Awards: 573 Prizes to 900 Laureates
Prize categories: 6
Awarded women: 48
Awarded organizations: 23
Multiple Nobel Laureates: 6
Average age of a Laureate: 59
Age of youngest Laureate: 17
Age of oldest Laureate: 90
Between 1901 and 2015, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 573 times to 900 people and organizations. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, and based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and entrepreneur. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Each Prize consists of a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award.
A person or organization awarded the Nobel Prize is called Nobel Laureate. The word "laureate" refers to being signified by the laurel wreath. In ancient Greece, laurel wreaths were awarded to victors as a sign of honor.
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109 Nobel Prizes to 201 Laureates between 1901 and 2015.
All Nobel Prizes and Physics Laureates
107 Nobel Prizes to 172 Laureates between 1901 and 2015.
All Nobel Prizes and Chemistry Laureates
106 Nobel Prizes to 210 Laureates between 1901 and 2015.
All Nobel Prizes and Medicine Laureates
108 Nobel Prizes to 112 Laureates between 1901 and 2015.
All Nobel Prizes and Literature Laureates
96 Nobel Prizes to 129 Laureates between 1901 and 2015.
All Nobel Peace Prizes and Laureates
47 Prizes to 76 Laureates between 1969 and 2015.
All Prizes and Laureates in Economic Sciences
10 persons were awarded 2015, two women, eight men; and one organization. There are now two new Nobel Laureates in Physics, three in Chemistry, three in Physiology or Medicine, one in Literature, one in Peace and one Laureate in Economic Sciences. See a short presentation of them here.
List of 2015 Nobel Laureates
2015 Nobel Laureates Youyou Tu (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) and Svetlana Alexievich (awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature), increased the list of awarded women to 48 in total.
All Nobel Prize awarded women
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Each Nobel Diploma is a unique work of art, created by foremost Swedish and Norwegian artists and calligraphers.
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The Nobel medals show the image of Alfred Nobel on the face. The image on the reverse varies according to the institution awarding the prize.
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The Nobel Prize amount for 2015 was set at SEK 8.0 million per full Nobel Prize. Until 1968, in principle more than three persons could share a Nobel Prize, but this never happened in practice.
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