In 1895, this will by Alfred Nobel cre­at­ed the Nobel Prizes. One page worth read­ing, with this core paragraph: “The whole of my remain­ing real­iz­able estate shall be dealt with in the fol­low­ing way: the cap­i­tal, invest­ed in safe secu­ri­ties by my execu­tors, shall con­sti­tute a fund, the inter­est on which shall be annu­al­ly dis­trib­uted…