It’s that time of the year in Scandinavia when the wind turns colder, the days get shorter and academics in Stockholm and Oslo grab the world spotlight as they announce the winners of the Nobel Prizes.
A bust of Alfred Nobel on display following a press conference to announce the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. The first Nobel Prizes were presented in 1901, five years after Nobel’s death.
US President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama enters the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. The Nobel Prizes project an aura of being above the political fray, focused solely on the benefit of humanity. But the peace and literature awards, in particular, are sometimes accused of being politicized.
Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjoern Jagland speaks during the ceremony in Oslo City Hall, Friday Dec. 10, 2010 to honour this years Nobel Peace Prize winner, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, whose picture hangs behind. When imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the peace prize in 2010, Beijing responded by freezing trade talks with Norway. It took years for Norway-China relations to be restored.
US President Nixon’s National Security Adviser Henry A. Kissinger, left, and Le Duc Tho, member of Hanoi’s Politburo, are photographed outside a suburban house at Gif Sur Yvette in Paris, Wednesday, June 13, 1973. Most winners are proud and humbled by joining the pantheon of Nobel laureates from Albert Einstein to Mother Teresa.
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