Nobel Prize

Introduction & Top Questions
The selection process
The prizes
List of Nobel Prize winners
- Nobelists by year
- Nobelists by prize
  - Chemistry
  - Economics
  - Literature
  - Peace
  - Physics
  - Physiology or Medicine

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Nobel Prize medal for Physics and Chemistry (reverse)

Nobel Prize medal for Physiology or Medicine (reverse)

Nobel Prize medal for Literature (reverse)

How Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee defines peace

What inspires Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee to fight injustice

Gold Nobel Prize medallion featuring a left-facing portrait of Alfred Nobel, displayed against a dark background at the Science Museum in Singapore.

At a Glance

Nobel Prize summary

Quizzes

Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

History Buff Quiz

American author Toni Morrison, 2009. (Nobel Prize for Literature 1993)

Nobel Laureates in Literature

Chinese author Gao Xingjian, 2008, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000.

A Nobel Prize for Literature (Mostly) Quiz

Related Questions

Can a Nobel Prize be awarded to an organization?
Can someone win more than one Nobel Prize?
How are Nobel Prize diplomas made?
How are the Ig Nobel Prizes different from the Nobel Prizes?
How can a Nobel Prize be shared among multiple winners?
How did Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite help create the Nobel Prizes?
How did Alfred Nobel’s will establish the Nobel Prizes?
How did Bertha von Suttner influence Alfred Nobel’s decision to establish the Nobel Peace Prize?
How did Boris Pasternak come to decline the Nobel Prize in Literature?
How did the Nobel Foundation manage Alfred Nobel’s fortune?
How does the Norwegian Nobel Committee select members?
How is Nobel Prize money divided when several people share an award?
How many people are invited to submit Nobel Prize nominations each year?
On what date are Nobel Prize award ceremonies held?
What does a Nobel Prize winner receive?
What happens to the Nobel Prize money when a winner declines an award?
What happens when a Nobel Prize is not awarded in a particular year?
When was the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel first awarded?
When were the Nobel Prizes first awarded?
Where are the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and economics presented?
Which Latin inscription appears on the medals for the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature?
Which artist designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal?
Which five prize categories did Alfred Nobel establish in his will?
Which institution awards the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Which institution awards the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Which institution awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
Which organization awards the Nobel Peace Prize?
Which rules in Alfred Nobel’s will say that nationality should not affect Nobel Prize decisions?
Who voluntarily refused a Nobel Prize?
Why did Le Duc Tho decline the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize?
Why is the Nobel Peace Prize presented in Oslo instead of Stockholm?
Why is the economics award not technically a Nobel Prize?
Why was Carl von Ossietzky’s Nobel Peace Prize controversial in Nazi Germany?
Why was the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize shared by Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres controversial?
Why were some Nobel Prizes withheld during World Wars I and II?
What does a Nobel Prize winner get?
What does the Nobel Prize look like?
Can a Nobel Peace Prize be given away?
Who has refused a Nobel Prize?
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Nobel Prize, any of the prizes (five in number until 1969, when a sixth was added) that are awarded annually from a fund bequeathed for that purpose by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel. The Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement in the world. To browse Nobel Prize winners alphabetically, chronologically, and by prize, see below. In the will he drafted in 1895, Nobel instructed that...

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