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Nobel Prize medal

Gold medal given to recipients of Nobel Prizes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Nobel Prize medal is a gold medal given to recipients of the Nobel Prizes of Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics and Physiology or Medicine since 1901. The medal for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, given since 1968, is awarded with the aforementioned prizes.

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“Nobel Prize medal” enters the record as gold medal given to recipients of Nobel Prizes. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nobel, Prize and medal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nobel Prize medal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.