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The Norwegian Nobel Institute was established in 1904 in Oslo (Kristiania), Norway. The institute is situated in the center of the city, just by the Royal palace. Image File history File links Norske_nobelinstiutt_1. ... Image File history File links Norske_nobelinstiutt_1. ... Jump to: navigation, search County Oslo NO-03 Landscape Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 224 454 kmÂ² 426 kmÂ² 0. ... Jump to: navigation, search County Oslo NO-03 Landscape Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 224 454 kmÂ² 426 kmÂ² 0. ...

The principal duty of the Nobel Institute is to assist the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the task of selecting the recipient(s) of the Nobel Peace Prize and to organize the annual Nobel events in Oslo. The Norwegian Nobel Committee (Den norske NobelkomitÃ©) awards the Nobel Peace Prize each year. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway. ...

The institute has a 180 thousand volume library related to peace and international relations. The Nobel Institute also has its own research department, organising research related to peace and war. The department is based on a fellowship program for visiting scholars from all over the world.

The Nobel Institute arranges meetings, seminars and lectures in addition to holding so-called Nobel Symposia, exchanges of views and information to which it invites distinguished specialists from many countries.

The institute has a staff of five, headed by Geir Lundestad, professor of history at the University of Oslo. Geir Lundestad (born in 1945) is a Norwegian historian and present Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Professor of the University of Oslo. ... Jump to: navigation, search The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo, in Latin Universitas Osloensis) was founded in 1811 as Universitas Regia Fredericiana (the Royal Frederick University, norwegian ), modelled after the recently established University of Berlin. ...

External links

The Norwegian Nobel Institute and the Norwegian Nobel Committee - official site

Category: Nobel Prize

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Norwegian Nobel Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (208 words)
	The Norwegian Nobel Institute was established in 1904 in Oslo (Kristiania), Norway.
	The principal duty of the Nobel Institute is to assist the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the task of selecting the recipient(s) of the Nobel Peace Prize and to organize the annual Nobel events in Oslo.
	The institute has a staff of five, headed by Geir Lundestad, professor of history at the University of Oslo.

The Norwegian Nobel Institute- Alfred Nobel, biography (484 words)
	Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 21 October 1833.
	Nobel took a keen interest in social questions, and is known to have held radical views on many contemporary problems.
	In January 1897 it was learned that he had left the bulk of his considerable estate to a fund, the interest on which was to be awarded annually to the persons whose work had been of the greatest benefit to mankind.

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