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This Day in History - December 10th
(2001) - Color - 1 min
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This Day in History - December 10th
Starring - First Nobel Prize
Directed by - (2001) - Color - 1 min
The LikeTelevision™ History channel proudly presents, This Day In History - December 10! On December 10, 1901, in Stockholm, Sweden, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in the specialized fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The awards were devised by Alfred Nobel, who amassed his fortune through his inventions of dynamite and other explosives. The prizes, in sums between $30,000 and $40,000 dollars, in the words of Nobel's will, should be annually made to those who during the preceding year shall have conferred the greatest benefit on Mankind. Notable winners have included Madame Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Linus Pauling, Winston Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, Albert Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Thomas Mann and W.B. Yeats. And three who refused it - Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Boris Pasternak.
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