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Rudolf Mossbauer
Rudolf Mössbauer Nobel Prize-winning physicist Rudolf M Read more |
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Carlos Romulo
Carlos P. Rómulo Carlos P. Romulo (1899-1985) was an author and the foremost diplomat of the Philippines. He was the only Filipino journalist to win the Pulitzer Prize and... Read more |
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Richard Willstatter
Richard Willstätter A Nobel Prize winning chemist, Richard Willst Read more |
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi , 1945-, Burmese political leader; grad. Oxford Univ. The daughter of assassinated (1947) nationalist general U Aung San, who is regarded as the founder of modern Myanmar, she lived outside the country after 1960. Returning in 1988 to care for her dying mother, she joined the... Read more |
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Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Year Recipient(s) 1969 Ragnar Frisch Jan Tinbergen 1970 Paul A. Samuelson 1971 Simon Kuznets 1972 Sir John R. Hicks Kenneth J. Arrow 1973 ... 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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Man Booker Prize
Man Booker Prize an annual prize of £50,000 (originally £20,000 ) for a work of fiction by a living British, Irish, or Commonwealth writer. Great Britain's premier literary award, it was originally known as the Booker Prize and in 1969 was underwritten by the British... Read more |
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Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg The geneticist Joshua Lederberg (born 1925) was a pioneer in the study of bacteria and viruses to determine the chemical and molecular basis of genetics. He shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with two associates. His work on genetic recombination... Read more |
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Ernst Ruska
Ruska, Ernst (1906-1988) German physicist The inventor of the electron microscope , Ernst Ruska, combined an academic career in physics and electrical engineering with work in private industry at several of Germany's top electrical corporations. He was associated with the Siemens Company from... Read more |
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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende The author of several novels and a short fiction collection, as well as plays and stories for children, Isabel Allende (born 1942) has received international acclaim for her writing. Allende earned the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voice Award nomination for her debut novel, La... Read more |
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Novelist Percy, sociologist Shils are prizeworthy
Novelist Walker Percy, called "a spiritual...author Wednesday to win the T. S. Eliot...Creative Writing. Percy and sociologist Edward Shils, who won the Ingersoll Foundation's...captured the 1988 Ingersoll Prizes. Percy, 72, of Covington... |