Nobel Museum - Stockholm Sweden

We spent the afternoon at the Nobel Prize Museum. Very interesting. Overhead, a bio of each laureate's accomplishment passes on a manufacturing trolly. It takes twelve or more for the same laureate to pass twice. We had the good fortune of looking up and seeing Barack Obama.

The Nobel Prizes are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. The original Nobel Prizes covered five fields: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace, specified in Nobel's will. A sixth prize, the Prize in Economic Sciences, was established in 1968.Read more