Partners in science Drs. Carl and Gerty Cori in their laboratory at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, 1947. “One without the other would not have gone as far as in combination” Gerty and Carl Cori went through medical school together, graduated, married, and emigrated from Vienna to Buffalo, sensing the…

by Øivind Stenersen* From the very beginning the Norwegian Nobel Committee chose to define humanitarian efforts as an essential part of promoting “fraternity among nations”. In awarding half of the 1901 Peace Prize to the founder of the Red Cross, , the committee focused on a basic aspect of the word “humanitarian”: helping victims of…

by Øyvind Tønnesson Nobelprize.org Peace Editor, 1998-2000 A committee of five Since the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901, the Peace Prize has, in accordance with Alfred Nobel’s , been awarded by a committee of five, appointed by the Storting (the Norwegian Parliamant), but without the committee being formally responsible to the Storting. According…

Matthews Hall, Harvard University. This list shows the universities, research institutions or companies Nobel Prize laureates were affiliated with at the time of the Nobel Prize announcement. (This page takes some seconds to load.)

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded **num_organization_prize_pea** times to organisations between 1901 and **last_awarded_year_pea**. **num_organization_pea** individual organisations have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, as UNHCR, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has received the Nobel Peace Prize twice, in 1954 and 1981, and the work of Comité international de…

This list shows the Nobel Prize laureates by age at the year of the award.

by Erik B. Karlsson What is physics? Physics is considered to be the most basic of the natural sciences. It deals with the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions as well as the nature of atoms and the build-up of molecules and condensed matter. It tries to give unified descriptions of the behavior of…

by Jan Lindsten and Nils Ringertz* Introduction “…The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: The capital shall be invested by my executors in safe securities and shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during…

Alfred Nobel and his will. Prizes for “the greatest benefit to humankind” Alfred Nobel’s interest in science, culture and society is evident in his will. In the third and last will that he signed in Paris on 27 November 1895, he declared that the major portion of his fortune should go toward prizes in physics,…

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded **num_prize_phy** times to **num_award_phy** Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and **last_awarded_year_phy**. John Bardeen is the only laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. This means that a total of **num_laureate_phy** individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Click…