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- 1: Alfred Nobel
- Alfred Nobel Born in Stockholm in 1833 of Swedish parents, Alfred Nobel moved with his family to St. Petersburg, then the capital of Russia, at the age of nine. There his energetic and inventive father soon acquired a strong and respected position as an inventor and industrialist. Nobel subsequently lived in several countries and ultimately came to regard himself as a citizen of the world. Even so, he never gave up his Swedish citizenship. By virtue of ...
- 2: Alfred Nobel
- Alfred Nobel Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833.(Encarta) His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. In connection with his construction work Immanuel Nobel also experimented with different techniques of blasting rock. Alfred' ...
- 3: Marie Curie
- ... this date. She made her mark in 1898 when she, and her husband Pierre, announced the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium. Five years later they shared the Nobel Prize in physics. Marie Curie was the first female recipient of a Nobel Prize. Manya Sklodowska, later to be known as Marie Curie, was born in a small apartment in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. She was the youngest of five children ... to describe elements that give off radiation as their nuclei break down . In 1898 Marie and Pierre announced their discovery of polonium and radium; and in 1903 they shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Bequerel for the discovery of radioactive elements. Unfortunately in 1906 Pierre Curie's life was taken in an accident. Marie took over his classes and ...
- 4: Alfred Nobel
- Alfred Nobel The inventor of dynamite was a very important roll to take part in. The ultimate inventor of it was a mane named Alfred Nobel. Before dynamite, miners had to use nitrogen to blow holes in rock and other things. However it is too volatile and can explode incredibly easily. Alfred changed all this. Alfred Nobel was born on October 21st 1833 in Stockholm. He studied their until1842 when his family moved to St. Petersburg in Russia. Since his father was an influential inventor and ...
- 5: Alfred Nobel
- The inventor of dynamite was a very important roll to take part in. The ultimate inventor of it was a mane named Alfred Nobel. Before dynamite, miners had to use nitrogen to blow holes in rock and other things. However it is too volatile and can explode incredibly easily. Alfred changed all this. Alfred Nobel was born on October 21st 1833 in Stockholm. He studied their until1842 when his family moved to St. Petersburg in Russia. Since his father was an influential inventor and industrialist ... the greatest benefit on mankind." Physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. His family had many rejections to this but it still went through. It is sure that Alfred Nobel contributed a great deal to chemistry and the world and has a large diversity of achievements. He lived an unhealthy life only to live a healthy afterlife. Many people ...
- 6: The Nobel Savage In The Last O
- The Nobel Savage in the Novel The Last of the Mohicans The novel The Last of the Mohicans is said to be the worst of James Fenimore Coopers novels but it establishes the concept of the Nobel savage by expressing the emotions, concerns, physical descriptions of the main characters while comparing them to the barbarous Huron leader. The Mohicans (Hawk-eye, Uncas, Chingachgook) were on a journey ... head. A scene like this has immense powers in Coopers hands to persuade the reader into believing the Mohicans as being graceful, civilized, heroic and a true representation of the Nobel Savage. The Mohicans fought like they looked, using all their strength and grace which God has given them and others have looked down upon. Chingachgook, the father of Uncas, ...
- 7: Irene Joliot-curie
- ... JOLIOT-CURIE Irene Curie was a brilliant dedicated scientist who accomplished many things throughout her life but was overshadowed by those around her throughout her life. She was overshadowed by Nobel laureate parents Maire and Pierre Curie, by co-laureate and husband Jean Frederick Joliot, by her physicist daughter Helene, who was married to Paul Langevin's grandson, and by biochemist ... their joint papers were published in the years 1932-1934. For their work concerning artificial radioactivity and or their contributions toward the discover y of the neutron the received the Nobel prize. Irene abhorred the frivolous. Her childhood was dedicated to her studies, her adulthood to her research. For relaxation she liked to hike in the mountains, ski, or play tennis ... pattern of dressing simply. One gets the sense that she resented wasting any resources of funds, energy, or time on fashion. The exception to this was her appearance at her Nobel Prize Ceremony. Pictures of this event reveal a beautiful, elegant woman in a long, black gown. Irene was awarded her Nobel prize in a time of astonishing developments in ...
- 8: George Dantzig
- ... loner, odd as well as brilliant. He would pace around and around, following the quadrangular hallways, occasionally dashing into empty classrooms to scribble, with lightning speed, on blackboards. Nash's Nobel-winning thesis on game theory was the product of his second year at Princeton. Game theory was the invention of Von Neumann and a Princeton economist named Oskar Morgenstern. Their ... tool that economists could use to analyze everything from business competition to trade negotiations. "It wasn't until Nash that game theory came alive for economists," said Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics at MIT. P Ordeshook wrote: The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in game theory. ... Whether we are analyzing candidates ... other work Nash did in pure mathematics to be his greatest achievements, worthy of Nobels if such were given in the mathematical field. Many have said that he got his Nobel for his most trivial work. By the mid-1950s, Nash was phenomenally productive. When he got tired of mathematicians, he would wander over to the economics department to talk ...
- 9: John Steinbeck
- ... One morning in 1962 John and Elaine Steinbeck were eating breakfast and watching the morning news. They were startled to hear the announcer say, “John Steinbeck has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.” The Swedish Academy, which awards the prize each year, had elected Steinbeck ober all the other writers in the world. The prize honored not one of his books, but all of them. The Nobel Foundation was established in 1900 on the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist who invented dynamite. In his will Nobel said that the interest from his $9 million estate be used to fund the annual prizes. Perhaps Alfred Nobel set ...
- 10: Paul Ehrlich
- ... important advances to the world of medicine. He is best remembered for his development of the arsenic compound number 606, which was used as a treatment of syphilis. As a Nobel Prize Winner and an honored scientist, fellow scientists and doctors praise Paul Ehrlich for his contributions. Ehrlich led a wonderful and intriguing life, which is greatly admired. Paul Ehrlich was ... The Prize of Honor at the XVth International Congress of Medicine at Lisbon was awarded to Ehrlich in 1906. He was awarded one of the most sought after prizes, the Nobel Prize, in 1908 for Physiology or Medicine. He was also given, in 1911, the Liebig Medal of the German Chemical Society. He was renominated for the Nobel Prize in 1912 for his work in chemotherapy. Finally, in 1914 he received the Cameron Prize. Paul Ehrlich was well praised and honored by the citizens of the world. ...
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