received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. The Nobel Prize is a prize that is annually awarded every year to people with outstanding achievements. Marie Curie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first person who was honoured with two Nobel Prizes‚ one in physics and one in chemistry. To prove the importance of her work‚ Marie Curie received 15 gold medals‚ 19 degrees‚ and a Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry. The Nobel Prize was named after Alfred Nobel‚ the founder of the Nobel Prize
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Does chocolate make you clever? By Charlotte Pritchard BBC News Eating more chocolate improves a nation’s chances of producing Nobel Prize winners - or at least that’s what a recent study appears to suggest. But how much chocolate do Nobel laureates eat‚ and how could any such link be explained? The study’s author‚ Franz Messerli of Columbia University‚ started wondering about the power of chocolate after reading that cocoa was good for you. One paper suggested regular cocoa intake led to improved
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Military Cross for his bravery. He was also responsible for one of the greatest achievements in medical history‚ the discovery of insulin in 1922. He had saved the lives of countless diabetics throughout the world. Frederick Banting won the first Nobel Prize for Canadians in Medicine and Physiology in 1923‚ for no single event in the history of medicine had so dramatically changed the lives of so many people. He was also knighted in 1934. Mr. Banting was the greatest medical scientist known to mankind
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Some of his works are: synthesis of glucose‚ fructose‚ mannose starting with glycerol‚ and establishing structures for the 16 stereoisomers of the aldohexoses with glucose as the most prominent member. | Paul Dirac | 1902 - 1984 | He received a Nobel prize in 1933 for the work on anti-particles. The "Dirac equation" was a version of the Schrodinger’s equation. |
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Marie Curie Marie Curie was born Maria Sklowdaska on November 7th‚ 1867. She was the fifth and youngest child in her family. Times were tough living in the Russian parition of Poland‚ and her family suffered many financial hardships. She attended school and graduated as Valedictorian‚ but all the years of stress lead up to a sort of breakdown‚ and she had to spend some time away from home with her uncle until she felt less depressed. Soon‚ she was ready for higher education. However‚ being a woman
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tics Antibiotics Several scientists around the beginning of the 20th Century discovered substances that were toxic to bacteria yet not to the human cell. But it wasn’t until Sir Alexander Flemings own discovery in 1928 that everyone took notice. While washing his equipment‚ Sir Fleming noticed a bit of mold attacking a patch of bacteria. It’s frightening to consider how many more people would have died in the 20th Century if Sir Fleming did not have good eyes. Today‚ some complain that
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Toni Morrison: Changing The Game Author Toni Morrison shaped the culture of writing in three main areas; she garnered attention and award of the Nobel Prize society‚ she captured minds of reading audiences in a way that other black authors had not‚ and she gave a voice to difficult subject matters that has been followed by modern authors. The following from one of her novels gives good example of her journey; “You can’t do it all. You a woman and a colored woman at that. You can’t act like a man
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Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech I was an obscure individual in those days. My name was hardly known outside my own province‚ but I was quite content with that obscurity‚ which protected me from the curiosity of crowds. And then came a time when my heart felt a longing to come out of that solitude and do some work for my fellow beings‚ and not merely give shape to my dreams and meditate deeply on the problems of life‚ but try to give expression to my ideas through some definite
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Mo Yan pens Nobel success story Writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy‚ which gives out the annual prizes‚ described Mo’s works as "hallucinatory realism" merging "folk tales‚ history and the contemporary." "Through a mixture of fantasy and reality‚ historical and social perspectives‚ Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garca Marquez‚ at the same time finding a departure point
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Karplus‚ Levitt‚ Warshel win 2013 Nobel prize for chemistry Martin Karplus‚ Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems‚ the award-giving body said on Wednesday. “(The scientists) laid the foundation for the powerful programs that are used to understand and predict chemical processes‚” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement when awarding the prize of 8 million crowns ($1.25 million)
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