7 hours agoThe writer who rejected Nobel Prize money
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)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 inventing dynamite, but only a human-shaped devil could have gone into mind to invent the Nobel Prize”. Nobel was founded in 1895 by [...]
He had said: “I could forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a human-shaped devil could have gone into mind to invent the Nobel Prize”.
Nobel 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 be remembered when he died, decided to change the will.
Nobel was personally interested in experimental physiology or medicine, and in his will he requested that his wealth be created along with the prices for achievements in physics, Kim, Literature, and Peace, a price for medicine. (The Price for Economics was established late, in 1969, by Alfred Nobel's Swedish Academy of Sciences in honour, even because it is awarded on the same day as five Nobel Prizes).
