Nobel Prize Medal - Design, Symbolism, and History #3651246 (License: Personal Use)

The obverse displays a left-facing bust of Alfred Nobel with his birth and death years (MDCCCXXXIII-MDCCCXCV) inscribed in Roman numerals. The reverse depicts the Latin inscription “Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes” (“And they who bettered life by new found mastery”), showing Nature unveiling her face to Science, with the goddess holding a cornucopia and a veil, while Science holds a book. The design was created by Swedish sculptor Erik Lindberg in 1902 and has been used for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature prizes since 1902.

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