The Nobel Prize PDF Handout 2022-2023

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international
awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.

The will of the Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel established the five Nobel prizes in 1895. The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901. In 1968, Sweden’s central bank Sveriges Riksbank established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Year with out Novel

Since the start, in 1901, there are some years when the Nobel Prizes have not been awarded. The total number of times are 49.
Physics: 1916, 1931, 1934, 1940, 1941, 1942
Chemistry: 1916, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1933,
1940, 1941, 1942
Medicine: 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1921,
1925, 1940, 1941, 1942

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Q1. Name the Category in which Linus
Pauling won the Nobel Prize Twice?
(A) Peace & Economics
(B) Physics & Chemistry
(C) Medicine
(D) Chemistry & Peace
(E) Economics
Ans.(D)

Q2. Which of the following Nobel Prize is not
presented by Sweden?
(A) Chemistry (B)Literature
(C) Physics (D) Medicine
(E) Peace
Ans.(E)