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Article: Winning the Nobel.(Opinion & Editorial)
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- November 24, 2002
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(Editor's note: Every year, on December 10, outstanding world citizens are given recognition via the Nobel Prizes, now worth about $1.33 million in each category.)
NEXT month (December 10), former President Jimmy Carter will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, but other awards are given in Stockholm - prizes in medicine, chemistry, physics, literature and economic sciences. The King of Sweden gives the award.
The world's most prestigious prize a man of known achievement can earn is the Nobel Prize, first awarded in 1901. Each prize varies depending on the interest earned by the bequest of $9.2 million left by Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896) ...