Noble Prize Facts

[Sources: nobelprize.org, wikipedia.com]

          From 1901 to 2010, a total of 543 Nobel Prizes have been awarded a total 840 times to 813 laureates, a few of whom have been honored more than once, and 20 organizations. Following are the ten countries with the greatest number of Nobel Prizes. The statistics are based on citizenship of the Nobel laureates.

United States (326)          

Peace: 22

Physics: 88

Chemistry: 63

Physiology or Medicine: 94

Literature: 12

Economic Science: 47

United Kingdom (115)

Peace: 10

Physics: 23

Chemistry: 28

Physiology or Medicine: 33

Literature: 13

Economic Science: 8

Germany (103)

Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 for Graphene -- 'Two-Dimensional' Material

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both of the University of Manchester, "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene."



 Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim



A thin flake of ordinary carbon, just one atom thick, lies behind this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Geim and Novoselov have shown that carbon in such a flat form has exceptional properties that originate from the remarkable world of quantum physics.

This year Nobel Prize in Physics : Optical fiber and Digital Camera

Nobel Prize was established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901. He was a Swedish chemist and industrialist. He was also inventor of high explosive Dynamite. The mount of 31 million Swedish Kroner was deposited to establish the world's most prestigious prize "Nobel Prize". In the beginning, Nobel Prize was awarded in four different fields, viz. Physics, Chemistry, Literature and Physiology or Medicine. Later other two new fields, Peace and Economics have been introduced.