  Week of Nobel Prize announcements begins Oct 3October 3, 2011 - 16:27 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A week of Nobel Prize announcements begins Monday, October 3 in Stockholm, Sweden with the 2011 Nobel Prize for Medicine. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will name the winner in physics Tuesday and chemistry Wednesday. An award for economics, given in memory of Alfred Nobel, will be announced October 10. The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize recipient will be named Friday. The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite. The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901. Ninety-one Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded. On 19 different occasions the prize committee felt there were no nominees who met the criteria for the award. The International Committee of the Red Cross has been recognized most often, with three awards. Only one peace laureate has declined the award. In 1973 Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho was recognized along with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Le Duc Tho declined the Nobel Peace Prize, Voice of America reported.   Top stories David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with Stephan Schütz, Executive Partner at Gerkan, Marg and Partners. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said.   Partner news |  Latest news Ucom General Director joins High-Tech Development Panel Discussion  The discussion was titled "The Role of International Corporations and Investors as Catalysts for Development of High-Tech Ecosystem."Family of Ilham Aliyev’s security chief owns vast property in UK As head of security for Azerbaijan’s president, Eyyubov is closely trusted by one of the world’s most authoritarian leaders.Mirzoyan says meeting with Bayramov was “constructive” At the moment, Ararat Mirzoyan said, there is no basis for additional comments.OSCE vows support for Armenia “in all three directions of security” Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. |
