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- 11: East Timor. Do They Have A Rig
- ... as leader of the East Timorese Resistance and president of CNRT. Gusmao is now serving a 20-year prison sentence in Indonesia. José Ramos-Horta, co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, was named the Vice President of the CNRT. In 1996 the Bishop Carlos Ximenes Felipe Belo along with Jose Ramos-Horta were awarded the Nobel Peace prize for their efforts in the East Timorese cause. More attention started coming onto Indonesia for their handling of the East Timor situation. Even their economic allies were voting ... line the pockets of international business. The East Timorese were exploited and left to die in the face of their oppressors. In 1996 two East Timorese were presented with the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to achieve peace and autonomy for their people. One can decide for one's self as to whether to believe the Suharto government, or ...
- 12: Hemingway
- ... triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literacy world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. This novel also won the Pulitzer Prize award. III. July 21st, 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born. He was born to DR Clarence Edmonds and Grace Hall Hemingway ... Sea was Hemingway's second entry in his triad about land, seas, and air. It got him the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1954, the greatest literary award of all, the Nobel Prize. Hemingway had three true phobias in his life: telephone conversations, the taxman, and public speaking. Yet he wrote a very touching speech that was read. It was at that moment that the end had begun for Papa Hemingway. Before the Nobel Prize in 1954, Ernest and Mary had sought out his fifth African safari. This time he was much less boisterous. He maintained a clear mind. He shot very well, ...
- 13: Albert Einstein 2
- ... chairman at the lecture he gave in a large hall at Princeton which was overflowing with people: -I never realized that so many Americans were interested in tensor analysis. The Nobel Prize: Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for the second paper he had donein 1905 on the photoelectric effect. Einstein, in fact was not present in December 1922 to receive the prize being on ... chairman at the lecture he gave in a large hall at Princeton which was overflowing with people: -I never realized that so many Americans were interested in tensor analysis. The Nobel Prize: Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for the second paper he had donein 1905 on the photoelectric effect. Einstein, in fact was not present in December ...
- 14: Nelson Mandela
- ... then 20 years. 1985, United States Senator Edward Kennedy visits South Africa to show his anti-apartheid support. He is hosted by Bishop Desmond Tutu the recipient of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize; Kennedy also visits Winnie Mandela (Nelson’s Wife). Same year, South Africa's church leaders take up the anti-apartheid cause, led by Bishop Tutu. Late1985, During the ... and traveling with Winnie to the U.S., Europe and North Africa. In Sweden, he visits his old friend Oliver Tambo. 1993. Mandela and de Klerk are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1994, Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as president of South Africa, with his daughter Zenani beside him; de Klerk is sworn in as deputy president. Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela is ... then 20 years. 1985, United States Senator Edward Kennedy visits South Africa to show his anti-apartheid support. He is hosted by Bishop Desmond Tutu the recipient of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize; Kennedy also visits Winnie Mandela (Nelson’s Wife). Same year, South Africa's church leaders take up the anti-apartheid cause, led by Bishop Tutu. Late1985, During ...
- 15: Hemmingway
- ... triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literacy world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. This novel also won the Pulitzer Prize award. III. July 21st, 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born. He was born to DR Clarence Edmonds and Grace Hall Hemingway ... Sea was Hemingway's second entry in his triad about land, seas, and air. It got him the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1954, the greatest literary award of all, the Nobel Prize. Hemingway had three true phobias in his life: telephone conversations, the taxman, and public speaking. Yet he wrote a very touching speech that was read. It was at that moment that the end had begun for Papa Hemingway. Before the Nobel Prize in 1954, Ernest and Mary had sought out his fifth African safari. This time he was much less boisterous. He maintained a clear mind. He shot very well, ...
- 16: Albert Einstein
- ... chairman at the lecture he gave in a large hall at Princeton which was overflowing with people: -I never realized that so many Americans were interested in tensor analysis. The Nobel Prize: Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for the second paper he had donein 1905 on the photoelectric effect. Einstein, in fact was not present in December 1922 to receive the prize being on ... chairman at the lecture he gave in a large hall at Princeton which was overflowing with people: -I never realized that so many Americans were interested in tensor analysis. The Nobel Prize: Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for the second paper he had donein 1905 on the photoelectric effect. Einstein, in fact was not present in December ...
- 17: Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist
- ... scientists, presented Pierre and his wife with one of its highest awards, the Davy Medal. Not a month later, they heard from the Academy of Sciences in Sweden that the Nobel Prize for physics was to be awarded to the Curies along with Henri Becquerel. Marie and Pierre felt too ill to make the jounrney to Sweden to accept the prize in person, so Becquerel accepted the medals for them. The Nobel Prize included a rather large sum of money... 70,000 gold francs. The Curies accepted the money finance for their experiments. This released Pierre from his teaching so that he ... crowd. In the year of 1910, four years after Pierre's death, Marie published a long account of her discoveries of radioactivity. This led to her being awarded a second Nobel Prize. Not for another fifty years would anyone accomplish such a remarkable honor. This time, Marie went to Stochholm in Sweden to accept her prize in person. 1911 should ...
- 18: Historical Development of Atomic Structure
- ... 1856 another important figure in atomic theory was born: Sir Joseph John Thomson. In 1906, after teaching at the University of Cambridge and Trinity University in England, he won the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the conduction of electricity through gases. He discovered what an electron is using cathode rays. An electron is the smallest particle in an ... Alamos Scientific Laboratory, a site chosen by the US government for nuclear weapon research. The first atomic bomb was developed here with the help of James Chadwick. Chadwick earned the Nobel Prize for physics in 1935. In the same era of the development of the atom lived a man, just across the North Sea from these three learned individuals, in Denmark ... nuclear and atomic physics. He moved to Cambridge University in 1911, working under J. J. Thomson, but soon moved to Manchester to work under Rutherford's supervision. He won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1922 for his theory on atomic structure (also known as the Quantum Theory), which was published in papers between 1913 and 1915. He based his ...
- 19: Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941)
- Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941) Life Description Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian physician, physiologist, and Nobel winner in 1923 for the discovery of the hormone insulin, used in treating diabetes. Early Life Banting was born November 14, 1891, on a farm near Alliston, Ontario. The death ... Toronto. He opened an office as a surgeon. However, after 4 months, he only earned 14 dollars! Therefore, he transferred to University of Western Ontario as a teacher. Winning the Nobel Prize In the year 1921, he performed a major breakthrough of modern science- -he had brought a dying victim of diabetes back to life. This discovery led him to win the 1923 Nobel Prize. Even though he could turn wealthy by patenting insulin, he chose to go back to University of Toronto, and made sure that public could have insulin injection cheap ...
- 20: Michael Smith Biography
- Michael Smith Biography Smith, Michael (1932- ), British-born Canadian biochemist and Nobel Prize winner. Smith developed a method for altering the nucleic acid deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) structure of protein molecules. His technique enabled scientists to determine with great accuracy the function of proteins in specific organisms. This innovation also expanded the possibilities of protein engineering. For this work, Smith was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He shared the prize with American biochemist Kary B. Mullis, who was honored for developing the technique of polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Born in Blackpool, England, Smith ... directly compare the effect that each protein had on an individual organism. This innovation allowed proteins to be custom-designed and -produced for industrial or medicinal purposes. After receiving the Nobel award, Smith continued to use the new technique to study the effect of specific amino acids on the behavior of cytochrome c (a protein involved in cellular respiration) and ...
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