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.
"I'm not a marketer I'm more of an inventor.
But that is the given name of the inventor of Bitcoin, the digital currency that has gone from a nerd's delight in 2009 to something taken seriously by central bankers in 2013, and whose notional value passed $1,000 a "coin" in November.
As the physicist and inventor Leo Szilard once remarked: "This is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind".
Pillay, the first non-white woman to serve as a high-court judge in South Africa, made the comments in an interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee on a special edition of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, which the inventor of the world wide web was guest editing.
In Italy, Spero, who has died aged 83 of respiratory complications, discovered the vigour and immediacy of ancient Etruscan art; in Paris, where she and Golub settled in 1959, she discovered the troubled art and writings of the manic-depressive artist and inventor of the so-called theatre of cruelty, Antonin Artaud.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has led recent calls for a Magna Carta for the internet.
Watch the clip on YouTube Locksmith and inventor Gwildor unwittingly sets off a chain of events in Masters of the Universe which results in He-Man, Skeletor and co arriving on Earth.
The idea that an English elite was the rightful possessor of the language and governed its proper use was powerful enough to haunt even James Joyce, arguably the greatest re-inventor of English since Shakespeare.
At different points in his life, Duchamp was the following: professional chess player, self-publisher, painter, volunteer for military service, art dealer, gambler, inventor, librarian, secretary to a French war mission in the second world war.
After finding a story big enough to contain a billionaire playboy inventor, a defrosted second world war super-soldier, a Norse god and a scientist with anger-management issues, what's the next challenge for the "Marvel Cinematic Universe"?
