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For information about the institutions awarding the different Nobel Prizes, here are the direct links to their English Web pages. The Nobel Foundation The main Internet resource on Alfred Nobel and on the history of the Prize, with a searchable database on all the Laureates. http://www.nobel.se The Swedish Academy Awards the prize in Literature. http://logos.svenska.gu.se/academy.html The Royal Academy of Sciences (Sweden) Awards the prize in Physics and in Chemistry, and the Bank of Sweden prize in Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel. http://www.kva.se/eng/index.html The Norwegian Nobel Committee Awards the prize for Peace. http://www.nobel.no/indexen.html Hot Air The editors of the Annals of Improbable Research are well-known scientists, some being Nobel Laureates themselves, who assign yearly Ig Nobel Prizes to sloppy science. http://www.improb.com