The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace on December 10, 1901. The ceremony came on the fifth anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other high explosives.
Most of us today can name very few, if any, of previous winners; the exception being the more recent co-receivers of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler and Dr. Sheldon Cooper. The married couple solved one of the great mysteries of the universe when their innovative research proved String Theory. In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings.
To put it simply it is the fact that if you try and pull off, rather than cut with a scissors, a loose string on any garment it will lead to the eventual unravelling of that garment.