If due to circumstances beyond Turner control the stated prize cannot be provided, Turner reserves the right to award a substitute prize of equal value.
Twice in recent memory, the Chopin Competition has declined to award a first prize, saying no one played well enough.
The two went on to win a Cambridge entrepreneurism award, a Cambridge angel prize, and a British government grant.
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The award carries a cash prize of USD 8, 000 and will be handed out to the Nabana community through Change Initiatives, a Kolkata-based NGO which is implementing the UNESCO Nabanna project in the Indian state of West Bengal.
The judges decided not to award a third-place prize, concluding that none of the eight other finalists met that criteria after the teams put their entries through real-world testing.
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To the best of my knowledge, there is (only) one individual who has not only won an Ig Nobel Award, but also a Nobel Prize.
Additionally, the FTC handed out a non-monetary prize to Google for a robo challenge achievement award.
"This is almost turning the Nobel Peace Prize into a bogus award, " he said.
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Unless it were a major award, like the Nobel Peace Prize, I don't think it's news.
Significant, in this light, is the recent award by Egypt's culture ministry of a prize to one of the country's most combative secularist writers, Sayed al-Qimani.
The Prize consists of a monetary award and a diploma.
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Katerva, a new nonprofit set up to recognize and support stand-out sustainability efforts around the world, has just announced the winner of an award competition it hopes will be like a Nobel prize in the broad and somewhat amorphous field of sustainability: Sanergy, a company that builds low-cost toilets in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya and converts the waste into fuel and fertilizer.
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There was also a special prize for Channel 4 film boss Tessa Ross, who received a lifetime achievement award.
"The award of the Nobel Prize recognizes the discovery of a fundamental mechanism in the cell, a discovery that has stimulated the development of new therapeutic strategies, " the committee said in a news release.
In April 2012, it won a prestigious sustainable tourism prize from the World Travel and Tourism Councils, following a similar Best Destination award from Responsible Travel in 2011.
According to Jeff Mulligan, a judge of the Babson College Student Business of the Year Award, (and himself a 1983 winner of the prize), Xie dazzled the judges.
He's won the prestigious Macarthur Genius Grant and this year, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
The decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union was apparently a unanimous one by the five-member Nobel panel - but a major surprise.
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Formerly known as the Literature Prize, the award was first announced in 2011 amidst a row in literary circles about the decision by Man Booker judges that year to focus on "readability".
In a few hours, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will award its famed Peace Prize.
Sri Lanka had just won a match the night before the award ceremony so Shehan was convinced the prize was not to be his.
Award-winning author Hilary Mantel has begun writing a sequel to her 2009 Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall.
In the evening's first award, Christoph Waltz took home the supporting actor prize for his role as a bounty hunter in Weinstein Co.
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In 1988, Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar hailed the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.N. peacekeeping forces as a tribute to idealism, valor and sacrifice.
The 475 members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation - a collection of movie fans and industry professionals - also found a prize for teenage heart-throb Leonard DicCaprio.
Each Nobel prize includes a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award.
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Many winners of the Pritzker Prize the most prestigious award in architecture have designed a number of these new theaters, receiving accolades for their work.
When the Nobel committee was not willing to follow his suggestion of the creation of a new Nobel Prize for Agriculture, Dr. Borlaug created his own award.
One act is already certain of a prize - the Eurythmics will receive an Outstanding Contribution to the Music Industry award.
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