As one of the most influential awards in the world, Nobel Prize has always attracted the most widespread attention in the world. The Times has included the top ten most controversial events in the history of the Nobel Prize, including the fascist Hitler who was nominated as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate.
1. Edison refused to receive the award
Inventors Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison are incompatible with each other. The two refused to share the same award and claimed that if one person wins the award first, the other person will never accept it. In November 1915, when news came that Tesla and Edison won the Nobel Prize in Physics, they both chose to refuse.
2. The Peace Prize was awarded to the "Criminal of Conscience" for the first time
In 1936, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to German non-warmist journalist Karl von Osietsky. But the Nazi authorities did not allow Osiez to go to Oslo to receive the award.
In 1937, the furious Hitler issued a decree prohibiting the Germans from receiving the Nobel Prize because he believed that the award of the Peace Prize to Osietsky was an insult to him.
The award-winning Osietsky was sent to a private hospital, but was always under strict surveillance. In 1938, he died of serious illness due to long-term torture and ill-treatment in concentration camps.
This is the first time in history that the Peace Prize was awarded to prisoners of conscience, setting a precedent for this Prize to "interference in internal affairs". As Brandt said: awarding the award to Osietsky "is a moral victory over the barbarism in power." From then on, the Nobel Peace Prize began to face human rights.
3. Hitler was nominated for the Peace Prize
In 1939, a member of Swedish nominated Adolf Hitler as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate, and the nomination was subsequently cancelled.
4. The former Soviet Union prevented writers from accepting the Literature Prize
In 1958, in view of the artistic achievements and global influence of "Doctor Zhivago", the Swedish Academy awarded the Pasternak Nobel Prize in Literature.
However, what happened next became very subtle. The tendency to politicize the novel issue is becoming increasingly obvious. Some people in the West use certain plots and words in the novel to attack the October Revolution and the Soviet regime, and the Soviet Union also began to fight back. The atmosphere was very tense for a moment, and those who had never read the novel also began to criticize Pasternak. Immediately afterwards, on November 4, the Soviet government authorized TASS to issue a statement that if Pas attends the awards ceremony and does not return to his country, the Soviet government will never try to keep him.
Pasternak announced in advance that the situation would not be developed, so he announced in advance that he refused to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 29. Pasternak's complaints finally played a role, and with the help of world public opinion, he was able to stay in his motherland and live in a small village outside Moscow until he died of illness on May 30, 1960. He is the only writer in the century-old Nobel Prize history who not only failed to win honors but instead incurs shame and disaster.
5. Sartre Refusing to accept the Literature Prize
French writer and philosopher Jean Paul Sartre may be the only person who consciously, voluntarily and sincerely rejects the Nobel Prize because he needs to maintain his independent personality and free spirit. It can also be said that Sartre is one of the few people in the world who are difficult to buy with money and honor.
In 1964, when Sartre learned that he was nominated by the Nobel Prize jury and was likely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature that year, he immediately wrote to the jury, saying that he would reject the prize. But the jury still solemnly awarded Sartre the Nobel Prize for Literature that year, on the grounds that for his works that are full of ideas, free spirit and pursuit of truth, these works have had a long-term impact on our times.
However, Sartre's rejection is not a false one. After the news of the awards came out, he immediately drafted a statement that "writers should refuse to be converted into institutions", which was read out in Stockholm by Sartre's publisher in Sweden on October 22 of that year.
6. Li Deshou Refused to receive the Peace Prize
The United States began to intervene in the Vietnam War in the early 1960s, and held several public and unpublic peace talks in Paris from 1968 to 1973. Since 1970, Li Deshou has held secret talks with the US National Security Assistant Henry Kissinger for several times, so that the Paris Peace Conference on January 27, 1973 can discuss the ceasefire between Vietnam.
While the meeting continued, there were still some sporadic battles in Vietnam. The United States withdrew its troops from Vietnam before March 29 of that year, but it still launched a bombing on North Vietnam . As the two sides continued to violate the ceasefire agreement, Li Deshou and Kissinger continued to meet in Paris from May to June of the same year to discuss the exercise of the ceasefire agreement. By June 13, the representatives of the United States and North Vietnam officially announced the exercise of the provisions.
In 1973, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to North Vietnamese leader Li Deshou and US Secretary of State Kissinger, and the international community booed. Two members of the Nobel Committee resigned, and Li Deshou refused to accept the peace prize, saying that Vietnam has not yet achieved peace.
7. The winner of the Literature Prize was reported
In 1999, writer David Stor said that Rigoweta Menchu, the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, lied in his autobiography, but the Nobel Committee did not deprive Menchu of the prize because Stor's "report" had nothing to do with it.
8. Rabin won the Peace Prize
In 1994, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize. Many Israelis are worried that Rabin betrayed the motherland of Israel and gave up a large amount of land, which led to the death of more Jews.
9. "Viagra" researcher award-winning
Dr. Ignaro and his two working partners successfully discovered that nitric oxide is a gas that can convey information. It can regulate the function of another cell through the cell membrane. Their discovery created a new theory of information transmission in biological systems. It was this major discovery and the study of nitric oxide that led Dr. Ignaro to win the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Ignaro recalled that at the time he was at the Nice Airport in France, a ground crew member asked him to receive an "important call from the United States." After he took the call, his colleague informed him of winning the award, and he thought it was a prank.
A American pharmaceutical factory used this discovery to produce "Viagra" that cures impotence.
10.Gor won the Peace Prize
In 2007, there was a lot of booing voices in the scientific community. Former US Vice President Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for strengthening global climate change awareness. Critics say Gore is not a scientist and doesn't even understand climate change at all. Source: China News Network
