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Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel , who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. These prizes were first given in 1901. The ... Read more |
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Rudolf Mossbauer
Rudolf Mössbauer Nobel Prize-winning physicist Rudolf M Read more |
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Norman Foster Ramsey
Norman Foster Ramsey 1915-, American physicist, b. Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Columbia Univ., 1940. A physics professor at Harvard after 1950, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel... Read more |
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Richard Willstatter
Richard Willstätter A Nobel Prize winning chemist, Richard Willst Read more |
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Aage Niels Bohr
Aage Niels Bohr , 1922-, Danish physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Copenhagen, 1954. He worked with his father Niels Bohr (who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922) in the 1940s on the development of the atomic bomb and succeeded (1963) him as director of the Niels Bohr Institute of Theoretical Physics.... Read more |
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Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch , 1867-1961, American economist and sociologist, b. Jamaica Plain, Mass., grad. Bryn Mawr, 1889. She taught at Wellesley College until her dismissal (1918) for opposing U.S. involvement in World War I. Co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom with Jane ... Read more |
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Robert Burns Woodward
Woodward, Robert Burns (1917–1979) US organic chemist who worked at Harvard. He is remembered for his work in organic synthesis, producing many organic compounds including quinine, cholesterol, cortisone, lysergic acid, strychnine, chlorophyll, and vitamin B12. In 1965 he formulated the... Read more |
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Frank B. Kellogg
KELLOGG, FRANK BILLINGS Frank Billings Kellogg (1856–1937) emerged out of poverty and hardship to achieve a career as U.S. Secretary of State and a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1929. Though Kellogg began his professional life as an awkward legal representative of some of the... Read more |
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Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk , 1895-1964, German chemist and pathologist. A teacher successively at the universities of Greifswald and Münster, he became (1927) director of research at the I. G. Farbenindustrie laboratory at Wuppertal. Because of a Nazi decree he was obliged to decline the 1939 Nobel Prize... Read more |
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John Bardeen
John Bardeen , 1908-91, American physicist, b. Madison, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin (B.S. 1928, M.S. 1929), Ph.D. Princeton, 1936. He was a research physicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1945 to 1951. In 1951 he became professor of electrical engineering and physics at the Univ. of... Read more |
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Ig Nobel Prizes a Mouthful of Fun
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