair-Faced and The Home and the World.

Jacinto Benevente
José Echegaray
Władysław Reymont
Rabindranath Tagore

What world organization received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 for its work in helping children around the world?
The United Nations
The International Red Cross
World’s Kid’s Fund
UNICEF

What was the name of the Burmese (Myanmar) woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, and later was imprisoned for her protests of the Burmese government?
Akihito
Le Duc Tho
Aung San Suu Kyi
Bai Ling

Why are the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies on 10 December each year?
It was Alfred Nobel’s birthday
It was that day he got his patent for dynamite
It was the day that Alfred Nobel died

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1953. In what prize category?
A.Literature
B.Peace
C.Physics

When the Nobel Prize was established in 1901, there were only 5 awards. Which of these awards was added in 1968?
Physics
Peace
Economics

Which of the following is not a category in Nobel Prize Awards ?

a) Physics
b) Chemistry
c) Mathematics
d) Literature

One organization has been awarded a Nobel Prize three times. Which one?
A.Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
B.Amnesty International
C.International Committee of the Red Cross

has served as the chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 during his tenure. He has been the director general of TERI, a research and policy organization in India, and chancellor of TERI University; besides being the chairman of the governing council of the National Agro Foundation (NAF), as well as the chairman of the board of Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society. Pachauri has been outspoken about climate change. He is now serving as the head of Yale’s Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI).

A.Rajendra Pachauri
B.Hargobind Khorana
C.Rajendra Khorana
D.Hargobind Pachauri

The Nobel Prize in Economics is really awarded by what institution?
The World Bank
International Monetary Fund
Bank of Sweden

Who was Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar?

A.Nobel Prize in Medicine 1983
B.Nobel Prize in Physics 1983
C.Nobel Prize in Physics 1991
D.Nobel Prize in Medicine 1991

was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, awarded to him in 1998 for his work on welfare economics. He has made several key contributions to research in this field, such as to the axiomatic theory of social choice; the definitions of welfare and poverty indexes; and the empirical studies of famine. All are linked by his interest in distributional issues and particularly in those most impoverished. Whereas Kenneth Arrow’s “impossibility theorem” suggested that it was not possible to aggregate individual choices into a satisfactory choice for society as a whole, Sen showed that societies could find ways to alleviate such a poor outcome.

A.Amartya Sen
B.Amar Sinha
C.Roland Ross
D.Hargobind Sen

Which prominent public figure was never awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?
Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King

All the Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm except one. Which one?
The Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded in Oslo, Norway
The Nobel Prize in Literature, which is awarded in Helsinki, Finland
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which is awarded in Copenhagen, Denmark

Who is awarded by the Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize for 2011 ?

a) Brian P. Schmidt
b) Christopher A. Sims
c) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
d) Bruce A. Beutler

Which of these American Presidents has not been the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize?
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.”
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Godfrey Philips
CV Rajaram mohan
Chandrashekhar Venkata Raman (CV Raman)
Amartya Sen