Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896)
1The year before his Nobel, Capecchi said, NIH denied his grant proposal.
2Nobel laureates tend to be able to process information fairly rapidly though.
3Take the words of behavioural economics Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, for example.
4Today, he reports to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel-prize winning physicist.
5The Nobel prize committee has bucked the bookies' favourite every single year.
6This work ultimately won Blackburn the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
7Former US president Jimmy Carter has won the2002 Nobel Peace Prize today.
8He is the second Greek Nobel Poet; George Seferis was the first.
9He's been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year since 2010.
10Since Nobel nominations come from past winners and other eminences, reputation counts.
11Mr Annan and the United Nations won the 2001 Nobel peace prize.
12Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year.
13Lead surgeon Dr Joseph Murray went on to win the Nobel prize.
14It's Nobel Prize week, and the scientific accolades have already been awarded.
15In the process they believe he should win the Nobel Peace Prize.
16When Bob Dylan was given his Nobel prize, I went: Fuck that.