4 sentences with “prizes”

Under the terms of his will, upon Nobel's death in 1896, annual prizes were established in five fields.

Ironically enough, the founder of the prizes, inventor Alfred Nobel, helped bolster the very war effort he later hoped to annihilate.

As noted above, there were no second prizes. Greek culture was hugely competitive; the defeated were humiliated and the winners utterly triumphant.

This attitude was a microcosm of the attitude of Europeans towards most of the world at the time: foreign territories were prizes for the taking, the identities of the people who lived in them and the states that ruled them were of little consequence thanks to the (short-lived, as it turned out) superiority of European arms and technology.