"This is the official site of the Nobel Foundation which awards prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. This site includes a list of all winners from 1901 to date (plus a searchable database), biographical information on the awardees, information on the selection process for all six of the Nobel prize awarding institutions/areas, history behind the prizes, and more. Information on the recipients can include a biographical summary, bibliography and presentation speech as well as graphics of the various Nobel stamps issued by the Swedish Post Office."--"Best Free Reference Web Sites 1999." RUSA Quarterly, Fall 1999; reviewed Feb. 24, 1999.