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Nobel Prize Award
Toni Morrison was the first black women to recieve the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is the highest honor an Author can recieve.
In 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. won the special award called the "Nobel Peace Prize."
You have to make a difference in the way people believe. You have to have done something for society
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1919 was awarded to Carl Spitteler in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring.
You have to make a difference in the way people believe. You have to have done something for society
You have to make a difference in the way people believe. You have to have done something for society
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
Between 1901 and 2011, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 549 times.
When someone, usually in the media or in a TV-show, talks about winning the Nobel Prize, they are most often referring the Nobel Prize in Science. This is a very lose way of referring to it; The Nobel Prize is not ONE prize but several given annually to a number of fields including: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. They are all undeniably considered honorable to win, and boosts one's career within their respective field. Very few ever win a Nobel Prize twice. All of the them are given in Sweden with the exception of the Peace Prize, which is given in Norway.
The Nobel Peace Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and the founder of the Nobel Prizes. In his will, Nobel specified that a prize be awarded to the person or organization that has done the most or best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the promotion of peace congresses.
The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. Source: nobelprize.org