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Table 1.

The Nobel Institutions Charged with Selecting the Laureates.

Prize Category	Year First Awarded	Responsible Institute
Chemistry	1901	Royal Swedish Academy of Science
Physics	1901	Royal Swedish Academy of Science
Physiology or Medicine	1901	Nobel Assembly at the Royal Caroline Institute (Karolinska Institutet)^*
Peace	1901	Norwegian Nobel Committee
Literature	1901	The Swedish Academy
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel^**	1969	Royal Swedish Academy of Science

^*Composed of 50 professors at the Institute.

^**Although not established as a Prize through Nobel’s will and the Nobel Foundation, it has been accepted functionally as “the Nobel Prize in Economics” and is often referred to in that way by the media.

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2017 July; 8(3): e0035. ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2017 July 1. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10311