The writer who rejected Nobel Prize money

Writer George Bernard Shaw on November 18, 1926, refused to accept the Nobel Prize money he had won.

He had said: “I could forgive Alfred Nobel for the invention of dynamite, but only a human-shaped devil could have gone into mind to invent the” Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Prize was founded in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel (1833- 1896), author of about 350 inventions, but most famous for the invention of dynamite. In 1888, Alfred Nobel was surprised to read his own necrology, entitled “, the death merchant”, in a French newspaper.

In fact, his brother Ludwig had died, but Alfred, dissatisfied with the contents of the scripture and concerned about how he would remember when he died, decided to change the will.

Nobel was personally interested in experimental physiology, or medicine, and in his will he requested that a price for medicine be created along with his wealth. (The award for Economics was established late, in 1969, by the Swedish Academy of Sciences in honour of Alfred Nobel's and is called Nobel Prize, even because it is awarded on the same day as five Nobel Prizes).