nobel prizes are endowed by the 1896 will of swedish dynamite inventor alfred nobel. ; word of a nobel winner ; lying there in the room that smelled of the sweat of all their bodies , the dregs of their beer , and the bitterness of cigarette ends , hearing the man snort , turn on the cheap iron bed uninhibited in acceptance of himself in sleep , as he was always , bray thought how it was a remarkable man , there -- like many of the other remarkable men on this continent who had ended up dead in a ditch .