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The competent Nobel committee will report on these nominations during October to its
corresponding corporation, which in turn will decide on the prize winners by the middle
of November. From this decision there is no appeal. And as has been stated, the dis-
tribution of prizes will take place December 10th.
The general public cannot name candidates, but provision is made whereby no
worthv man need escape. In the two sections of physical and chemical sciences, those
who may nominate are : members of certain Scandinavian learned bodies and professors
of those studies in certain native universities and schools; also the professors of six
foreign universities named each year by the Academy of Science; besides savants speci-
ally invited by the Academy, and former prize winners. This is an honor invested in
the prize winners of all sections.
The Nobel science institutes are really one, but are composed of two sections for
each of the two branches. The institute is to have scientific control of discoveries that
are proposed for prizes, and to encourage researches in the same fields. The two sections
will have suitable homes, with an assembly hall, archives room, library, etc., in common.
A general inspector with high powers of supervision is named by the king. Besides, the
Academy appoints a special director for each section. These men may be native or
foreign, so they be scientists of solid reputation, and especially well grounded in their
respective fields. They will have the title of professor, and are to give their time ex-
clusively to their positions. The special funds of the scientific Nobel institutes may be
employed as subsidies for prosecuting works in physics and chemistry. Preference is
to be given those works that have already proved worthy of being perfected by means of
this donation.
The rules for the other three sections are the same in their general outlines. But a
few special provisions should be mentioned. It is understood, for instance, that the
works submitted for the literary prize need not be purely literary. They may include
all works whose form and style entitle them to the distinction of literature. In this
section the right to present candidates belongs to members of the Swedish, French and
Spanish academies, as well as to literary sections of other academies and to literary insti-
tutions analogous to academies, to university professors of ethics, literature, and history,
and to former prize winners. The Nobel institute for literature will have a library
devoted especially to modern literature. Here the Swedish Academy will place in
charge an able literary man and corps of assistants to prepare questions relative to the
prize, to furnish reports on receipt of literary works from foreign countries, and to make
necessary translations of such.
As to the physiological and medical section, those who can present candidates are:
professors of the Carolin Institute; members of the medical section of the Royal Academy
of Science ; faculties of medicine of certain native universities ; faculties of six foreign
medical schools named each year by the Carolin Institute; savants invited by the
Academy of Science, and former prize winners. The Nobel committee appointed by the
Carolin Institute will decide which of the works submitted shall be specially examined
and will carry out the same. It is understood that any work must undergo this examination
before it can be given the prize. The decisions of the committee are received by
the Carolin Institute in April, and in May it may admit other works to the final contest.
In October it will decide who is the successful contestant, by secret ballot. Printed
works accompanying prize compositions are to be preserved in the Carolin Institute
library. The instruments submitted will remain in the same hands till they can be
transferred to the Nobel Medical Institute. The Nobel Institute is under the surveil-