On December 10th, 1901, the First Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. The ceremony commemorated the fifth anniversary of the Swedish inventor, Alfred Nobel, and awarded various recipients in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. Today, the Nobel Prizes are regarded as the most prestigious awards in the world in their various fields. Notable winners have included Marie Curie, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Nelson Mandela.
