Great Nobel Prize Laureates

In Stockholm, opened the 110 Nobel Week. C 3 to October 10 will be announced the names of Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economics, and the Peace Prize.Each Nobel Prize winner can independently decide how to dispose of his honorary award. In this paper we describe how to spend your bonus reward bright minds and respected men of our time.

Albert Schweitzer

Some of the winners of the funds transferred to the charity. For example, a German physician, missionary, theologian and musicologist Albert Schweitzer (Nobel Peace Prize in 1957) built on the money leprosarium in Lambaréné (French Equatorial Africa, now Gabon). Leprosarium Schweitzer, was admitted as a memorial museum and operates today.

1987. Mikhail Gorbachev. At that time, General Secretary of the CPSU.

Peace Prize laureate for 1990 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev transferred the money in the budget. All funds have been spent in the target article expenditure on construction of hospitals in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, zoologist Fridtjof Nansen

Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen received in 1922 the Peace Prize, most of it - 80 thousand dollars donated to Russia by acquiring equipment for two demonstration farm stations. The remaining 30 thousand dollars Nansen sent to the aid of the Greeks and Armenians, refugees from Turkey.

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa received the Peace Prize in 1979. The money she spent on the construction of shelters for the poor and the Christmas dinner for two thousand destitute.

Gunter Blobel

The American scientist of German origin Gunter Blobel, who became laureate in medicine in 1999, spent most of the feed - one million dollars - to rebuild the Frauenkirche church and the synagogue in Dresden.

Ivan Pavlov

On the scientific goals gave his prize physiologist Ivan Pavlov - the first Russian winner (prize 1904). With this money created Pavlov Institute of Physiology, permanent director who remained until 1936.

Ilya Mechnikov

Then the microbiologist Ilya Mechnikov (the prize in 1908) gave the money to develop the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he led one of the laboratories. His example was followed and microbiologist André Michel Lvov (Award 1965), who also worked at the Pasteur Institute. They remained faithful to tradition and Zhores Alferov (prize for physics in 2000), based on the premium fund to support education and science at the Physico-Technical Institute. A Joffe.

Ahmed Zewail

Egyptian Ahmed Zewail, who became laureate in chemistry in 1999 for the money to buy one of the universities of Egypt laser installation, and Paul Greengard American scholar, an award-winning in the field of medicine in 2000, donated a portion of premiums to the Fund support for women researchers working in medicine.

Rene Francois Armand Sully Prudhomme-

The first Nobel Prize for Literature (1901), French poet Rene Francois Armand Sully Prudhomme-paid premium received - 42 thousand francs - at the base of his own poetic "Sully-Prudhomme Award." It lasted six years before the poet's death.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

His award for 1982 writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has invested in the business - in a magazine Revista Cambio, which came out in Colombia and Mexico.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The prize writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, winner of 1970, long remained in Western banks. After moving to the U.S. it on Nobel Prize money has bought the estate in Vermont.

Mikhail Sholokhov

Nobel Prize winner in 1965 writer Mikhail Sholokhov spent money on a trip around the world. As a writer's daughter Svetlana recalls, he spent the money on something to show their children to Europe and Japan. Part of the resulting 62 thousand dollars spent on construction Sholokhov library and club in the Rostov region. In the same way he entered with his award and physicist Alexander Prokhorov, winner of 1964.

Vitaly Ginzburg

Academician Vitaly Ginzburg, one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, when asked how he spent money, shrugged his shoulders: "Wife gave. My wife has the first word in the family, she manages the money." So did Imre Kertész the Hungarian writer (award 2002).

Albert Einstein's first wife Mileva with Maric

Albert Einstein, who became a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921, he gave her cash component of Mileva Maric his ex-wife, with whom divorced two years earlier. Thus, the scientist performed the marriage contract, binding him in case of award of the Nobel Prize to give it to his wife, assisted in the research.

Ivan Bunin

Renowned Russian writer Ivan Bunin, won the 1933 Prize for Literature, the prize squandered. A check for the 715 000 French francs, could provide a comfortable life Bunin and comfortable environment for creativity to the end. However, the Nobel Prize money quickly ran out. He spent them without hesitation, generously distributed to needy fellow emigrants. The remaining funds, relying on "well-wishers," put in a "win-win deal" and went bankrupt.

In the same way squandered their premiums Danish physicist Niels Bohr and the Italian playwright Dario For.

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Brussels (1930)

The Soviet physicist Nikolai Basov in 1964, received from the organizing committee of 13 000 dollars, which put in Vneshtorgbank. For this scientist took a special permit, as individuals do not have the right to open accounts there.

Many Nobel laureates have invested in their own hobbies award. For example, a British biochemist Richard Roberts, winner of the Prize for Medicine in 1993, graced the platform in front of the home field for cricket. Franco Modigliani, an American economist who has received "nobelevku" in 1985, bought a yacht. A Nobel Prize winner in 2001, a British biochemist and an avid biker Paul Nurse of the money invested in tuning your favorite motorcycle.

Over the past two days of the 110th Nobel Peace Week has been named laureate in physiology and medicine, and physics.

Bruce Boytler, Jules Hoffman and Ralph Staynman

"Nobel" in the field of medicine have Boytler Bruce, Jules Hoffman and Ralph Staynman for studies related to the immune system. Sadly, Staynmanu was not destined to live up to his award, he died before its announcement yet on September 30.

Saul Perlmutter

"Nobel" in physics went to Saul Perlmutter and Americans Adam Riesz and Australian Brian Schmidt, who uncovered the secret of the universe.

Well, these people certainly deserve their awards and find the right application for their premiums, handle your money on merit.