Nobel Prize Winners
Background
The Nobel Prize, established by the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895, is an internationally recognized set of annual awards presented in six categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, dedicated the bulk of his significant fortune to the creation of a fund whose income would be distributed annually as prizes to those who, during the preceding year, “shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.”
Our Research Questions
- How does a Nobel Prize winner’s origin country impact their driving motivation behind their research?
- What factors are involved culturally, educationally, and economically?
Timeline of Noble Prize Winners
“One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search of similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.”
— Alfred Nobel
