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Nobel Prize

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Fri Apr 14, 2023 3:28 am

What do you know about the Nobel prize?
Do you know what the Nobel prize categories are?
Can you name 5 or 10 recipients?
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Re: Nobel Prize

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Post by Booyakasha » Fri Apr 14, 2023 6:32 am

I know it was established by Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, as a way of...trying to give back to the world for how rich it had made him? Or to atone for all the deaths dynamite had caused, maybe? I don't remember that part. The former sounds a little too Carnegie-------the latter, a little too Winchester.

I can name a few Nobel guys. Mostly Peace Prize winners. Obama was in there, and the Dalai Lama. Gorbachev. Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese democracy advocate who died in prison a few years back. I don't know---------Mandela, I assume? And then I seem to recall Gabriel Garcia Marquez had one for Literature, but I might be mistaken.
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Re: Nobel Prize

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:48 pm

I only know one off the top of my head, Obama. They must not be worth much after that, just giving them away.

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Re: Nobel Prize

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Post by CaptHayfever » Mon Apr 17, 2023 2:22 am

The categories are physics, chemistry, literature, physiology/medicine, economics, & peace.
Marie & Pierre Curie and Linus Pauling technically make 5 recipients; Marie & Linus each won in 2 different fields.

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