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Henrik Pontoppidan Henrik Pontoppidan
Henrik Pontoppidan Novelist Henrik Pontoppidan (1857–1943) is considered Denmark's foremost prose author. The Nobel Prize winner earned recognition for his exceptionally accurate portrayals of his native Denmark—contributing three epic novel cycles and a set of memoirs that helped... Read more
James Tobin James Tobin
Tobin, James 1918–2002 BIBLIOGRAPHY James Tobin, winner of the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, was among the leaders of postwar economics, with several significant contributions that now bear his name. Tobin was born in 1918 in Champaign, Illinois. Educated in economics at... Read more
Grazia Deledda Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda A very popular writer in Italy in her time, Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) was a practitioner of Italian verismo or "realist" fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as well as a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The setting for Deledda's novels and... Read more
Mother Teresa Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa 1910-97, Roman Catholic missionary in India, winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, b. Skopje (now in Macedonia) as Agnes Goxha Bojaxhiu. Of Albanian parentage, she went to India at 17, becoming a nun and teaching school in Calcutta (now Kolkata). In 1948 she left the convent and... Read more
Leo Esaki Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki Leo Esaki (born 1925) was one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973. Esaki was honored for his 1957 pioneering work in electron tunneling in semiconducting materials, which led to his creation of the Esaki diode, or tunnel diode. This technology helped advance research... Read more
Oe Kenzaburo Oe Kenzaburo
Kenzaburo Oe Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe (born 1935) is considered the leading contemporary writer in his language. A 1994 Nobel Prize winner in literature for a body of work that often makes reference to his developmentally disabled son Hikari, Oe has also been a vociferous critic of modern... Read more
Amartya Sen Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (born 1933) is the 1998 Nobel prize-winner in economics. He is a well-known economic theorist whose works link ethical questions with economic issues. Jeffrey Sachs wrote in Time, "In a lifetime of careful scholarship, Sen has repeatedly returned to a basic... Read more
Henry Kissinger Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger (born 1923) was secretary of state during the second Nixon administration and the Ford administration, chief of the National Security Council (1969-1973), professor at Harvard University (1952-1969), and co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (with Le Duc... Read more
Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven
ALFVéN, HANNES OLOF GOSTA(b. Norrkorping, Sweden, 30 May 1908; d. Stockholm, Sweden, 2 April 1995)physics, plasma state of matter, magnetohydrodynamics, plasma cosmogony, plasma cosmology.Alfvén, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics, is acknowledged as one of the greatest creative and intuitive... Read more
Sir John Carew Eccles Sir John Carew Eccles
Sir John Carew Eccles , 1903-97, Australian neurophysiologist. He was educated at the Univ. of Melbourne and at Magdalene College, Oxford. He was director (1937-44) of the Kanematsu Research Institute of Sydney Hospital and taught at the Univ. of Otago in New Zealand and at the Australian National... Read more

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Nobel callings // The university's ranks yield 61 winners of the prestigious...
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Sixty-one Nobel Prize winners have been University of Chicago students...members or researchers. The U. of C. Nobel laureates (with the eight current...with Henrik Carl Peter Dam Sir John Carew Eccles, Physiology or Medicine, 1963...

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