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The story of the Nobel Prizes and of the people who have won them has a peculiar interest about it in our own time, not least because at the end of our own century - the century of the Nobel Prize-winners - the world will enter a new millennium. Such a conjunction 1,000 years ago created both interest and concern. How will our century be related not only to the next century, but to the next millennium? To what extent are the Nobel Prize-winners, outstanding in their own generation, pointing the way? Ours has been the only century when it has been possible for a book to appear with the title Tomorrow is Already Here.
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The Nobel Channel site gives users information about the Alfred Nobel and the winners of past Nobel Prizes. Not every Nobel winner is represented here, but there are several completed profiles that represent a range of periods and disciplines. Each section contains a timeline and narrative of events leading to the achievement that was honored, profiles of the winners, and a short video presentation explaining the importance of their work. The site gives a biography of Nobel himself as well.