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Title: #History: First Nobel Prizes Awarded (1901)
Post by: TFD on Dec 10, 2014, 07:31 AM
The Nobel Prizes, named after Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, are awarded annually to those who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and—since 1969—economic sciences. Nobel is said to have been inspired to create the prizes after reading his own prematurely published obituary, which condemned his invention of dynamite and referred to him as "the merchant of death." What family has amassed the most Nobel Prizes? Discuss (http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst70433_First-Nobel-Prizes-Awarded--1901-.aspx)