(SeaPRwire) –   Hadiah Nobel tidak boleh ditukarkan. Tetapi hal itu tidak menghentikan beberapa penerima atau ahli keluarga mereka daripada menderma, menjual, atau — dalam beberapa kes — cuba dan gagal menjual pingat mereka selama bertahun-tahun.

Pemimpin oposisi Venezuela María Corina Machado menjadi penerima terbaru anugerah berprestij itu yang menyertai senarai itu pada hari Khamis, kepada Presiden Donald Trump semasa bertemu dengannya di Istana Putih selepas tentera AS Presiden Venezuela Nicolás Maduro.

Machado Fox News bahawa dia memberikan pingat itu kepada Trump, yang telah lama menginginkan Anugerah Damai dan secara terbuka berkempen untuk mendapatkannya sebelum ia dianugerahkan kepada pemimpin oposisi Venezuela pada Disember, kerana “dia layak mendapatnya.”

“Saya memutuskan untuk menyerahkan pingat Anugerah Damai Nobel itu atas nama rakyat Venezuela,” katanya.

Tindakan itu telah menarik kritikan daripada sesetengah di Norway, tempat anugerah itu dianugerahkan. Jawatankuasa Nobel itu sendiri telah menjelaskan bahawa “Anugerah Nobel dan pencapaiannya tidak dapat dipisahkan.”

“Tak kira apa yang akan berlaku kepada pingat, ijazah, atau wang hadiah, adalah dan kekal penerima asal yang direkodkan dalam sejarah sebagai penerima anugerah itu,” kata Jawatankuasa Nobel dalam pengumuman media Jumaat yang disiarkan pada masa yang tepat. “Walaupun pingat atau ijazah itu kemudiannya berada dalam milik orang lain, ini tidak mengubah siapa yang telah dianugerahkan Anugerah Damai Nobel.”

Ini adalah beberapa penerima anugerah Nobel lain yang terkenal yang telah memutuskan untuk tidak menyimpan pingat mereka — dan apa yang mereka lakukan dengan pingat itu, atau cuba lakukan.

Dmitry Muratov (Damai)

Ahli wartawan Rusia itu memenangi Anugerah Damai Nobel pada tahun 2021 untuk berjuang untuk kebebasan pers dan berdiri lawan pihak berkuasa Rusia.

Dia menjual pingatnya pada tahun berikutnya di lelongan dengan harga $103.5 juta, yang dia berikan kepada dana UNICEF untuk kanak-kanak pelarian Ukrain. Ini adalah harga terbesar yang pernah dibayar untuk pingat Anugerah Nobel.

Kofi Annan (Damai)

Former secretary-general of the United Nations was a co-recipient of the Peace prize in 2001. He was given the honor for his prioritization of human rights and for “his commitment to the struggle to contain the spreading of the HIV virus in Africa and his declared opposition to international terrorism,” according to the Nobel Foundation.

Following Annan’s death in 2018, his widow, Nane Annan, donated his medal in 2024 to the United Nations’ office in Geneva so that, she said, his legacy could continue inspiring future generations. The medal remains on permanent display there.

Christian Lous Lange (Damai)

Lange, the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Norway, received the honor in 1921 along with the Swede Hjalmar Branting for what the committee as “their lifelong contributions to the cause of peace and organized internationalism.”

Both Lange and Branting “wanted to strengthen the new world organization the League of Nations,” according to the Nobel Foundation. Branting was Sweden’s Prime Minister at the time they were awarded the prize, while Lange became secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union—an international organization of national parliaments—in 1909 and managed the organization through the first World War. Lange later went on to become a member of the Nobel Committee in 1934.

Keluarga Lange telah meminjamkan anugerah itu kepada Pusat Damai Nobel di Oslo, tempat ia berada sejak tahun 2005. Ia adalah satu-satunya anugerah Damai asal yang dipamerkan secara kekal di Norway.

Carlos Saavedra Lamas (Damai)

The foreign minister of Argentina received the Peace prize in 1936 for his part in ending the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay. His medal was sold at auction for $1.1 million to a private Asian buyer. The estate of another private collector in New York, who had owned it for roughly a decade, made the sale.

James Watson and Francis Crick (Perubatan)

Watson and Crick, bersama dengan Maurice Wilkins, telah dianugerahkan anugerah Perubatan pada tahun 1962 untuk menemui struktur heliks ganda DNA pada tahun 1953, kejayaan yang telah mendorong bidang biologi molekul.

The medal awarded to Crick, who died in 2004, was sold at auction by his heirs for $2 million in 2013 to Shanghai biotech executive Jack Wang.

Watson menjual pingatnya pada tahun berikutnya dengan harga $4.76 juta kepada billionaire Rusia Alisher Usmanov, yang kemudiannya menyerahkan anugerah itu kembali kepada penerima. Watson meninggal dunia pada tahun lalu pada 6 November.

William Faulkner (Sastera)

The author, known for modernist Southern Gothic classics including The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, won the Literature prize in 1949 for what the committee described as “his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.” His medal went up for auction in 2016, but failed to sell: Bidding came to a stop at $425,000, failing to reach the minimum bid.

Knut Hamsun (Sastera)

The current location of Hamsun’s medal is unknown. The winner of the 1920 Literature prize—a Norwegian writer who received the award for Growth of the Soil, a 1917 novel that tells the story of a man settling and cultivating a farm in rural Norway that the Nobel committee called a “monumental work”—sold his medal to German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels as a gesture of thanks after meeting with him in 1943.

Leon Lederman (Fizik)

Lederman, who was a co-recipient of the Physics prize in 1988 for the discovery of a second type of neutrino, sold his medal in 2015 for $765,002 to cover medical expenses to treat his dementia.

David Thouless (Fizik)

Thouless won the Physics prize in 2016 alongside two other British scientists for using a branch of mathematics known as topology to explain what happens when matter changes phases. His family donated the medal to Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge, where it is displayed for students.