The Nobel Prize Has Had a Few Controversies in Its 100+ Year History

It’s hard to argue that there’s an honor more prestigious than the Nobel Prize. The award was created by Swedish Industrialist Alfred Nobel to celebrate individual accomplishments that better humanity in the fields of literature, physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, and peace. The first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901, years after Nobel’s death.

Prestigious as it may be, there have been some pretty glaring decisions made by the committee over the years that have made people scratch their heads.