THE NOBEL PRIZE
ABOUT THE NOBEL PRIZE
It was 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. With some receiving
the Nobel Prize more than once, this makes a total of 835
individuals and 21 organizations. Individual recipients
have been overwhelmingly male – the award has been
given to a woman on 45 occasions.
WHERE IS IT HELD
The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway,
while the other prizes are awarded in Stockholm,
Sweden. The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the
most prestigious award available in the fields of
literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace,
and economics. in an annual ceremony on
December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.
FIRST LAUREATESAs dictated by Nobel's will,
the award is administered by
the Norwegian Nobel
Committee and awarded by a
committee of five people
elected by the Parliament of
Norway. The first Nobel Peace
Prize was awarded in 1901
to Frédéric Passy and Henry
Dunant.
REWARDS INCLUDED
Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma,
and a monetary award prize that has varied
throughout the years. In 1901, Passy and
Dunant shared a Prize of 150,782 Swedish
kronor, (equal to SR 86,264)and in 2008 it was
equal to 10,000,000 kronor in 2008 (equal to
SR. 5,721,107).
INDIANS WHO WON
1.Ronald Ross 6. Amartya Sen
2.Rudyard Kipling 7. Hargobind
Khorana
3.Rabindranath Tagore 8. Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar
4.C.V. Raman 9. Rajendra Kumar
Pachauri
5.Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
AKIRA SUZUKI
Akira Suzuki born September 12, 1930 is a
Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate
for chemistry(2010), who first published
the Suzuki reaction, in 1979. From 1963
until 1965, Suzuki worked as a postdoctoral
student with Herbert Charles
Brown at Purdue University and after
returning to the University of Hokkaidō he
became a full professor there.
VISIT AT DUNES
Other notable awards he has won
include Person of Cultural Merit And The
Order of Culture. If you haven't recalled
yet he had visited our school in the year
2011 for the Investiture Ceremony.