Dan Shechtman in the lab.
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Dan Shechtman in the lab.
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The Nobel Prize medal.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee received a total of 285 candidates for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. 89 of these are organisations.
Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony 2021 in the Oslo City Hall in Norway.
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Did you know that there is no public list of the current year’s nominees for the peace prize? The complete list of nominees of any year’s prizes is not disclosed for 50 years. The same goes for all the prize categories. Learn more about the nomination process in a this Q&A.
The nomination process for Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
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Nobel Minds 2023.
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Portrait of Narges Mohammadi.
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Chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel left 31 million SEK (today about 342 million dollars) to fund the Nobel Prizes.
When Alfred was five years old his father Immanuel, an inventor and builder, moved to St. Petersburg. Alfred joined him a few years later.
Based on Alfred’s work and patents a whole new industry developed. Within ten years, 16 explosives producing factories had been founded in 14 countries.
In his will of 27 November 1895, signed in Paris, Alfred Nobel specified that the bulk of his fortune should be used for prizes.
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The museum showcases the discoveries and creativity of the Nobel Prize laureates.
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The story of each peace laureate is told at the museum.
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