The Nobel Peace Prize (Scandinavian languages: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who:
Alfred Nobel's will stated that the prize should be awarded by a committee of five people elected by the Norwegian Parliament.
Nobel died in 1896 and did not leave an explanation for choosing peace as a pri...
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The Nobel Peace Prize (Scandinavian languages: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who:
Alfred Nobel's will stated that the prize should be awarded by a committee of five people elected by the Norwegian Parliament.
Nobel died in 1896 and did not leave an explanation for choosing peace as a prize category. The categories for chemistry and physics were obvious choices as he was a trained chemical engineer. The reason behind the peace prize is less clear. According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, there's significant evidence his friendship with Bertha von Suttner, a peace activist and later winner of the prize, may have profoundly influenced his decision to include peace as a category. Scholars who studied Nobel have said it was Nobel's way to compensate for developing destructive forces (Nobel's inventions included dynamite and...
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