“I do not see that I have deserved any fame and I have no taste for it.” Alfred Nobel |
During his life he often felt he was useless. He was world famous for his works he was never personally well known, for throughout his life he avoid publicity. But since his death his name brought fame and glory to others. His greatest wish was to see an end of wars and thus peace between nations. His famous will, dated November 27, 1895, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology and Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics is a memorial to his interests and ideals. And so the man who felt he should have died at birth is remembered and respected long after his death. Candidates for a Nobel prize must be recommended in writing by a qualified authority. Final decisions are made for physics, chemistry and economics. Each December 10, on the anniversary of Nobel's death, the prize-awarding bodies—the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Physics, Economics, and Chemistry), the Swedish Academy (Literature), the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute (Physiology or Medicine), and the Norwegian Nobel Committee (Peace)—present recipients with a financial award, a diploma, and a gold medal. In 1901, the first Nobel Festivities & Prize Award Ceremonies were held. The place of the event was the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The Nobel Prize Diploma |
The Nobel Prize Medal |