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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
The statutes of the Nobel Foundation, as also special rules
concerning the distribution of the prizes, have been ratified by the
Government on June 29, 1900.
In accordance with these, the four above mentioned institutions, as
distributors of the prizes, shall appoint, for two years at a time, fifteen Delegates,
the Academy of Sciences electing six, the other awarding bodies each electing
three. The delegates, with whom decision rests concerning reports of audit,
for two years running appoint four members of the Board of the Foundation,
who shall meet in Stockholm and consist of Swedes; a fifth member, who is
chairman of the Board, is nominated by Government. The Board, which from
its members shall elect a Managing Director, administers the funds and other
moneys of the foundation, as also other property belonging to the foundation in
so far as it is common to the prize-groups.
For every Swedish prize-group the due authorities who are to distribute the
prizes nominate a so-called Nobel Committee, consisting of three or five
persons, who are to give their opinion anent the distribution of the prize.
The corresponding deliberations anent the distribution of the peace prize shall be
undertaken by the Nobel Committee appointed by the Storthing. To be chosen
member of a Swedish Nobel Committee, it is not necessary to be a Swedish
subject, or that the individual elected be a member of the special institution
distributing the prize. In the Norwegian Nobel Committee other than Norwegians
may also be members. — Where so be deemed necessary, the distributors may
appoint an expert or specialist to take part as a member in a Committee.
As aids in the necessary preliminaries, as also otherwise to advance the
objects of the foundation, the authorities who have to distribute the prizes, may
establish scientific institutions and other organizations, which shall be called Nobel
Institutes. Foreigners, male or female, may be appointed at these Institutes.
Should the distributors of the prizes consider it advisable, the Nobel Institutes
shall all be within the same precincts and similarly organized.
The prizes are distributed annually (for the first time 1901) on the
high-day of the Foundation, i. e. December 10 (the anniversary of the testator’s
death). To become a candidate for one of these prizes, it is necessary to be
proposed in writing by a person competent thereto. (Applications for receiving
a prize, made by the author himself are not considered). The right.of proposing a
candidate for a prize is held both by Swedish and foreign champions of culture
in accordance with minute instructions issued by the corporations charged with
adjusting the prizes. — The proposal of a candidate should be accompanied by
those works and other documents that are cited. The prize-receiver, if possible,
within six months of being awarded the prize on December 10, shall in Stockholm
(as regards the prize for peace, in Christiania) give a public lecture on the work
having gained the prize. — No work shall be given a prize, unless by experience
or expert examination it be deemed of such pre-eminent importance as is plainly
indicated by the will. Should no work under consideration be deemed worthy of
the prize, the money shall be reserved to the following year. As regards what is
to be done, if the prize cannot then be awarded, see below. Within each
prize-group, however, the prize must be awarded at least once in every five-year period.
— The amount of a prize can be divided between two works. If two or more
persons have together produced a work, to which a prize is awarded, the prize is
given to all participants in common. Every awarding body has a right to decide
the respective prize to be conferred also to institutions and associations.
From the funds of the donation, at the commencement of its activity,
a sufficient sum for premises for the due administration of the foundation is
taken, as also for each group of prizes the sum of 300,000 kronor, for the
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