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The Nobel: Visions of Our Century: Photos
The Nobel: Visions of Our Century
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Swede Alfred Nobel left a legacy through his will for yearly awards that included the disciplines of physics, chemistry, medicine, peace and literature, and later economics.

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courtesy "Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Exhibition of the Nobel Prize"
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Alfred Nobel's will stipulated that prizes would be awarded annually for peace, medicine, physics, chemistry and literature.

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courtesy "Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Exhibition of the Nobel Prize"
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Nadine Gordimer, winner of the literature prize in 1991 and the documentary's narrator, reads from her book.

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courtesy Camille Servan-Schreiber
The Nobel: Visions of Our Century
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Leading Tibet from his exile in India, the fourteenth Dalia Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, received the honor for peace in 1989 for his peace plan for Chinese-occupied Tibet.

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courtesy Pressens Bild, Stockholm
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Martin Luther King, Jr., was awarded the peace prize in 1964.

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courtesy of B. Fitch/Black Star Photos
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Murrary Gell-Mann, interviewed in the documentary, won the prize for physics in 1969 for "his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions."

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Camille Servan-Schreiber
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Niki de Saint Phalle and Paul Sacher married art and science in their immunological creation.

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courtesy Basel Institute of Immunology
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