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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Hjalmar Bergman
Bergman, Hjalmar Frederik (1883–1931), Swedish dramatist and novelist, one of the most influential in the Swedish theatre after the death of Strindberg, who, with Maeterlinck and Ibsen, had a great influence on Bergman's early work. He first came into prominence with two one-act... Read more |
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Nobel Prizes
...of Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–96), a...distributed in annual prizes for the most important...nations’ (the Nobel Peace Prize), and to the ‘person...tendency’.For a list of Nobel Prize for ... |
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Nobel peace prize is little better than an Oscar: Mohamed ElBaradei joins a...
...Committee award its peace prize to genuine risk-taking...grandees and wish for peace. Mr. ElBaradei...a three-time winner--and nearly a dozen...Since 1901, the list of Nobel Peace Prize ... |
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A list of winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
The Associated Press AP Worldstream 12-10-2005 Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:_ 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt, and the International Atomic Energy Agency._ 2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya... |
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List of Nobel Peace Prize winners.
List of Nobel Peace Prize winners: 2009 -- Barack Obama, United States...States; Le Duc Tho, Vietnam 1972 -- No prize awarded 1971 -- Willy Brandt, Germany...Austria 1910 -- Permanent International Peace ... |
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List of Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1980
Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980: ___ _ 2008: Martti Ahtisaari _ 2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore _ 2006: Muhammad Yunus... |
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A list of Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1980
Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980: ___ _ 2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore _ 2006: Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank _ 2005... |
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List of recent Nobel Peace Prize winners
Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980:___— 2010: Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.— 2009: U.S. President Barack Obama— 2008: Martti Ahtisaari... |
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List of the winners of the 2004 Nobel Prizes
...Worldstream 12-10-2004 A list of the recipients of the 2004 Nobel Prizes._ Kenyan Wangari Maathai received the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in promoting...Elfriede Jelinek received the Nobel ... |
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Hot names like Al Gore on Nobel peace winner list
...seen as possible winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, as the nomination...flowing in to the Nobel Institute in Oslo...head of the Oslo Peace Research Institute...lipped about the list of candidates...this ... |
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Nobel Selects Peace Prize Winner
...no hint of the winner. Committee secretary...his country to peace. Stein Toennesson...International Peace Research Institute...seen as unlikely winners in the wake of...impossible." "The Nobel Peace Prize ... |
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Stay True To Yourself, Advises Previous Woman Winner Of Nobel Peace Prize
...the Nobel Peace Prize, Jody Williams...joined other female Nobel winners and peace advocates in New...associated with the Nobel Women[superset...democracy and lasting peace in the world ... |
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