Nobel prizes mark 100th anniversary.This year the Nobel prizes Nobel Prizes Year Peace Chemistry Physics Physiology or Medicine Literature 1901 J. H. Dunant Frédéric Passy J. H. van't Hoff W. C. Roentgen E. A. von Behring R. F. A. Sully-Prudhomme 1902 Élie Ducommun C. A. given out for world-class accomplishments in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine are a century old. Founder Alfred B. Nobel, a chemical engineer who became rich after inventing dynamite, set aside a fortune in his will to establish prizes for those who have "conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." Nobel died in 1896, and the first prizes were awarded in 1901. The prize for economics was initiated by the Bank of Sweden in 1968. Since their beginnings, the Nobels have become synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as making it to the summit of achievement. Winners find themselves on a list that includes Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Marie Curie Curie (kürē`), family of French scientists. Pierre Curie, 1859–1906, scientist, and his wife, Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1867–1934, chemist and physicist, b. , and Alexander Fleming. The Nobel prizes that were unveiled this week by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. The Academy is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization which acts to promote the sciences, primarily the natural sciences and mathematics. will be awarded in December in Stockholm and Oslo in formal ceremonies sure to surpass all previous ones. Some anniversary observances have already begun. U.S. composer Steve Heitzeg has written a six-movement "Nobel Symphony," commissioned by Gustavus Adolphus College Gustavus Adolphus College is a private liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America founded in Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1862 by Eric Norelius and was originally named Minnesota Elementar Skola. In 1865 on the 1,000th year anniversary of the death of St. in St. Peter, Minn. It premiered earlier this month at the school's annual conference highlighting Nobel laureates' achievements. Also, the United States, Sweden, and Norway have printed postage stamps commemorating the anniversary, and Norway has begun minting a silver coin to mark the event. |
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