Do Nobel prize winners get a trophy or plaque? If so, what does it look like?
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They get a cash prize and a medal etc. Here's a link where you can see the medal.\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/nobel+prize?gwp=12&method=2
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It's called Darwin Award. For more info visit http://www.darwinawards.com/
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Yeh, interesting question.  Here is a good response, taken from the Boston Globe:\n\nSort of, but as is so often the case, it's a little more subtle than a simple yes/no answer.\n\nEinstein did receive the Nobel prize in physics in 1921, and the actual citation from the Nobel committee was ''for services to Theoretical Physics, and especially of the law of the photoelectric effect."\n\nDuring 1905 alone Einstein probably made enough scientific leaps to justify three Nobel prizes, writing several papers that would change the world. Certainly the case could be made that he should have had several more for work done afterward, but most people like to think of that year as ''the big one" that made certain he would get a Nobel prize no matter what.\n\nOne 1905 paper dealt with the ''photoelectric effect" and is the work that was clearly cited for the prize. In this work he showed that, although most scientists believed light acted like a wave, one must also at times treat light as being made of little chunks of electromagnetic energy called photons. This was the beginning of the strange subject of quantum mechanics which made it essential to drop many preconceived notions of what made sense in order to really understand how the world worked.\n\nAnother paper of 1905 introduced Einstein's special theory of relativity (special in that it could not deal with acceleration, but only with constant velocity's) and introduced the radical idea of merging space and time into one thing: space-time.\n\nYet another 1905 paper showed that one could infer the existence of atoms -- something still controversial at the time -- by looking at the random motion of grains of pollen in a drop of water.\n\nEinstein kept working to develop his general theory of relativity, which extended the special theory to include acceleration and gravity, but this took a bit of time to get sorted out -- it was published in 1915 and introduced the idea of curved space-time.\n\nThis list of achievements is nowhere near complete, but space restrictions make me stop here.\n\nMany people feel that the Nobel committee wanted to hedge its bets a bit by just picking out just one of the mind-blasting 1905 breakthroughs (which were all still controversial 15 years later) and lumping the rest together as ''Theoretical Physics." Oddly enough, it's the ideas of quantum mechanics, ushered in by the Nobel-cited photoelectric effect paper, that are perhaps the most controversial today!
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No. A hall of fame is not about winners. Webster's dictionary doesn't have a definition for Hall of Fame. In fact the Hall of Fame means different things to different people. Above all, a Hall of Fame exists to acknowledge and honor the men and women who have risen to the top of their profession.
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medals?  like a purple heart?
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The Jules Rimet (not Juliette) trophy was the original prize for winning the World Cup. During World War II (1939-1945), the trophy was held by Italy (by virtue of their 1938 victory). Ottorino Barassi, an official of the Italian Football Federation, hid it from the Germans in a shoe-box under his bed. During a public exhibition just before the 1966 World Cup Final in England the trophy was stolen, but was found just seven days later.\n\nThe Brazilian team won the trophy in perpetuity in 1970, being rewarded for being the only team ever to have won three World Cups. However the cup was stolen again in 1983 and never recovered: it may have been smelted. The Brazilian Football Confederation commissioned a replica of their own, made of sterling silver with a gold plating and a blue base made of lapis lazuli.\n\nA replacement trophy, officially known as the FIFA World Cup, was designed and first presented to the winners of the 1974 World Cup. But this time around, FIFA is unlikely to give it away again: the winners of the tournament receive it in loan for four years and receive a replica to keep. It is not known whether FIFA will retire the trophy after all of the name plaques at the base are filled in; this will occur after the 2038 World Cup.
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Nobel Peace Prize for coming up with a way for the blind to read.
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There is, though, a Nobel Prize in Physics. Winners for the past 100 years can be found at the site below, as for whether any are from Africa, it's up to you. I find it unlikely, due to the fact that the majority of cutting-edge Physics work requires huge amounts of capital, something more likely to occur in more-Westernized countries.
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I can not answer myself, but as it is a really interesting question I just googled-it... and found these two great links.\nThe first one is an article from the main page of the nobel.org: Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate\nby Øyvind Tønnesson,Nobel e-Museum Peace Editor, 1998-2000\n\nOf course may be is a lot of the story we'll never know!!
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The link below lists all of the Nobel Prize winners from 1900 to 2005.\n\nThere are three prizes that are offered for "science" - chemistry, physics, and medicine.
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Here's a great website with pictures of the various nobel gases in lamps so you can see their glows and describe them yourself.\n\nhttp://www.assumption.edu/users/bniece/Spectra/Complete.html
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Well, a little and a lot.  The awards are medals.....the design changes as each country sees fit.   Also the ancient olympic games awarded an olive wreath, which Athens used in 2004.
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Actually the official date is November 9th 1921. That is when the Nobel Prize for Physics was announced.  The site that was given you to look at was the actual ceramony.  The actual prize would have been given to him there at that ceramony but Einstien was not able to make it to Sweden to recieve it.  But the official date in the record books is November 9,1921... look at the bottom of the site that Viking gave you.
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Perhaps Nelson Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize as some form of compensation for spending 25 (3?) years in prison as a 'terrorist'?\n\nPlease don't misunderstand me; I never thought of Mandela as a terrorist, although the government of my country DID for many years - maybe he was awarded the prize out of the collective guilt of the western world.
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hey there is a whole big article that i cannot post you can get thru tis link\nhttp://nobelprize.org/chemistry/articles/malmstrom/index.html
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Roger D. Kornberg got it for chemistry. There is no Nobel prize for biology.
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It's Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nThe Nobel Prize\nThe Nobel Prize is the first international award given yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) instituted the Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and prize amount.\n\n  \nAlfred Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His family was descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical genius of Sweden's 17th century era as a great power in northern Europe.  \nNobel invented dynamite in 1866 and later built up companies and laboratories in more than 20 countries all over the world.  \nOn November 27, 1895, Nobel signed his last will providing for the establishment of the Nobel Prize. He died of cerebral haemorrhage in his home in San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896.