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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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Richard Willstatter
Richard Willstätter A Nobel Prize winning chemist, Richard Willst 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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Richard Zsigmondy
ZSIGMONDY, RICHARD ADOLF(b. Vienna Austria, 1 April 1865;d. Göttingen, Germany, 24 September 1929)colloidal chemistry.Zsigmondy was a figure of paramount importance on colloid chemistry during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1925, for invention of the... Read more |
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Prize Courts
PRIZE COURTS PRIZE COURTS derive their name from their function, which is to pass on the validity and disposition of "prizes," a term referring to the seizure of a ship or its cargo by the maritime, not the land, forces of a belligerent. Jurisdictional pronouncements of prize courts have expanded... Read more |
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Ivan Pavlov
Pavlov, Ivan 1849-1936 PAVLOV’S LIFE PAVLOV’S WORK BIBLIOGRAPHY Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, received a Nobel Prize for his experimental studies of the interactions of gastrointestinal secretions with the activities of the pancreas and.... Read more |
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Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet and educator. Her poetry earned her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945. Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcaya on April 6, 1889, at Vicu Read more |
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Frederick Sanger
Frederick Sanger , 1918-, British biochemist, grad. Cambridge (B.A., 1939; Ph.D., 1943). He continued his research at Cambridge after 1943. He won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies on insulin, accomplishing the first determination of the amino acid sequence (primary structure) of a... Read more |
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Prospect theory
Prospect Theory BIBLIOGRAPHY Prospect theory is a psychologically-based framework that describes the mental processes involved when an individual makes a choice among uncertain prospects. In the 1970s Israeli-born psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (1937-1996) developed prospect... Read more |
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Behind the veil with a Nobel Prize winner.(OPINION)
...Muslim society better than Shirin Ebadi...winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the dark horse...out an aging Pope John Paul II...appear in public without such covering...broadly, and took off her veil, inviting...can I take mine ... |
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Deals will send him storming up the leaderboard of sporting millionaires. And...
...after his play-off victory - but...sustained run of good performances...and as he plays better, his money increases...sportsmen plus The Pope and The Nobel Prize. They will ensure...with wife Marian without ... |
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Queen of Italy in a lab coat: Nobel Prize-winning scientist revisits her...
...s book "Nobel Prize Women in Science...awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine...cheek, and Pope John Paul II...Garden of Eden _ without the snake...years working off and on here...Montalcini won the ... |
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Queen of Italy in a lab coat: Nobel Prize-winning scientist revisits her...
...s book "Nobel Prize Women in Science...awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine...cheek, and Pope John Paul II...Garden of Eden _ without the snake...years working off and on here...Montalcini won the ... |
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Nobel Prize winner works to reform giant lecture classes
...student population without compromising quality...thing. At their best, giant classes...way to get the best teachers in front...who won the 2001 Nobel Prize as a physicist...and are turned off. Charismatic lecturers get ... |
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Pope John Paul II sick but still firmly in charge.(Main News)
...Reuters) - Pope John Paul...out on the Nobel Peace Prize earlier in...Norway's Nobel Committee...said. The pope opposed the...that men of good will help...to parish without alerting the...the workload ... |
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The Human Life Foundation's Great Defender of Life Dinner October 17, 2003
...trepidation. A good idea, we...Review, led off and kept the...the great Pope, Sixtus the...October 17, the Nobel Peace Prize was given...There's one Nobel Peace Prize...got her the Nobel ... |
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Our obsession with scandal leaves world laughing at us.
...when times were good, we had to...kinder? Are we a better people for having...our country a better place? There...market and the Nobel Prizes and the pope's trip to...The alarm goes off and the ... |
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Signature barriers stymie third parties
...recently kicked off petitioning...Illinois Peace prize to pope In an unprecedented...decision, the Nobel committee should...peace prize to Pope John Paul II...in the face without feeling shame...will take, ... |
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
...nominated for best original song...can pull it off."In other...Anthony kicks off tourDon't...singer will kick off his tour in...To Love Without Lies).The...Bono in good companyU2 singer...for the 2005 Nobel ... |
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