5.4.09

Alfred Noble

Idea: 1. Pay attention to the person who make great contribution to human developement.
2. Encourage people to concern about human developing.
3.ne key word for concept: conflict/painful (Noble's invention is conflict with his original intention. People use explosive in war. Nobel feels painful for it. This is the reason he set the Noble Prize.)



"I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results."

Alfred Noble, Brainyquote, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alfrednobe142899.html, viewed Apirl 4, 2009.

"The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: the capital, invested in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the 6The Nobel Prize Winning Discoveries in Infectious Diseases Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes7 preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics; one part to the person who shall have made the most important chemical discovery or improvement; one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine; one part to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction, and one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses…"


Rifkind, D 2005, Alfred Nobel and the Noble Prize, The Nobel Prize Winning Discoveries in Infectious Diseases, Elsevier, Burlington, pp. 6-7.