Prof. Mary Helen O’Connor ENGL 2112 Rabindranath Tagore The first Asian Nobel Prize winner for Literature‚ a cultural hero‚ and an international figure‚ Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7th May 1861 in Calcutta‚ India. Tagore speaks to an optimistic assortment of the ripened Indian custom and the new European awareness. Globally‚ Gitanjali is Tagore ’s best-known accumulation of poetry and Tagore was granted the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his book "Gitanjali"‚ which contains the essence of an Indian
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1. Who won the first gold medal for india in the Asian games 2010? * Pankaj advani (snooker) 2. Ronald nobel is reelected as chief of * Interpol( international criminal police organisation) Headquater- france 3. Ex indra 10 is a joint military exercise held in october 2010 between india and
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Elements of Mass Communication Embedded in the Film - A Beautiful Mind This movie is about the life of a Nobel prize-winning American mathematician named John Forbes Nash Jr. It was also briefly based on the biography book about him written by Sylvia Nasar‚ which has the same name as the movie. The producer team encoded the information obtained from the biography according to its importance and relevance because there are too much information to squeeze into the a script with limited exposition
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Gilbert Newton Lewis Biography Gilbert Newton Lewis‚ known as “GN” by his colleagues‚ is one of the most distinguished chemists of the twentieth century. His work in thermodynamics‚ the electron pair bond‚ and acidbase theory is well known in the scientific community. Many of his biographies‚ including one in the NEACT Journal‚ 1 have presented and analyzed his scientific contributions.2‚3 Recently‚ two people have made unique contributions to a better understanding of the man and his
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INFORMATION ABOUT MARIE CURIE Introduction: Dr. Marie Curie is one of the most famous scientists that ever lived. Her contributions such as the discovery of Radium and other key elements help us out every day‚ especially when getting an X-ray. Marie Curie is known to the world as the scientist who discovered radioactive metals i.e.‚ Radium and Polonium. Born and Death: Marie Curie was born November 7‚ 1867 in Poland and died on July 4‚ 1934. Her full name is Marie Sklodowska Curie.
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scientific education. Today‚ women are becoming an ever-increasing percentage of the scientific and medical work force. In 1982 Barbara McClintock won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of mobile genetic elements. Her discovery was that genes could jump around on chromosomes. This discovery was the basis of today’s advances in genetic engineering. The Nobel Prize Committee called
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receiving access and recognition to her fields‚ in which she pioneered the study of radioactivity when discovering two new elements‚ Radium and Polonium. Curie’s legacy remains as the first person and only woman to win a Nobel Prize twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences‚ Chemistry and
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Mendeleev was born in the village of Verkhnie Aremzyani‚ near Tobolsk in Siberia‚ to Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev and Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva (née Kornilieva). His grandfather was Pavel Maximovich Sokolov‚ a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church from the Tverregion. Ivan‚ along with his brothers and sisters‚ obtained new family names while attending the theological seminary. Despite being raised as an Orthodox Christian‚ he later rejected the religion and embraced a form of deism. Mendeleev is thought
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Mother Teresa Real name: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu Born: 26-Aug-1910 Birthplace: Skopje‚ Yugoslavia (known today as Skopje‚ Macedonia) Died: 5-Sep-1997 Location of death: Calcutta‚ India Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried‚ Mother House Convent‚ Calcutta‚ India Gender: Female Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Religion‚ Activist Nationality: India Executive summary: Missionaries of Charity Father: Kolë (d. 1919) Mother: Drana Sister: Aga (b. 1904)
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digestive process for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1904. Starting in 1901 and for the next 35 years‚ Pavlov studied dogs and their salivary reflexes. With experimentation‚ he discovered a higher order of learning. This was the beginning to his understanding the brain’s way of adapting to changing external environments. As a famous man in psychological history‚ Ivan Pavlov passed away in Leningrad on February 27‚ 1936. According to the Nobel Foundation (1967)‚ Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was
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