THE NOBEL PRIZE
 

Alfred Bernhard Nobel died and left a will in which he arranged for the annual Nobel Prize.

If you are awarded the Nobel Prize you will get a medal, a diploma, and some cash. What kind of cash are we talking about?

Ten million Swedish krona. In 2010 that's roughly 1,380,000 USD, or 901,398 British Pounds, or 1,038,000 Euros.

There are six available Nobel Prize categories:

The Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Prize in Economics

Among many others, the recipients were:

Physics 1901 - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Physics 1918 - Max Planck
Physics 1921 - Albert Einstein
Physics 1922 - Niels Bohr

Literature 1925 - George Bernard Shaw
Literature 1949 - William Faulkner
Literature 1950 - Bertrand Russell
Literature 1954 - Ernest Hemingway
Literature 1965 - Jean-Paul Sartre

Peace 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt
Peace 1919 - Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Peace 1931 - Jane Addams
Peace 1953 - George C. Marshall
Peace 1964 - Martin Luther King Jr.
Peace 1979 - Mother Teresa
Peace 1986 - Elie Wiesel
Peace 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev
Peace 1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
Peace 1993 - Nelson Mandela
Peace 2009 - Barack Obama