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- Key People:
- Alfred Nobel
- George E. Smith
- Related Topics:
- 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winners
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Notable Honorees:
- Barack Obama
- Winston Churchill
- Albert Einstein
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nobel Prize, any of the prizes (five in number until 1969, when a sixth was added) that are awarded annually from a fund bequeathed for that purpose by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel. The Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement in the world. To browse Nobel Prize winners alphabetically, chronologically, and by prize, see below. In the will he drafted in 1895, Nobel instructed that most of his fortune be set aside as a fund for the awarding of five annual prizes “to those who, during the preceding year, shall ...(100 of 1447 words)