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1. Who is Alfred Nobel?

 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor,
businessman, and philanthropist. It is well known that he created dynamite
and donated his wealth to support the Nobel Prize. He also had 355
patents during the course of his career and significantly advanced science
in a number of other ways. In 1867, he received a patent for his most well-
known invention, dynamite, an explosive made of nitroglycerin.

2. What is the Nobel Prize?

 The Nobel Prize is a prestigious award administered by the Nobel
Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, and is funded by the riches of Swedish
industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. Between 1901 and 2022, 1,000
people and organizations received one of the 621 Nobel Prizes or the
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in
Economic Sciences in Alfred Nobel's memory, who founded the Nobel
Prize. Each prize comes with a medal, a special diploma, and cash.

 A recipient of the coveted Nobel Prize is known as a Nobel Prize laureate.

One who sports a laurel wreath is described as a "laureate" by the
adjective.

3. What are the different fields recognized by the award-giving body?

 A more ideal world was in Alfred Nobel's mind. He thought that through
education, science, and humanism, people may contribute to the
betterment of society. This is the reason he established an award to honor
the discoveries that have had the greatest positive impact on humanity.
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been given in the categories of literature,
peace, physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, and a memorial prize
in economic sciences.

4. Why did Sir Nobel establish the Nobel Prize?

 There are numerous explanations for why the Nobel created the award.
Although this is a widely held belief, it is not supported by Nobel's own
words. Albert Einstein, a Nobel Prize winner himself, stated that "Alfred
Nobel invented an explosive more powerful than any then known—an
exceedingly effective means of destruction. To atone for this
"accomplishment" and to relieve his conscience, he instituted his award
for the promotion of peace."
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 Nobel did have the foolish idea that his explosives may quickly put an end
to wars and fights if the devastation of focused explosions was let loose
on the battlefield. A French newspaper incorrectly published "The
merchant of death is dead" about Alfred when one of his brothers passed
away in 1888.
This incident is supposed to have contributed to Nobel's decision to use
his money to leave a better legacy.

5. What do you think is the relevance of Nobel Prize in our society?

 A more ideal world was in Alfred Nobel's mind. He thought that through
education, science, and humanism, people may contribute to the
betterment of society. This is the reason he established an award to honor
the discoveries that have had the greatest positive impact on humanity.
And one thinks that this could be a driving force in the society to think
outside the box and do great and helpful things for the nation.

6. Who is the first Filipino to win a Nobel Prize? Do you think he/she deserves it?
Explain your answer.
 For her reporting, Philippine journalist Maria Ressa shared in the 2021
Nobel Peace Prize. Ressa might have anticipated considerable acclaim in
her native Philippines as the first Filipino to win the Nobel Prize, much as
Hidilyn Diaz was feted as the first Philippine to win an Olympic gold medal
earlier in the summer of 2021. However, despite the fact that certain liberal
news organizations, lawmakers, and activists have hailed her victory as a
tremendous honor, not everyone in the nation agrees.
 I think that Maria Ressa deserved getting the Nobel Peace Prize for what
she did is very brave and eye opening to us Filipinos. The Nobel Peace
Prize appears to be intended to have a variety of political effects, as is
frequently the case. By recognizing Ressa and Muratov in this instance,
the Nobel Committee highlights political repression and promotes
democracy in both the Philippines and Russia. And in a time of democratic
regress, it supports press freedom and freedom of expression on a
worldwide scale.

7. Pick one scientific theory that you think revolutionized our society?
 The Oxygen Theory by Antoine Lavoisier, 1770s. The difficult and long-
lasting quest to develop an experimentally supported chemical theory of
combustion, respiration, and calcination led to the development of the
oxygen theory of combustion. The idea that arose was similar to the
phlogiston hypothesis in many ways, but obtaining proof for the new
theory required more than just pointing out the flaws and shortcomings of
the old theory. Lavoisier and his associates conducted a wide range of
tests meant to advance numerous points on their research frontier from
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the early 1770s until 1785, when the final crucial parts of the theory came
into place.