The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by
- A.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- B.The Karolinska Institute
- C.The Swedish Academy
- D.The Norwegian Nobel Committee
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the Karolinska Institute, the medical university in Stockholm whose assembly selects the laureate in Physiology or Medicine, exactly as Alfred Nobel's will laid down.
Option A, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, decides Physics, Chemistry and the prize in Economic Sciences, and because it handles three of the six categories it is the answer candidates give by habit. Option C, the Swedish Academy, is a different body altogether, the one that chooses the Literature laureate, and its similar name is the sharpest trap in this chapter. Option D, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, is appointed by the parliament of Norway and awards the Peace Prize in Oslo. Learn the four awarding bodies as a table, because a question may name any one of them.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Nobel Prizes were instituted under the will of
- A.Alfred Nobel
- B.Andrew Carnegie
- C.Joseph Pulitzer
- D.Cecil Rhodes
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The Swedish chemist who invented dynamite signed his last will in 1895 and left most of his fortune to endow prizes for those who had conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.
Read the full explanation →In which year were the Nobel Prizes awarded for the first time?
- A.1895
- B.1896
- C.1901
- D.1913
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Alfred Nobel's estate had to be settled and the Nobel Foundation established before any prize could be given, so the first awards came five years after his death.
Read the full explanation →The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was instituted in 1968 by
- A.The Nobel Foundation
- B.The central bank of Sweden
- C.The Swedish Academy
- D.The Norwegian parliament
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Sveriges Riksbank founded the prize in 1968 to mark its three hundredth anniversary, and it was awarded for the first time in 1969.
Read the full explanation →The Nobel Peace Prize is presented in which city?
- A.Stockholm
- B.Oslo
- C.Geneva
- D.Copenhagen
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Alfred Nobel's will directed that the Peace Prize be decided by a committee appointed by the Norwegian parliament, while the other prizes were left to Swedish institutions, and the Peace Prize is therefore announced and presented in the Norwegian capital.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian and the first Asian to be awarded a Nobel Prize?
- A.C. V. Raman
- B.Rabindranath Tagore
- C.Mother Teresa
- D.Har Gobind Khorana
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He also wrote the national anthems sung in India and in Bangladesh.
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