Hello & welcome to this weekend’s GK Nugget. The Nobel prizes have been announced this week and no prizes for guessing, but that’s the subject of this weekend’s nugget. Now we’ve all stayed abreast of the news and know that the Nobel Prize for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine & the Nobel Peace Prize have been announced. The Nobel Prize for Economics will be announced on Monday while the prize for Literature will be announced later. Here’s some trivia that you might not have been aware of, about these prestigious awards. The Nobel Prizes are named after Alfred Nobel , a Swedish entrepreneur, who was famous for inventing dynamite. As per his will, after his death in 1896 , his fortune was used to annually award individuals who have bestowed the greatest benefit on mankind . The Nobel Prizes were originally handed out in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine or Physiology, Literature & Peace but in 1968 Sweden's central bank ( Sveriges Riksbank ) establi...