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Nobel Prize Foundation

Alfred B. Nobel (1833-1896) a Swedish Chemist & Engineer by profession, who invented Dynamite and making Bofors a major arms manufacturer, left Nine Million Dollars in his will  to establish Nobel Prizes which are awarded annually to all those who have done best to benefit mankind without regard to Nationality in the areas of Peace, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Economic Science. Winning a Nobel Prize is a life changing honor. The award attracts internationally known figure - a Scientist, a Laureate towards recognition highlighting one life's work and provide funds to continue and move ahead towards the mission. For Academics & Institutions, the prize is to attract best and brightest minds - whether students or Scholars. At the outset, it seems odd that an inventor of a powerful explosive would establish a group of awards which include Peace prize. But Nobel was an industrialist with conscience. He credited himself with creation of a control