How are Nobel Prize winners determined?

I had touched this subject mahalo.com/answers/who-will-win-the-next... here before and it's a question I answer offline from time to time. It seems not many people go to the official website for the Nobel Prize to read their guidelines, which vary from comittee to comittee a little bit: "Qualifications to nominate candidates vary somewhat among the different Nobel Prize Committees. "(1)

Comittees are also different.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not given by Sweeden. It's given by Norway and "is awarded by a committee of five, appointed by the Storting (the Norwegain parliament). According to the rules laid down by the Storting, election to the committee is for a six-year term, and members can be re-elected.

The committee's composition reflects the relative strengths of the political parties in the Storting. Although this is not a requirement, all committee members have been Norwegian nationals".(2) The Nobel Committee for Literature (like other comittees), on the other hand, is Sweedish: "The Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy is responsible for the selection of candidates from the names submitted by invited nominators. Committee members are elected for a period of three years from among the members of the Academy.In assessing the qualifications of the candidates, the Committee is assisted by specially appointed expert advisers.

"(3) Regarding your last question, the answer is "No". In literature, for example, the comittee invites qualified people to nominate candidates, and specifies that "The right to submit proposals for the Nobel Prize in Literature shall, by statute, be enjoyed by: 1. Members of the Swedish Academy and of other academies, institutions and societies which are similar to it in construction and purpose; 2.

Professors of literature and of linguistics at universities and university colleges; 3. Previous Nobel Laureates in Literature; 4. Presidents of those societies of authors that are representative of the literary production in their respective countries.

"(3)

Then the committee chooses the final candidates, reads their work, writes a report on each final candidate and sends these reports to the Academy, where members vote and choose a laureate.(3) Geopolitics and nationality do seem to matter sometimes in the case of nomintations. For example, Harald Tom Nesvik, a far-right Norwegian politician, claimed he had nominated George W. Bush and Tony Blair for the Nobel Peace Prize.(4) They didn't win, of course, but comittes are made up of human beings who make mistakes and have their own political inclinations, so there have been some questionable or controversial Nobel Laureates before.

As a footnote I must add that the the Economics Nobel Prize (The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) is not exactly a Nobel, but it is awarded by the Sweedish Academy.(5).

The Nobel Prizes are awarded without regard to nationality. The judges are, by the terms of Nobel's will, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for physics and chemistry and economic science, the Swedish Royal Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute for physiology or medicine, the Swedish Academy for literature and a committee elected by the Norwegian parliament for peace. The awards are made on Dec.10, the anniversary of Nobel's death, the Peace Prize being presented in Oslo and the others in Stockholm.

For information, hit the link infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0835782.html.

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