For professionals in such fields as physics, medicine and literature, there is no higher honor than the Nobel Prize.
It marks the apogee (see definition and hear pronunciation below) of a distinguished and fruitful career.
The award was first laid out in the will of Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, who became rich from his invention of dynamite.
Since 1901, the prizes have been presented each year (with very few exceptions) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Some of the most influential Nobel Laureates have included Albert Einstein, philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and chemist Marie Curie, also the first woman to receive the prize.
The youngest winner, physicist William Lawrence Bragg, was just 25 years old when he won the prize in 1915!
Cool word vocabulary question of the day: What other honors or achievements do you think could be considered the apogee of a person’s life and work?
Apogee: The highest point of something; culmination; the point in outer space that is farthest from Earth.
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