Nobel Prize
award
- Key People:
- Alfred Nobel
- George E. Smith
- Notable Honorees:
- Barack Obama
- Winston Churchill
- Albert Einstein
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Recent News
July 22, 2024, 6:21 AM ET (ABC News (U.S.))
Nobel laureates call on Belarus' leader to release all political prisoners
July 18, 2024, 11:36 PM ET (Straits Times)
UN experts urge Belarus to free Nobel winner Bialiatski from prison
July 15, 2024, 9:40 AM ET (New York Times)
Bengt Samuelsson, Biochemist and Nobel Laureate, Is Dead at 90
July 14, 2024, 12:42 AM ET (The Hindu)
Nobel laureate supports India’s pursuit of a neutrino lab
July 12, 2024, 1:19 PM ET (CBC)
Western University reconsiders ties with Nobel laureate-writer Alice Munro after daughter's disclosure
Nobel Prize, any of the prizes (five in number until 1969, when a sixth was added) that are awarded annually from a fund bequeathed for that purpose by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel. The Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement in the world. To browse Nobel Prize winners alphabetically, chronologically, and by prize, see below. In the will he drafted in 1895, Nobel instructed that most of his fortune be set aside as a fund for the awarding of five annual prizes “to those who, during the preceding year, shall ...(100 of 1447 words)