This is the tale of one John Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

The first three of these prizes are awarded for eminence in physical science, in chemistry and in medical science or physiology ; the fourth is for literary work " in an ideal direction " and the fifth prize is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses.

There is no prize awarded for mathematics, but see Abel Prize.

The formulation for the literary prize being given for a work " in an ideal direction " ( in Swedish ), is cryptic and has caused much confusion.

He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416.

An Andrei Sakharov prize is also to be awarded by the American Physical Society every second year from 2006, " to recognize outstanding leadership and / or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights ".

Boxing ( pugilism, prize fighting, the sweet science or in Greek pygmachia ) is a martial art and combat sport in which two people engage in a contest of strength, reflexes, and endurance by throwing punches at an opponent with the goal of a knockout with gloved hands.

In order to win the final cash prize, all the contestants have to do is survive periodic evictions and be the last one standing.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success ; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

An example for look-ahead solvers is march_dl, which won a prize at the 2007 SAT competition.

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute to carry a US $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

The revised bet is still open, the prize being " clothing to cover the winner's nakedness ".

The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.

The prize, administered by the Dylan Thomas Centre, is awarded at the annual Swansea Bay Film Festival.

With a cash prize of three million euros it is the most highly endowed German cultural award.

The annual $ 25, 000 prize is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale.

Hayek is the second-most frequently cited economist ( after Kenneth Arrow ) in the Nobel lectures of the prize winners in economics, particularly since his lecture was critical of the field of orthodox economics and neo-classical modelization.

In presenting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934, Professor I. Holmgren of the Nobel committee observed that " Of the three prize winners, it was Whipple who first occupied himself with the investigations for which the prize is now awarded.

In contrast, the Deutscher Spiele Preis (" German game prize ") is often awarded to games that are more complex and strategic, such as Puerto Rico.

The prize was established in 1981 by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union IMU and named to honour the Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna who had died a year earlier.

The O. Henry Award is a prestigious annual prize named after Porter and given to outstanding short stories.

The races were named according to their original prize funds ( a guinea amounted to 21 shillings, or £ 1. 05 ).

Following the merger, the university was named Sunday Times University of the Year in 2006 after winning the inaugural Times Higher Education Supplement University of the Year prize in 2005 .< ref >

The Draper prize is named for Charles Stark Draper, the " father of inertial navigation ", an MIT professor and founder of Draper Laboratory.

The Flannery O ' Connor Award for Short Fiction, named in honor of O ' Connor by the University of Georgia Press, is a prize given annually to an outstanding collection of short stories.

However, managers in Japan embraced their ideas enthusiastically and even named their premier annual prize for manufacturing excellence after Deming.

The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50.

The prize is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel ( 1802 – 1829 ).

Rushdie achieved fame with Midnight's Children 1981, which was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Booker prize, and named Booker of Bookers in 1993.

The prize is named in honor of science fiction editor and writer John W. Campbell, whose science fiction writing and role as editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact made him one of the most influential editors in the early history of science fiction.

* Sikorsky Prize – A prize for human powered helicopters named in his honor.

In the competition for the gold medal of the Academy in 1772, Flaxman was defeated, the prize being awarded by the president, Sir Joshua Reynolds, to a competitor named Engleheart.

This is the older prize awarded by the Academy, named after Carl Linnaeus: the prize was instituted upon a donation by Linnaeus widow, Sara E. Linnaeus, on 8 September 1803.

This is the most prestigious prize awarded by the Academy, named after Anders Celsius.

It is a prize, awarded yearly, named after Erik Benzelius the younger, instituted in 1980 and entirely founded by the Academy: it is meant as a grant to young researchers.

The prize is named after Antoni Grabowski.

" Nonetheless, in 1969 the Modern Language Association established a prize named after Lowell, awarded annually for " an outstanding literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography.

It is named after Louis Néel ( 1904 – 2000 ), who received the 1970 Nobel prize in physics for his work in the area.

He was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1943, and Pulitzer prize winning sports writer Ira Berkow wrote that Luckman was " the first great T-formation quarterback ".

This prize, named after the two creators of object technology, is awarded annually to a senior and a junior researchers who have made significant technical contributions to the field of Object Orientation.

The prize is named to commemorate the energetic work of Bart Bok in promoting the undergraduate and graduate study of astronomy in Australia, during his term as Director of the Mount Stromlo Observatory.

* Bambi Awards, an international television and media prize, named for the novel's titular character and featuring fawn-shaped statuettes

The prize winning Māori author, Keri Hulme, named her best known novel as The Bone People: a title linked directly to the dual meaning of the word ' iwi as both ' bone ' and ' people '.