Beautiful Minds: Capture the spirit of Nobel achievement
Alfred Nobel was both a creative genius and an idealist.
The inventor of dynamite and over 300 patents left an enduring legacy
to the world by establishing a fund which would award annual prizes
in five specified fields: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature
and peace. Economic science was added in the 1960s. But what does
it take to win a Nobel Prize: genes or genius, education or environment?
How to find us
This feature is associated with a major exhibition at the
British Library, which ran from 7 December 2005 to 15 March
- You can find out about what's in the new exhibition and learn things about the Nobel Prizes you didn't know.
- You can read about our learning and events programmes and see what our shop has to offer.
- You can read a specially-written illustrated feature
about the Nobel Laureate Sir Alexander
Fleming (1881-1955), discoverer of penicillin, whose
archive is in the British Library.
- You can hear
Nobel Laureates talking about their work.