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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize is the brainchild of the late Alfred Nobel. It was created due to Nobel’s desire to recognize individuals who contributed to the advancement of physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature and peace.

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What is value of noble prize in Indian currency?

The Nobel Prize amount for 2014 is set at Swedish kronor (SEK) 8.0 million per full Nobel Prize.

it is nearly 1.4 million US dollars

& that is nearly 67.7 million indian rupees

Why isn't there a Nobel Prize for math?

No one's exactly sure why there's no Nobel prize for math.

One story claims that Alfred Nobel decided against a prize for mathematics because Nobel believed Gösta Mittag-Leffler would be likely to win it, and Nobel had had a romantic rivalry with him over Signe Lindfors (Mittag-Leffler's wife).

However, there's no historical evidence to support this story, and it's not known exactly why no prize was created for mathematics. It's possible that Nobel simply didn't find it interesting enough.

In what year did the Swedish Academy instituted the Nobel Prize in Economic Science?

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was instituted by the Swedish Academy in 1968. It was not part of the original Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel in his will in 1895, but was created in memory of Nobel by the Swedish central bank.