From the Stockholm ‘Konserthuset’, where the new winners of the Nobel Prizes are honoured every year, it is not far to the Nobel Prize Museum, which is dedicated to all those who have been honoured before. In addition to the Nobel Prize and the numerous previous winners, the museum’s exhibitions also focus on Alfred Nobel, the founder of this prize.
Nobel, the son of an industrialist, was an entrepreneur and chemist – among other things, he invented dynamite. In his will, the childless Nobel stipulated that the majority of his fortune should serve as an endowment fund for a foundation. The interest from this fund was to be used to annually honour people who had made a particularly valuable contribution to humanity.
Five years after his death, on 10 December 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Nobel also specified in his will the institutions that were to be responsible for awarding the prizes.
Website of the Nobel Prize Museum: https://nobelprizemuseum.se/en/
Photo: main entrance of the museum. Credits: Nobel Media. Alexander Mahmoud.
