Nobel Prize Nomination.

In his 1985 will, Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist who made his fortune by inventing and selling dynamite, left to posterity a sizable prize fund, stipulating that it be used each year to recognize those individuals "who shall have contributed most materially to benefit mankind." (Bishop, 52) Today, the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious and coveted award in the world. It is the undisputed arbiter of greatness in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace …showed first 75 words of 624 total…

…showed last 75 words of 624 total…Alfred Nobel, which have been traduced to a greater extent than Feldman cares to admit. Bibliography: Kurian, George The Nobel Scientists: A Biographical Encyclopedia Prometheus Books, October 2002 Bishop, Michael How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science Harvard Univ Pr, June 2003 Hargittai, Istvan; Watson, James The Road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists Oxford Press, May 2002 Abrahams, Marc The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research E P Dutton, September, 2003