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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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