Worth 8m kronor each, the Nobel prizes are always handed out on 10 December, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.
Each year the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, the Swedish Academy, and the Norwegian Nobel committee give a series of prizes established in the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
Not among the original prizes provided for by Alfred Nobel's will, the economic sciences gong has only been given out since 1969, and is sponsored by Sweden's central bank, the Sveriges Riksbank.
The nephew, Alfred Lakos, now 77, who lives in the US in Waleska, Georgia, said recently: "She was a hero, in my book".
Alfred Lakos's father, Laszlo, for example, was sent to a labour camp, from which he escaped, and survived.
The booklet, produced by ferry operator Wightlink, traces the island's history back to prehistoric times when dinosaurs roamed, through Roman occupation, visiting monarchs such as Queen Victoria and island residents such as Marconi, who made the first long-distance telegram from the island, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, whose bicentenary is celebrated this year.
Following the exile of Captain Alfred Dreyfus after his wrongful conviction for spying for Germany against France, his wife, Lucie, was portrayed as a bourgeois heroine, the epitome of the dutiful Victorian spouse.
Tom Rosenthal is the perfect choice to play crap-haired milquetoast Alfred the Great, thrust on to the throne after the deaths of all four of his elder brothers.
Its foreign affairs minister, Alfred Nzo, said yesterday that the rebels must be involved in talks.
But Professor Allen Cheng, the director of the infection prevention project at Alfred Health, described the strategy as "long overdue".
It concluded: "Disarmament figures prominently in Alfred Nobel's will.
