2. Physics
Chemistry
Literature
Peace
Physiology or Medicine
Economic Sciences
By Presented Swedish Academy
4. The Nobel brothers Robert, Alfred, Ludvig and baby
Emil. This photo is from St. Petersburg, around 1843.
5. This house on 24
Petrogradskaya
Embankment was
where the Nobel
family lived until
1859.
The Brothers Nobel
(Branobel) factory, office
and residence located
near the Samson quay in
St. Petersburg.
6. Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
was a swedish chemist,
engineer, innovator.
Nobel held 350 different
patents, dynamite being
the most famous
7. atonement
Nobel did not want to
be known as a man who
had developed the most
destructive weapon that
the world had ever seen
but rather as a man who
loved literature and
poetry and the creation
of these prizes was
ultimately his life’s
dream.
8. Alfred Nobel's will stated that 94% of his total
assets should be used to establish the Nobel
Prizes.
9. The Nobel Prize is
an international
award administered
by the Nobel
Foundation in
Sweden.
Peace prize is
award in Oslo
The other in
Stockgolm
10. Every year since
1901 the Nobel Prize
has been awarded for
achievements in
physics, chemistry,
physiology or
medicine, literature
and for peace except
mathematics .
11. Remarkable Nobel Peace Prize’s
Winners
Henry Dunant is a
Swiss philosopher and
the founder of
the International Red
Cross. He received the
first Nobel Peace Prize
in 1901 for
humanitarian work and
peace movement.
12. Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa, the
founder of the
Missionaries of Charity
won the 1979 prize for
her work caring for the
poor in the slums of
Calcutta
13. Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King - U.S
clergyman and leader of
"Southern Christian
Leadership Conference" –
was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize when he was at
the age of 35. The youngest
male recipient of the award
then announced that he
would turn over $54,123 to
the furtherance of the civil
rights movement.
14. Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev was
awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1990
for "his leading role in
the peace process
which today
characterises
important parts of the
international
community".
15. Jimmy Carter
Former U.S
president Jimmy
Carter received the prize in
2002 in the Oslo City Hall.
He has been working hard
to “find peaceful solutions
to international conflicts,
promote economic and
social development and
advance democracy and
human rights”
16. Wangari Maathai
Kenyan ecologist
Wangari Maathai won
the Nobel Peace Prize
“for her contribution to
sustainable
development,
democracy and peace”
17. Rajendra Pachauri and Al Gore
Nobel Peace Prize 2007
was jointly awarded to
the former U.S vice
president and the UN's
top climate pane. Their
efforts notably help to
combat global warming.
18. The Nobel Peace Prize 2009
Nobel Peace Prize
2009 was awarded to
Barack H.
Obama "for his
extraordinary efforts
to strengthen
international
diplomacy and
cooperation between
peoples".
19. 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
U.S. President Barack
Obama receiving the
2009 Nobel Peace Prize
20. Multiple laureates
. Marie Skłodowska-Curie received
the Physics Prize in 1903 for the
discovery of radioactivity
and the Chemistry Prize
in 1911 for the isolation
of pure radium
21. In December 1903
the Royal Swedish
Academy of
Sciences awarded Pierre
Curie, Marie Curie and
Henri Becquerel the Nobel
Prize in Physics, "in
recognition of the
extraordinary services
they have rendered by
their joint researches on
the radiation phenomena
discovered by Professor
Henri Becquere
22. Marie Skłodowska-Curie
She was the first
woman to win a
Nobel Prize, the
only woman to win
in two fields, and
the only person to
win in multiple
sciences
23. Nobel prize for literature
2012
Mo Yan 1955 China
Residence at the time
of the award: China
Prize motivation: "who
with hallucinatory
realism merges folk
tales, history and the
contemporary"
25. Yan is known for his
depiction of Chinese rural
life, particularly its women.
His best known works
include Frog, Big Breasts
and Wide Hips,Red
Sorghum (which adapted
into a 1987 film) and Life
and Death Are Wearing Me
Out. Yan is the first Chinese
citizen to win the
prestigious prize but not the
first Chinese writer