Alfred Nobel: The author of the Nobel Prize
Each year, the Nobel Prize is awarded for an unprecedented contribution to science, literature, peace, economy, etc. Those who keep this in mind, are naturally looking forward to who is going to be one of the honors of the year.
Today, you have some amazing information about your Nobel Prize and winners:
Three Nobel laureates learned about their Nobel Prize while in prison. Each of them received the Nobel Prize for peace.
Three of them are German journalist Karl von Osetsky (1935), Burmese political personality Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) and Chinese human rights activist Leo Xiaobo (2010).
In 1988, Nobel laureate Leon Ledermen sold his Nobel Prize in Physics for the purpose of providing medical treatment in 2015. He jointly invented Muun neutrino.
It was not known who bought his medal, but he knew how often he had bought this medal. Its value was 7 million 65 thousand US dollars.
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov spent $ 4.7 billion in the purchase of a biologist James Watson's medal.
James Watson explores how the DNA of the spiral shape (double helix) is formed. But later Usmanov returned James's medal and did not take his money. He said that he would be most happy if he spent the money on research.
In 2011, Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt became very excited to find out his gold medal from checking the airport. The Padma was awarded to prove the existence of Brian Dark Energy. He said, "If you are not as big a medal, you do not have to be saved in the airport."
Adolf Hitler imposed a ban on the award of three German Nobel Laureates. They are - Richard Kune (chemistry), Adolf Boutent (chemistry) and Gerhard Demac (in medical science).
Later they accepted their medal but they did not get the money they had received.
Source: Scientific American
