First Nobel Prizes awarded
December 10, 1901
In Stockholm, the first Nobel Prizes were handed out under the terms of Alfred Nobel's will, which had tried to balance his fortune from dynamite with an annual endowment for human benefit. Roentgen took physics, Dunant the peace prize, Sully Prudhomme literature. A new hierarchy of global prestige had been created.
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