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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony 2021. Maria Ressa delivers her Nobel lecture.
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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony 2021. Maria Ressa delivers her Nobel lecture.
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Dmitry Muratov delivers his Nobel Prize lecture.
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A team of female Yazidi deminers in Iraq attempting to clear their land of mines left behind by ISIS. A team of scientists on an extraordinary mission in Mozambique to help better our understanding of climate change. A man building prosthetic legs to help victims of war walk again in South Sudan … All are inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
The Nobel Prize medal.
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Portrait of Narges Mohammadi.
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Nobel Minds 2023.
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Chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel left 31 million SEK (today about 342 million dollars) to fund the Nobel Prizes.
When Alfred was five years old his father Immanuel, an inventor and builder, moved to St. Petersburg. Alfred joined him a few years later.
Based on Alfred’s work and patents a whole new industry developed. Within ten years, 16 explosives producing factories had been founded in 14 countries.
In his will of 27 November 1895, signed in Paris, Alfred Nobel specified that the bulk of his fortune should be used for prizes.
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The museum showcases the discoveries and creativity of the Nobel Prize laureates.
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The story of each peace laureate is told at the museum.
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