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Working bodies that help select Nobel Prize laureates
Joseph Goebbels did not receive a Nobel Prize; he was never a laureate. What is historically documented is that Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature, gave his physi...
The Nobel institutions say bluntly that once a prize is awarded it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred — a finality grounded in the Nobel Foundation’s statutes and the practice of the prize comm...
No — there is no credible, documented ban barring Donald Trump from winning any future Nobel prizes; claims that he has been "permanently disqualified" circulated on social media and have been contrad...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve ...
The Nobel Prize medals awarded today are cast in 18‑carat "green gold" (an alloy of gold and silver) and since 1980 have been plated with 24‑carat gold; earlier medals were made of higher‑carat solid ...
Barack Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize provoked immediate international debate, with critics arguing the award was , rewarded symbolic promise over concrete achievement, and conflicted with active U.S....
The Nobel Prizes, as administered by the Nobel Foundation and its committees, are ; historians and institution representatives state the committees have no mechanism to rescind a prize after the annou...
Barack Obama did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize before taking office; the Nobel Committee awarded him the 2009 prize while he was President, roughly nine months into his first term. Other U.S. pres...
The Nobel Peace Prize carries a headline cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (SEK) per prize category as of 2023 — a sum the Nobel Foundation set after a 2020 increase and a further adjustment in ...
The short answer: no — Albert Einstein did not fail math in school, nor did he repeat a grade because of incompetence in mathematics; persistent myths arise from shifting grading scales, selective rec...
Donald Trump has been in recent years, but the exact tally is not specified in the material provided; reporting indicates nominations began after his 2018 foreign-policy actions and continued in later...
The principal criticisms of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama were that the award was , that it conflicted with ongoing U.S. military actions, and that it appeared politically symbolic—someti...
The claim that Barack Obama’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize announcement provoked surprise and mixed reactions is supported across the provided analyses: observers and officials were shocked by the timing, s...
María Corina Machado received the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership in the Venezuelan opposition, and the reporting available in the provided sources contains . Contemporary profiles and inter...
Three independent news analyses show ; reporting instead records Trump's claims and nominations, and the Nobel committee's rebuffs. The available pieces from September 2025 uniformly report that Trump...
María Corina Machado is widely described in recent reporting as a right‑leaning, free‑market, hardline anti‑Chavista opposition leader who has pushed for more confrontational tactics — including close...
The Nobel Peace Prize has a long history of laureates later accused of wrongdoing or of failing to uphold peace, producing controversies ranging from resignations and reputational damage to public cal...
Donald Trump received multiple public nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025 and 2026 from a mix of U.S. lawmakers and foreign leaders who pointed to his diplomacy and ceasefire efforts—most pr...
The Nobel Committee awarded Barack Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize primarily for what it described as initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, reach out diplomatically to the Muslim world, and emphasize m...
The Nobel Prize did not "ban" Donald Trump — there is no mechanism or report showing the Nobel Committee barred him from anything; instead the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan oppositi...