2008-11-13

How much money the Nobel Heritage

Nobel number of assets in the end, this is not even clear his Nobel. In accordance with Nobel's will, he should be all the assets into cash, which itself is a multinational involved in the enormous economic and legal work.

Sohlman, such as by the number of people in many countries go back and forth, and finally in 1900 for the Nobel legacy of cleaning up a preliminary outline.

Nobel countries in the transformation of assets into cash after one of the main list is as follows (this is a Nobel assets in cash in the process of transformation has been greatly devalued and discounted list):

Sweden 5,796,140.00
Norway 94,472.28
Germany 6,152,250.95
Austria 228,754.20
France 7,280,817.23
Scotland 3,913,938.67
England 3,904,235.32
Italy 630,410.10
Russia 5,232,773.45
Total: SEK 33,233,792.20

Heritage cash for the transformation of the total 33,233,792 SEK, about 9,200,000 U.S. dollars. At that time, not only is in now, the Nobel This is indeed a huge amount of heritage legacy.

According to the award of the Nobel Foundation statutes provide that a fund can be completely by one person, or by sharing an average of two or more persons. Among them, the Peace Prize can be awarded in addition to individuals, two or more persons, but also can be awarded to an organization and institutions. .

According to the Constitution provides that in addition to the annual winner will be awarded that year that the substantial amount of money, but also get a gold medal and a certificate of award. As the Nobel fund is a major change in the fund each year, its net income from the fund will be different every year, the annual amount of money each will be different. For example, the 1901 prize for the first time, the amount of prize money for each of about 15 million Swedish kroner, or about 42,000 U.S. dollars. Since then, as in bonds, stocks, real estate investment profits, continue to fund the Nobel accumulated value-added, the amount of money is increasing year by year. 80, the amount of money each to 100 million kronor. In the 90's, each have a larger increase in the amount of money. For example, each prize in 1993 for SEK 6,700,000, then the amount of approximately 840,000 U.S. dollars. In another example, in 1996 the prize money has increased each of the 7,400,000 Swedish kronor, this year about the amount of 1,120,000 U.S. dollars.

"Beijing Youth Daily" on December 10, 2001
Source: From: People's Network on February 25, 2003