Nobel Prize

• It is the most coveted international award of the world.
• It was instituted by the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Bernard Nobel (1833-96).
• The award is given on Dec. 10, which is the death anniversary of its founder.
• Nobel made a trust from the money that he earned through the patent of his invention whose interest is used to give the money for the Nobel Prizes.
• Nobel Prize is given every year to those eminent persons who have made pioneering achievements in the field of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Peace, Literature and Economics.
• Apart from Economics, all other categories have been given since 1901. Economics Nobel Prize was instituted in 1967 and was first given in 1969.

Twice Recepients of Nobel Prize

Same Subjects		Different Subjects
John Bardeen John Bardeen Frederic Sanger Frederic Sanger	Physics (1956) Physics (1972) Chemistry (1958) Chemistry (1980)	Marie Curie Marie Curie Linus Pauling Linus Pauling	Physics (1903) Chemistry (1911) Chemistry (1954) Peace (1962)

•   The international Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Prize for peace three times : In 1917, 1944 and 1963.

Adjudicators
 

Physics and Chemistry	Swedish Academy of Science
Medicine	Stockholm Faculty of Medicine
Literature	Swedish Academy of Science
Peace	Panel of 5-parliamentarians of Norwegian Parliament
Economics	Bank of Sweden

Indian Nobel Prize Winners

Name	Field	Year
Rabindranath Tagore	Literature	1913
Dr. C.V.Raman	Physics	1930
Dr. Hargovind Khurana	Medicine	1968
Mother Teresa	Peace	1979
Dr. S. Chandrashekhar	Physics	1983
Dr. Amartya Sen	Economics	1999
V.S. Naipaul	Literature	2001
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Chemistry	2009