Re:Nobel prise

Mel and Ellie Briscoe

Message 7635 · 9 May 1997 20:23:19 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

Physics, chemistry, medicine-physiology, literature, and peace, first
awarded in 1901 (according to the 1997 World Almanac). Nobel Memorial
Prize in Economic Science began in 1969, funded by the central bank of
Sweden.

ellie

On Fri, 9 May 1997, stasa morgan-appel wrote:

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> I could have sworn there was a Nobel prize in Mathematics... Now my
> curiosity is truly piqued. Any answers out there? - Stasa
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> > One useless trivium about Nobel prizes
> >I've heard concerns the reason why there is no Nobel prize for
> >mathematics: The story goes that Nobel didn't endow one because his wife
> >eloped with a mathematician.
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> And the version that I ran across was no prize for geology/mining because he
> wife eloped with a mining engineer!
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> Maybe on of our Swedish colleagues can research this for us!
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> What a deviation from Roaring Jelly!!
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