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Share this: The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded at a meeting of the Norwegian Parliament which took place at ten o'clock on the morning of December 10, 1901.
Nobel prizes often attract controversy, but usually after they have been awarded. Albert Einstein's physics prize was the subject of argument for years before it was even a reality. Albert Einstein in 1920. He would receive the Nobel Prize in Physics the following year, but not for relativity. There was a lot riding on Einstein winning a Nobel prize. Beyond his academic reputation, and that of the Nobel Institute for recognising greatness, the wellbeing of his former wife and their two sons depended upon it. In the aftermath of the first world war, defeated Germany was being consumed by hyper-inflation.