Nobel – prize for the dream of scientists – rmf24.pl

On Monday, about time. 11.30 Polish time we will know the names of the first year’s Nobel Prize winners – in the field of physiology and medicine. In the following days the Swedish Academy of Sciences shows the winners in physics and chemistry. This prestigious award, which I think we all dream of scientists, funded by engineer and inventor Alfred Bernhard Nobel. The award is given by 113 years.

Bust of Alfred Nobel

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Prize in Physiology or Medicine grants committee, founded in 1810 at the Karolinska Institute in Solna in Stockholm. Laureates in physics and chemistry indicates the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, she emerges a winner –funded by Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) – Nobel Prize in economics. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize indicates the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and literary – Swedish Academy.

Since 2012 the winners – instead of the previously granted SEK 10 million – receive the 8 million kronor (per 940 thousand. Euros instead of 1.2 million). In addition to the financial award, each of the winners receives a diploma and a medal. On the obverse of the coin bears the profile of prize founder Alfred Nobel, along with the date of his birth and death recorded in Roman numerals. This side of the coin is the same for medicine and physiology, physics, chemistry, and literature, as decorations in these categories made Swedish sculptor and engraver Erik Lindberg. Somewhat different obverse of the coin for the Nobel Peace Prize and established only in 1968, the prize in economics.

Calendar Prize laureate 2014.

On Tuesday, 7 October at approx. 11.45 find out who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, and on Wednesday, October 8, at the same time we will know the winners in chemistry.

On Friday, October 10 at. 11 indicated will be the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and October 13 hrs. 13:00, winner in economic sciences. According to tradition, the date announced winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature will be disclosed at a later date.

Nobel Prize in a nutshell

Noblowska Foundation was founded 114 years ago. A year later, ie in 1901., Four years after the death of the Nobel Prize, was awarded first prize. According to tradition, they are awarded to the winners in the subsequent anniversaries of the death of the founder – December 10 and announced about two months earlier.

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Since 1901 winners are elected every year in the field: literature , physics, chemistry and medicine or physiology. Equally long is awarded a Peace Prize. Alfred Nobel did not establish awards for economists, to be granted only since 1968. Its founder is the Bank of Sweden.

Each medal weighs an average of 175 grams and has a diameter of 66 millimeters. This is the heaviest of the economy, which weighs a few grams more than the other. Each winner receives a medal, but may wish his reply. This, however, is stamped only with bronze and gold-plated.

Statistical Nobel Prize winner is …

Statistically speaking, to give the Nobel laureates have an average of 59 years. Not everyone needs to wait so long for a dream award. The youngest Nobel Prize winner in history is Lawrence Bragg, who in 1915, at the age of 25 years together with his father received the Nobel Prize in physics. The oldest date is Leonid Hurwicz winner of that in 2007., When he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economic sciences, was 90 years.

In accordance with the will of the founder of the award in the field can be divided into a maximum of between three people. From 1901 to 2013. Award but mostly getting to the individual winners.

Few scholars and organizations honored more than once. In this group include Maria Sklodowska-Curie , which in 1903. Received the Nobel Prize in physics – together with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, in 1911. Chemistry – for research on radioactivity and the discovery of new elements: radium and polonium . The only scholar who received the Nobel Prize twice alone, is an American physicist and chemist Linus Pauling – in 1954. Received the award in chemistry, in 1962. Nobel Peace Prize.

three times Nobel Peace Prize were awarded the International Committee of Red Cross.

The idea of ​​Alfred Nobel survived the turbulent twentieth century. Over the past century, several times but have not been awarded – because of the war, the lack of candidates or formal defects.

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