A reward is a value given to a person or group of people for any achievement. It can be a prize, insignia, certificates, valuable gifts. For example, the Nobel Prize, Linnaeus Medal. There are anti-prizes that are awarded for ridiculous or stupid actions.
Honorary awards
The Nobel Prize is an international prize awarded for worthy discoveries in science. The founder is Alfred Nobel. He bequeathed to divide all his savings into five equal parts, which will be assigned to people for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine, in literature, as well as for the establishment of world peace. It is noteworthy that the Nobel Prize is not awarded to those who excel in mathematics.
The International Biology Prize is given by the Japanese Society for the Advancement of Science and is awarded every year and on behalf of the Japanese Emperor.
The Wolf Prize is awarded to outstanding chemists, physicists, mathematicians, physicians and in the category for achievements in the arts and agricultural development.
The Sakurai Prize is the American Physics Society's international award for discoveries in physics.
The Fields Prize is awarded to young mathematicians.
The Harvey Prize recognizes achievements in the humanities, health sciences, and life sciences. Lina Harvey became the founder of the fund.
The Lasker Prize is the Medical Science Prize. It is awarded to medical practitioners, medical scientists, and people who promote health care.
The Grammy is a famous music award. Among other awards in the field of music, the most prestigious are the American Music Award, MTV Europe Music Awards, Ernst von Siemens Award, Golden Gramophone. TEFFI is a well-known Russian award given for contributions to television. Oscar - award for directing and acting.
The Hasselblad Prize is a monetary award for talented photographers.
The Brewster Medal is an award for contributions to ornithology. It has existed since 1921.
The Fields Medal is awarded in conjunction with the Fields Medal.
Anti-grades
The Shnobel Prize is an award given for funny, unnecessary, but witty inventions. The founder of the award is M. Abrahams in 1991.
The Darwin Prize is awarded only to those people who died an absurd death without having children. Thus, they did not leave their worthless genes in the gene pool of humanity.
Golden Raspberry is the opposite of Oscar. Golden Raspberry laureates become the worst directors and actors.
The paragraph is a Russian anti-award for violation of modern standards of book publishing. Another national anti-award is the Silver Galosh. Its name comes from the phrase "to sit in a galosh", that is, to be disgraced. Galosha is awarded to representatives of show business who wanted to achieve fame in ridiculous and funny ways.
