Answers of Quiz 1849 (Alfred Nobel and Nobel Prize)

1. On 21 October 1833 in Sweden
2. Chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer & inventor
3. Dynamite
4. On 10 December 1896
5. Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish & Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural & scientific advances.
6. In 1901
7. On 10 December every year
8. In 6 fields; Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, Economic Science
9. In 1969
10. Each recipient, or laureate, receives a gold medal, a diploma & a sum of money which is decided by the Nobel Foundation.
11. In Sweden
12. In Norway
13. The Nobel Foundation was founded as a private organisation on 29 June 1900 specifically to manage the finances & administration of the Nobel Prizes. It is based on Nobel's last will & testament.
14. Wilhelm Rontgen for discovery of X-rays in Physics, Jacobus van't Hoff for chemical thermodynamics in Chemistry, Sully Prudhomme in Literature, Emil von Behring in Medicine, Jean Henri Dunant for founding International Red Cross Movement in Peace & Jan Tinbergen & Ragnar Frisch in Economics for having developed & applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes.
15. US 270 laureates
16. 13 times;
i. Anwar al-Sadat (Egyptian) in Peace in 1978
ii. Dr. Abdus Salam (Pakistani) in Physics in 1979
iii. Naguib Mahfouz (Egyptian) in Literature in 1988
iv. Yasser Arafat (Palestinian) in Peace in 1994
v. Ahmed Zewail (Egyptian) in Chemistry in 1999
vi. Shirin Ebadi (Iranian) in Peace in 2003
vii. Mohamed El Baradei (Egyptian) in Peace in 2005
viii. Muhammad Yunus (Bangladeshi) in Peace in 2006
ix. Orhan Pamuk (Turkish) in Literature in 2006
x. Tawakel Karman (Yemeni) in Peace in 2011
xi. Malala Yousafzai (Pakistani) in Peace in 2014
xii. Tunisian National Dialogue Quarter in Peace in 2015
xiii. Aziz Sancar (Turkish) in Chemistry in 2015
17. Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat in 1978
18. 2 persons; Dr. Abdus Salam & Malala Yousufzai
19. 881 people
20. 24 organizations
21. 832 males
22. 49 females
23. Marie Curie in Physics in 1903
24. Le Duc Tho (Vietnamese) in Peace in 1973
25. Marie Curie in Physics & Chemistry
26. 19 times
27. Nomination forms are sent by the Nobel Committee to about 3000 individuals usually in September the year before the prizes are awarded. The deadline for the return of the nomination forms is 31 January of the year of the award.
28. The Nobel Committee asks experts to meet to choose the laureate in each field by a majority vote.

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