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Washington, D.C.'s, Lincoln Memorial 28 August, 1963. US Government Photo, via Wikimedia Commons
On 28 August 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. expressed his immortal words.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his nonviolent campaign against racism. Martin Luther King dreamt that all inhabitants of the United States would be judged by their personal qualities and not by the color of their skin.
Watch Martin Luther King receive his Nobel Peace Prize
A Laureate is a person honored for high achievement in a particular field. A Nobel Laureate is someone who is awarded the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 96 times to 129 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015, of them 103 individuals and 26 organizations.
List of all Nobel Peace Prizes
The date and time for the announcements of the recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel are now set.
PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE - Monday 3 October, 11:30 a.m. at the earliest
PHYSICS - Tuesday 4 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest
CHEMISTRY - Wednesday 5 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest
PEACE - Friday 7 October, 11:00 a.m.
ECONOMIC SCIENCES - Monday 10 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest
LITERATURE - The date will be set later.
Times listed are local time in Sweden (CET).
A Laureate is a person honoured for high achievement in a particular field. A Nobel Laureate is someone who is awarded the Nobel Prize.
The word "laureate" refers to being signified by the laurel wreath. In ancient Greece, laurel wreaths were awarded to victors as a sign of honour.
More Nobel Prize facts2016 Medicine Prize will be announced in:
38 days
Monday 3 October, 11:30 a.m. at the earliest
10 persons were awarded in 2015, two women, eight men; and one organization.
Between 1901 and 2015, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 573 times to 900 people and organizations.
The youngest Nobel Laureate ever is 17-year old Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai.
List of all Nobel Laureates by age
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 26 times to organizations.
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Marie Curie discovered the elements radium and polonium. She is the only woman to have been awarded two prizes, one in Physics and one in Chemistry.
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Fairly unknown in Europe at the time, Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore attracted western readers with his aura of mysticism.
Tagore and his India
Although famed for his theory of general relativity, it was his law about light that gave Albert Einstein the Nobel Prize in Physics 95 years ago.
Albert Einstein's biography
Human blood groups were discovered in 1901 by Karl Landsteiner, later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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"I swore never to be silent". Listen to Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel's speech at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony.
Watch Mother Teresa delivering her acceptance speech after being awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
This documentary recognises four of the 2012 Nobel Laureates whose discoveries has have led to huge leaps forward in the understanding of medical research.
In this interview, John Nash, 1994 Laureate in Economic Sciences, talks about the impact the Prize had on his life, his talent for mathematics as a child, and shares his thoughts about the movie on his life, A Beautiful Mind.
Literary mastery, pioneering science, life-saving discoveries and actions for peace and human rights – achievements of women around the world awarded the Nobel Prize.
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Get to know the Nobel Laureates a bit better. Find your favourite among the episodes!
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No person can nominate herself/himself for a Nobel Prize. But who may submit a candidate?
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The Nobel Foundation’s capital has grown by one billion Swedish kronor since 2011.
The financial management of the Nobel Foundation
Jonas Kaufmann. Photo © Gregor Hohenberg/Sony Music.
Jonas Kaufmann, "the most important versatile tenor of his generation", will perform at the Nobel Prize Concert in Stockholm, Sweden, on 8 December 2016. Gianandrea Noseda, newly appointed music director at the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, USA, will lead the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Tickets are on sale at Konserthuset.se.
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The Nobel Prize Concert is a classical music concert of the highest international standard, arranged every year by Nobel Media in cooperation with the Stockholm Concert Hall, and held in honour of the current year's Nobel Laureates. The concert is held on 8 December as part of the official Nobel Week program of activities.
Enjoy previous concerts featuring Andris Nelsons, Riccardo Muti and others
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Nobel Center is to be built on Blasieholmen, on a wonderful site along Stockholm's central waterfront. Through its broad public activities, the Nobel Center will invite people into the Nobel Prize’s unique world of natural sciences, humanities and peace efforts and become a meeting place that inspires curiosity and creativity.
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On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his third and last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. When it was opened and read after his death, the will caused a lot of controversy both in Sweden and internationally, as Alfred Nobel had left much of his wealth for the establishment of a prize.
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Ahmed Zewail passed away on 2 August at age 70. He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering investigation of fundamental chemical reactions, using ultra-short laser flashes, on the time scale on which the reactions actually occur.
Biography
Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust survivor, passed away on 2 July at age 87. Elie Wiesel saw the struggle against indifference as a struggle for peace. In his words: "The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference".
Biography
Sir Harold Kroto was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of carbon atoms bound in the form of a ball - fullerenes. He passed away on 30 April, 76 years old.
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Walter Kohn passed away on 21 April, 93 years old. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of the density-functional theory. This presented new opportunities for calculations involving chemical structures and reactions.
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