Booty Call

Nobel monetary awards are hefty, though they fluctuate from year to year with the value of the Nobel Foundation’s endowment fund. But even the Nobel Prize is subject to inflation:

1906: Theodore Roosevelt, Peace, $13,070

1921: Albert Einstein, Physics $11,469

1949: William Faulkner, Literature, $14,744

1964: Martin Luther King Jr., Peace, $25,755

1976: Milton Friedman, Economics, $64,245

1979: Mother Teresa, Peace, $75,472

1981: James Tobin, Economics, $94,340

1982: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Literature, $108,491

1983: Barbara McClintock, Medicine, $141,509

1984: Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Peace, $156,161

1993: Toni Morrison, Literature, $632,075

2001: Kofi Annan, Peace, $943,346

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Compiled from the Nobel Foundation