Informative Essay: The Nobel Prize In The World

The beginning of October means Nobel Prize time. That's when committees in Stockholm and Oslo announce the winners of what many consider the most prestigious awards in the world. This year's Nobel season kicked off Oct. 5 with the medicine award being announced for the 106th time. The prize in medicine was awarded jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu. Daily announcements follow this week with physics on Oct. 6 being awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced on Oct. 7 and was awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar. The prize for literature was announced on Oct. 8 and awarded to Svetlana Alexievich.

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was announced today, Oct. 9 and the prize was awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet. Finally,
They include university professors, lawmakers, previous Nobel laureates and the committee members themselves. The nominations are kept secret for 50 years. Still, those who submit them sometimes announce their suggestions publicly. That is particularly true for the Nobel Peace Prize. That's how we know that German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Pope Francis, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi are among this year's 273 nominees. The Nobel Peace Prize is presented in Norway. The other awards are handed out in Sweden. That's how Alfred Nobel wanted it. His exact reasons are unclear. But during his lifetime, Sweden and Norway were joined in a union, which was dissolved in 1905. Sometimes relations have been tense between the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, which manages the prize money, and the fiercely independent peace prize committee in Oslo. Scientists often have to wait decades to have their work recognized by the Nobel judges, who want to make sure that any breakthrough withstands the test of