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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
...Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–96...distributed in annual prizes for the most...discoveries in physics, chemistry, and...nations’ (the Nobel Peace Prize), and to the...tendency’.For a list of Nobel ... |
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List of recent winners of Nobel prize in physics
List of recent winners of Nobel prize in physics EDS: Repeats to fix the headline...awarded here Tuesday this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Following is a list of the ... |
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List of recent winners of the Nobel prize for physics
List of recent winners of the Nobel prize for physics STOCKHOLM, Oct. 9 (Xinhua...Grunberg of Germany won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for the...magnetoresistance.The following is a ... |
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(embargoed) List of recent winners of Nobel prize in physics
(embargoed) List of recent winners of Nobel prize in physics STOCKHOLM, Oct. 8 (Xinhua...awarded here Tuesday this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Following is a list of the ... |
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List of Recent Nobel Physics Winners
The Associated Press AP Online 10-09-2001 List of Recent Nobel Physics Winners Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics: -- 2001: Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman, United States; and ... |
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Science: Four men who shook the world They are the Oscars of science. This...
...was Gunter Blobel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...research," says the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska...aim of gene therapy. Physics GERARDUS 'T HOOFT MARTINUS...energies. This year's Nobel ... |
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List of the winners of the 2004 Nobel Prizes
...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...Jelinek received the Nobel Prize in literature...the ... |
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Secretariat plan in quest to put Malaysians on Nobel Prize winners' list
...Malaysians on Nobel Prize winners' listByline...Malaysians on the Nobel Prize winners' list by 2020. Speaking...announcement of the Nobel Prize Centennial...entitled the ... |
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DOE-Supported Physicists are Co-Winners of 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
...Gross for winning the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics," said Secretary of Energy...remarkably long and distinguished list of Nobel Prize winners supported by DOE." Dr. Raymond...The award of this year's ... |
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Backgrounder: Recent winners of Nobel Prize in physics
Backgrounder: Recent winners of Nobel Prize in physics STOCKHOLM, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- The following is a list of winners of the Nobel Prize in physics since 2000: 2009: Charles ... |
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Backgrounder: Latest winners of Nobel Prize in Physics
Backgrounder: Latest winners of Nobel Prize in Physics STOCKHOLM, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The following is a list of winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics since 2001: 2011: Saul ... |
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