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Not until committee strongman C. W. Oseen died in 1944 could the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli – one of the giants of quantum mechanics – receive a prize.
Committee members occasionally confessed privately that often several candidates could be found who equally deserved a prize.
The confused situation faced by the Caroline Institute in 1950 reminds us that all prize committees face difficult choices: after four indecisive rounds of preliminary voting, three primary alternatives emerged, but the out-come was still uncertain.
The Nobel bylaws do not allow splitting a prize into more than three parts, thereby excluding discoveries that entailed work by more than three researchers, or omitting key persons who equally deserved to share in the honor.
One reason for the IPCC’s notable success has been the skilled guiding hand of the IPCC Chairman, Dr. R. K. Pachauri, who will accept the prize on the body’s behalf.
Russia has been vying for the West’s esteem for centuries, with approval by the French – a sought-after prize since the time of Peter the Great – coveted the most.
In 2000, Chinese novelist Gao Xingjian won China’s first Nobel prize for literature, followed a year later by the Indian diaspora writer V.S. Naipaul.
This version of feminism – the notion that women can claim equality and still have a valued role in the home, prize family above all, and view rights in the context of community and spirituality – seems like a much-needed corrective to some of Western feminism’s shortcomings.
When he was awarded the Nobel in 2010, the Chinese authorities barred his family from travelling to Oslo to accept the prize, placed his wife under house arrest, and allowed her little contact with her husband.
Since the creation of the Nobel prizes, more than 650 medals and diplomas have been given away in the original prize areas.
A prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel was established by the Bank of Sweden in 1968.
The thread running though all the stories of the prize winners is the concept of creativity: both individual creativity and creative environments.
But the Nobel Committee for Physics didn't agree, and for years no prize was awarded to Einstein!
Even citizens who prize accuracy have little way of knowing that they are sacrificing it when they switch channels from boring foxes to charismatic hedgehogs.
The prize for the most humorous masquerade must go to the Italians dressed as popes and cardinals.
Investors prize assets that are relatively uncorrelated, or even better, negatively correlated with the returns of the market as a whole.
Capturing the energy efficiency prize is critical both to climate and energy security – and it relies on a well-known set of policy signals and a proven set of technologies.
The patent system can be thought of as awarding a prize.
But the prize impedes the flow of knowledge, reduces the benefits derived from it, and distorts the economy.
These hard-right Republicans, too, prize “authenticity” – indeed, they prize it above anything else (hence the appeal of Donald Trump).
If benchmarks such as focus, mobilization, commitment, organization, and sheer impact are any guide, then the prize goes to the media’s baleful role in preparing the Rwandan massacre of 1994, and in directing, overseeing, and stoking the fervor of the génocidaires once the extermination of Tutsis began.
The $20 billion prize could be divided among the companies that first produce appropriate new diagnostic technologies, vaccines, or antibiotics to address the World Health Organization’s 12 “priority pathogens.”
When he was awarded the Nobel in 2010, the Chinese authorities not only prevented his family from traveling to Oslo to accept the prize; they placed his wife under house arrest.
NEW HAVEN – I am one of the winners of this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which makes me acutely aware of criticism of the prize by those who claim that economics – unlike chemistry, physics, or medicine, for which Nobel Prizes are also awarded – is not a science.
True, the chemistry prize this year looks a bit like an engineering prize, because it was given to three researchers – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel – “for the development of multiscale models of complex chemical systems” that underlie the computer programs that make nuclear magnetic resonance hardware work.
But the Nobel Foundation is forced to look at much more such practical, applied material when it considers the economics prize.
Why is it called a prize in “economic sciences,” rather than just “economics”?
British Prime Minister David Cameron has called the TTIP a “once-in-a-generation prize,” citing potential gains of £80 billion ($125.5 billion) each for the EU and the US and £85 billion for the rest of the world.
Most of these parties are led by political dynasties that prize loyalty over merit.
Taking away the prize of ministerial office from elected representatives might discourage wealth-maximizing politicians from entering politics.
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