List of First Nobel Prize Winners

Dec 2020|🟢Current|1 min read|5 entries

Key Takeaway

The Nobel Prize was instituted under the will of the Swedish chemist, engineer, and inventor,Alfred Nobelin the year1895.

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List of First Nobel Prize Winners

The Nobel Prize was instituted under the will of the Swedish chemist, engineer, and inventor,Alfred Nobelin the year1895. In accordance with his will, a5 member Norwegian Nobel Committeeappointed by the Norwegian Parliament selects the recipients.

The very first Nobel Prize award ceremony was held on10 December 1901at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music at Nybroviken, five years after the death of Alfred Nobel.

The first Nobel peace prize was presented atStorting, the parliament of Norway. Then the venue was shifted to the Norwegian Nobel Institute where it continued until 1946, then moved to the Oslo City Hall (1990–2019).

The2020 prizewill be awarded in the Atrium of theUniversity of Oslowhich was also a venue from 1947 to 1989.

First Recipients of Nobel Prizes in 1901 are as follows(5)

First recipient of Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Ragnar Frisch & Jan Tinbergen (1969)
TheOrganization which received the Nobel Prize for the first time is theInstitut de Droit International (Institute of International Law)in 1904.📝 SideNotes- :Henry Dunant
Founder of the Red Cross
Red Cross won 3 Nobel Peace Prizes.Frédéric Passy
Founder of the Peace League
Sveriges Riksbank
Central Bank of Sweden
Institut de Droit International was founded in
Ghent, Belgium