Topic: This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine is won by two scientists. They are Sir John B. Gurdon from United Kingdom and Prof. Shina Yamanaka from Japan. They both contribute to develop human cell studying. Official Nobel Prize announced that the Prize motivation is "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent". They discover that mature cells can be converted to stem cells. Sir John B. Gurdon was born in Dippenhall in 1933
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Eye on the prize It was an enthusiastic decision I made‚ going back to school. Fall term‚ 2013‚ I ventured back to Mount Hood Community College to finish my business transfer degree. It was a familiar place‚ in its structure and appearance‚ but the energy I had to be there made it seem so much more exciting than my past experience. I had taken a couple terms at this school before‚ but I found myself completely uninterested. I needed a break from school. The last 13 years of my life I spent in a
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Nobel Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature is considered to be the most prestigious literature prize throughout the world and is awarded since 1901. According to Alfred Nobel’s will‚ it is granted annually to an author from any country who has produced‚ "the most outstanding work in an ideal direction in the field of literature ". The Swedish Academy decides who will receive the prize in any given year. The procedure lasts for a year. At first‚ the members of the Nobel Committee
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Aubrey Lucy was a black female and went to a white college James Meredith who was armed with a federal court order to sign up for classes at the all-white Mississippi university and wasn’t able to until the Kennedy administration who sent federal state troops an d officials. He graduated in 1963 and began “March against fear”. And he later got a law degree at Colombia University. Mississippi governor Ross Barnett. Barnett‚ like some other Southern politicians‚ had been a moderate who veered to
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The focus of the video documentary "Ain’t Scared of your Jails" is on the courage displayed by thousands of African-American people who joined the ranks of the civil rights movement and gave it new direction. In 1960‚ lunch counter sit-ins spread across the south. In 1961‚ Freedom Rides were running throughout the southern states. These rides consisted of African Americans switching places with white Americans on public transportation buses. The whites sat in the back and black people sat in the
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SHINGO PRIZE AWARD Purpose and Background The Shingo Prize (SP) was established in 1988 by a Japanese industrial engineer by the name of Shigeo Shingo‚ which "distinguished himself as one of the world’s leading experts in improving manufacturing processes."(Shingoprize.org‚ 2010) The (SP) works by promoting an awareness of incline in manufacturing concepts‚ and to recognize companies that achieve world class status. The (SP) has been referred to by Business Week the “Nobel Prize of Manufacturing
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comparing the two‚ equally popular approaches to swag. If the reader is unaware of these‚ they need only to turn on the television‚ or pick up a newspaper or popular magazine. We cannot talk of swag and politics without remembering the words of nobel prize winner Kuuipo H. Amster ’political
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``“Eyes on the Prize‚” Can Make a Difference. In the video “Eyes on the Prize‚” African Americans were fighting for freedom and civil rights. That’s basically what the prize was. Even though African American were free from slavery‚ which is a condition where a human being is forced into exhausting labor and some freedom‚ they still wanted more. They wanted to be equal. They wanted a different kind of freedom such as equal education‚ equal housing‚ and equal voting. Looking back on our African ancestors
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1968 was awarded to Luis Alvarez "for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics‚ in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states‚ made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis". Alvarez’s colleagues sometimes called him the "prize wild idea man" because of the huge range of his activities. He did all kinds of research into the atomic nucleus‚ light‚ electrons‚ radar‚ and so
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Nobel Prize Founded by Alfred Nobel‚ the Nobel Prize is awarded to candidates in the fields of physics‚ chemistry‚ medicine or physiology‚ literature‚ economic sciences‚ and peace every year since 1901 – except for economic sciences‚ which was introduced as a Nobel Prize in 1968 by the Sveriges Riksbank. On account of World War I and II‚ the Nobel Prize was not awarded only on nine occasions since the established year from 1901. Alfred Nobel‚ a Swedish engineer‚ chemist‚ and philanthropist‚ created
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