October 9, 2009
Published: 5 Oct 09 11:32 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/14776/20091005/
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Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel created the Nobel prizes in his will, written in 1895, bequeathing his fortune to a fund that would honour "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind."
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