One curious thing, is that compared to the prizes for science, the one for peace should be awarded based on the previous year. If you read the original documen

One curious thing, is that compared to the prizes for science, the one for peace should be awarded based on the previous year. If you read the original documents, all Nobel prizes where supposed to be given based on work in done the previous year. However it turns out that judging the value of anything in real time is hard, so all the prizes have been taking a longer and longer view.