THE NOBEL PRIZES

Barrie Peake

ALFRED NOBEL (1833 – 1896)

Born in

Stockholm,

Sweden

Starts

experiments

with

nitroglycerin

Youngest

brother

killed by

nitroglycerin

Formulates

dynamite

mixture

Dies in San

Remo, Italy

Writes his

will

including

the Nobel

prizes

1833

1862

1864

1867

1895

1896

AWARDS

Beginning in 1901 , prizes have been given every year to

outstanding contributions to knowledge in the fields of

• Physics

• Chemistry

• Physiology / Medicine

• Literature

• Peace

• Economics (1966 >)

SELECTION PROCESS

• Committees for each of the 6 prizes send out invitations to

members of academies, senior university staff, prominent

scientists asking them to submit names of potential prize

winners in the different fields

• on the same day that the final vote is taken, the prize

winner(s) is announced

THE PRIZE

Each recipient, or laureate, receives a

• gold medal

• diploma

• a sum of money worth US $1.2 million @2012

NOBEL PRIZE WEEK

• Nobel Lecture

• Nobel Award Ceremony held every Dec. 10 anniversary of

Alfred Nobel’s death) in Stockholm

Nobel banquet

KIWI NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

Ernest Rutherford

1871-1937

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908

‘Disintegration of the elements and

the chemistry of radioactive

substances ‘

Alan MacDiarmid

1927-2007

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000

‘Discovery and development of

conductive polymers’

KIWI NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

Maurice Wilkins

1916- 2014

Nobel Prize in Physiology 1962

“for their discoveries concerning the

molecular structure of nucleic acids and

its significance for information transfer in

living material