TheNobel Monument is an obelisk in honor of U.S. Nobel laureates, located just northwest of theAmerican Museum of Natural History inTheodore Roosevelt Park on theUpper West Side ofManhattan, New York City. The names of U.S. laureates of theNobel Prize are engraved on its western, southern, and eastern sides, and the name and image ofAlfred Nobel on the north side. It is the only monument in a New York City park which bears the names of living people.[1]
The monument was originally planned to be installed in front of the New York State Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt on the east side of the museum, but it was relocated due to opposition.[2] The monument was dedicated in 2003.[3] The west side of the monument lists Nobel laureates up to 1979, the south side continues the list through 2010, and the east side lists the laureates starting in 2011 (as can be seen in the photos in the gallery of images below, although as of November 2023 and since at least August 2019 the website of the New York City Department of Parks has incorrectly stated that the south side lists the names from 1980 to the present).[3]
The monument lists only those laureates who were U.S. citizens when they won the Nobel, so it includes naturalized immigrants such as authorIsaac Bashevis Singer and chemistRoald Hoffman but has neither U.S. nativeT. S. Eliot, who was a naturalized British subject when he won, norAlbert Einstein, who only became a U.S. citizen years after winning. In addition to individuals it also names theAmerican Friends Service Committee (AFSC), aQuaker organization based in the US, which won theNobel Peace Prize (the only Nobel that groups as well as individuals can win) in 1947; the AFSC's name can be seen in the photograph below of the west side of the monument.
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