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  Nobel_Prize
The Nobel Prizes are prizes instituted by the will of Alfred Nobel, awarded to people (and also to organizations in the case of the Nobel Peace Prize) who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society.
The peace prize ceremony was held at the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 1905 until 1946, later at the Aula of the University of Oslo, and since 1990 at the Oslo City Hall.
For example, in 2002, a Prize was awarded to Koichi Tanaka and John Fenn for the development of mass spectrometry in protein chemistry, failing to recognise the achievements of Franz Hillenkamp and Michael Karas of the Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt.
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 Nobel Prize - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The prizes are awarded at formal ceremonies held annually in the Stockholm Concert Hall and the Oslo City Hall on December 10, the date that Alfred Nobel passed away.
The Nobel Peace Prize is given in Oslo, Norway, by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The prizes were instituted by the final will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, industrialist, and the inventor of dynamite.
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 Nobel Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As of November 2005, a total of 776 Nobel Prizes have been awarded (758 to individuals and 18 to organizations).Nobel Prize Facts However, a few prize winners have declined the award.
The Dan David Prize, valued at 1 million US dollars each, is awarded every year in three categories - the past, present, and future).
The Templeton Prize is the largest financial annual prize award given to a single person for intellectual merit, worth 795,000 pounds sterling or 1.4 million US dollars in 2006.
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 Henry Kissinger - SourceWatch
He also developed the first official U.S. contact with Communist China.
He negotiated the cease-fire agreement that ended the Vietnam War, for which he shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 with Le Duc Tho (who refused it)."The BritannicaConcise, Yahoo (http://education.yahoo.com/search/be?lb=tandp=url%3Ak/kissinger__henry_a_)
He was also an advisor to Ronald Reagan and was appointed by him to chair the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America until it ceased operation in January 1985 and, from 1984-1990, he served as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
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