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It's amazing how a barely two page document has influenced research and discovery in the world of science and formed the lives of many people.

The country of Sweden is synonymous with Volvo and ABBA, but Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize is perhaps Sweden's most endearing commodity.

The renowned chemist, businessman, and inventor gave the world its most prestigious award for literature, peace, and the sciences.

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was given to President Barack Obama. The news has people asking, "how?" and "why?"

Authors such as Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing, Gunter Grass, Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Pearl Buck, William Butler Yeats, and Boris Pasternak are recognized.

There were a record number of nominees for 2009's Nobel Peace Prize. Find out how the award became so coveted, who nominates the candidates and how the winner is picked.

With the announcement that President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, students may become more interested in this highly esteemed award.

In October, the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced once again. Find out more about this important literary prize, its history and previous literature nobelists.

In the 19th century, machines were changing everyday life in many important ways. This led to a widespread craze for all kinds of machines and all things mechanical.

When by his last will Alfred Nobel instituted the Nobel Prize in 1895 to recognize great human endeavors, he neglected to make allowance for achievements in mathematics.

Nominees are waiting for 12 October 2007 when this years Nobel Peace Prize winner will be announced. Oprah Winfrey, Al Gore and Sheila Watt-Cloutier are in the running.

Von Suttner dedicated most of her life to the possibility of world peace through writing and activism. But even her heroic efforts could not forestall an upcoming war.

In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. This prestigious award has a long and illustrious history.

The Nobel Peace Prize acknowledges powerful activists who have advanced the cause of peace under the most trying circumstances. How diverse is the roster of winners?

Every year around October there is much speculation about Nobel Prize winners, especially who the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize will be.

Doris Lessing, the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, joins a group of only ten other women who have been named Nobel Laureates in Literature.

Find out what impact early aerial photography had on current aerial mapping technologies

The Nobel Prize in Economic this year has been awarded to two economists: Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson for their research in outside the market forces.