Nobel winners to get US$110,000 raise as prize money increased | Malay Mail

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STOCKHOLM, Sept 24 — Winners of the prestigious Nobel prizes this year will receive an extra one million crowns (US$110,000 or RM465,249), the head of the foundation which oversees the awards said today. Prize money will increase to 10 million crowns this year, daily Dagens Industri reported....

A bronze bust of Alfred Nobel is pictured before the Nobel Prize ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall, in Stockholm, Sweden December 10, 2019. — TT News Agency pic via Reuters

Dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel left around 31 million crowns — about 1.8 billion crowns in today's money according to the Foundation — to fund the prizes, which have been awarded since 1901.

 

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