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Parent topics
- Award [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred Nobel [r]: (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden – December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) A Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. [e]
Subtopics
- Nobel Prize in Physics [r]: The most highly regarded award in the field of physics; named after Alfred Nobel who instituted it. [e]
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry [r]: The most highly regarded award in the field of chemistry; named after Alfred Nobel who instituted it. [e]
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [r]: Award conferred once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institute, for physiology or medicine, since 1901. [e]
- Nobel Prize in Literature [r]: The most highly regarded award in the field of literature; named after Alfred Nobel who instituted it. [e]
- Nobel Prize in Economics [r]: Common name for the most highly regarded award in the field of economics; instituted 1968 in memory of Alfred Nobel. [e]
- Nobel Peace Prize [r]: One of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel, awarded for fraternity between nations, and promotion of peace. [e]
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Related awards
- the "Alternative Nobel Prize": Right Livelihood Award [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fields medal [r]: The most prestigious award in mathematics, comparable to the Nobel prize. [e]
- Ig Nobel Prize [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lasker Awards [r]: A set of awards in medicine from the U.S. Lasker Foundation, often covering clinical medicine and short-term developments not the focus of the Nobel Committee, although many Lasker recipients have subsequently received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [e]
- Turing Award [r]: Prestigious award in computer science, presented by the Association for Computing Machinery [e]
Nobel institutions
- Nobel Library [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nobel Museum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nobel Peace Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
Nobel Prize fields
- Peace [r]: The absence of armed conflict between groups of people. [e]
- Literature [r]: The profession of “letters” (from Latin litteras), and written texts considered as aesthetic and expressive objects. [e]
- Economics [r]: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [e]
- Physics [r]: The study of forces and energies in space and time. [e]
- Chemistry [r]: The science of matter, or of the electrical or electrostatical interactions of matter. [e]
- Physiology [r]: The study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of tissues and how they interact. [e]
- Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
