With the introduction of the Nobel Prizes, the global academic community began turning to Sweden year after year.
As the Nobel prizes enter their second century, their guardians have paid a fitting tribute to the first.
The U.S. is four for four, batting 1, 000 so far this year, with just the Nobel Prizes for Literature and Peace remaining.
The Nobel prizes have been given out annually since 1901, covering the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace.
The Nobel prizes have been given out annually since 1901, covering the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics.
The award was started in 1972 by global investor Sir John Templeton to remedy what he saw as an oversight by the Nobel Prizes, which do not honour the discipline of religion.
Ms. ARENS: Completely from the point of view of eminent Austrian authors, not surprised if one takes the last 20 years of the Nobel Prizes being responses to certain kinds of political correctness.
In 2001, America produced a third of the world's science and engineering articles in refereed journals, and in three of the past four years its academics received two-thirds of the Nobel prizes for science and economics.
The Ig Nobel Awards, an American parody of the prestigious Nobel Prizes, have been around since 1991 and recognise annually research and studies that on the surface seem humorous and perhaps trivial, but contain the essence of real discovery.
Yet economists, like rival witch doctors, get red in the face promoting diametrically opposed economic remedies, sometimes sharing Nobel Prizes in the same year for theories that directly contradict each other.
Relatively few people know of Alfred Nobel as the inventor of dynamite, but he will forever be known as the creator of the Nobel Peace Prize and Nobel prizes for literature, economics, medicine, and the sciences.
Note how abruptly scientific leaders can become followers: in the first decades of the 20th century, when Heidelberg and Freiburg were at the center of the academic universe, Germany won more Nobel prizes than any other country: 38 between 1901 and 1931, outpacing the U.S. by a factor of two and a half.
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As with so many Nobel Prizes, the committee probably acted too hastily.
The United States has won more Nobel prizes for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and economics since World War II than any other country, by a wide margin (it has been less dominant in literature and peace, two awards that are much more broadly distributed among nations).
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Full steam ahead to nobel prizes, reactors on the grid in 10 years, manna from heaven and peace on earth!
Since the Nobel Prize in economics was established, seven prizes have been awarded to economists who cast serious doubt on Keynesian short-run stabilization.
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Two Nobel Prizes were awarded for discoveries in the field just this past year.
If there were Nobel prizes for communications, he would be the first recipient.
According to my count, we now have eight Nobel Prizes to economists who cast doubt on the Keynesian model, and zero to economists for advancing the Keynesian agenda.
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The boffins in the boardrooms may not like it, but in the future they will have to spend more time worrying about the bits of their business that don't win Nobel prizes.
Schally of the Veterans Administration hospital in New Orleans, went on to win Nobel prizes in 1977 for that research.
While most Nobel prizes are awarded by committees based in Sweden, the Peace Prize is determined by a five-member panel appointed by the Norwegian parliament.
Britain won 11 Nobel prizes in chemistry, physics, physiology and medicine in the 1960s, 13 in the 1970s, four in the 1980s and two in the 1990s.
It is given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which since 1901 has been awarding Nobel Prizes for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace.
Fundamental breakthroughs generate headlines and win Nobel prizes but, as Ralph Gomory points out, it is the more mundane task of turning breakthroughs into affordable products that matters economically.
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Five have gone on to win Nobel prizes, but no one really knows whether those juicy rewards really advanced the sum total of human knowledge.
The economics underlying derivative products are so novel and significant that four of their innovators have won Nobel prizes.
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