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The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually for accomplishments in medicine, science and literature. They are certainly the ultimate accolades that can be conferred for the recognition of distinguished work. The Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel died in San Remo at the age of 63 in 1896 and left his fortune, then worth 33 million Swedish crowns, as a foundation for the prizes that bear his name (Karlsson, 1992, pp. 16–17). Nobel’s upbringing may have had something to do with his international outlook as he spent his childhood in St Petersburg, studied in France and was fluent in Russian, French, German, English and in Swedish. As a scientist his literary interests were well honed, and it is recorded that he was a great admirer of Byron and Shelley.
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© 1997 Edwin R. Nye and Mary E. Gibson
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Nye, E.R., Gibson, M.E. (1997). The Nobel Prize. In: Ronald Ross: Malariologist and Polymath. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377547_7
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