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- 71: Mother Teresa
- ... get along. All she needs is some running water and the necessary materials to help the sick. Mother Teresa did such great work for the poor that she received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. Pope Paul VI honored Mother Teresa by awarding her the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize. The following year the government of India presented her with the Jawaharial Nehru Award for International Understanding. In 1979 she received her greatest award, the Nobel Peace Prize. Mother Teresa accepted all of these awards on behalf of the poor, suing any money that accompanied them to fund her centers. By 1990 over 3,000 nuns ...
- 72: Men And Women Were Created Equ
- ... barriers and been allowed to obtain a 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 McClintock’s work “one of the two great discoveries of our time in genetics.” The other was the earlier discovery of the double helix shape of DNA ...
- 73: Asimov On Chemistry by Isaac Asimov
- ... The Noblemen of Science Isaac Asimov decided to write this essay after he was called by a reporting wanting to know who three frenchmen were that had just won the nobel prize. Since he didn't know he decided to make a list of all pepople who had won the nobel preize in the fields of physics, chemistry, and medicine. He also supplied the country in which each scientist recieved his or her undergradute training. The Isaac Winners There are people ...
- 74: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
- ... was professor at Munich for only one year. Before that he had received an offer from the University of Leipzig, which he declined. In 1901, A Swedish millionaire named Alfred Nobel started an annual award of a plaque and some money in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and contributions to world peace (which was added later). These award assemblies ... a diploma, and 50,000 Swedish kronor. King Oscar II did not hand out these awards, but Crown Prince Gustav presented these awards in his absence. After Roentgen received the Nobel Prize, many people started claiming they had seen these rays first. Others said that he took all the credit from his assistant and that Zehnder actually made the X-ray ...
- 75: Barn Burning
- ... many qualities Faulkner celebrates. Abner's very defiance of the humiliation at the white man's doorway, his courage, pride, and endurance (qualities which Faulkner would later extol in his Nobel Prize Speech) are admirable, and initially these qualities guarantee Sarty's loyalty against the "enemy." Moreover, the father's "wolflike independence and even courage" plus his "ferocious conviction in the ... students experience difficulty in fathoming Faulkner's partial admiration for Abner. They see only the negative, violent, destructive Abner, so we might linger a while amidst the language of the Nobel Prize Speech and the complex mix of qualities attributed to Abner Snopes in hopes of establishing an appreciation of the fullness of Abner's character which includes his independence, courage ...
- 76: Apartheid In South Africa 2
- ... under the Suppression of Communism Act, and Mandella favored a Westminster type democracy. Finally, after years of international pressure, Mandella was released in February 1990. In 1993, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1994, became South African President. DESMOND TUTU Ordained as a priest in 1961, Tutu studied theology in London where he gained his masters degree in 1966 ... Council of Churches in the same year. He was honored worldwide for his determination in resisting apartheid peacefully. He supported the Free Mandella campaign and promoted peaceful disobedience. Awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1985, he was a powerful voice amongst those calling for economic sanctions to be placed on South Africa. He was Archbishop of Johannesburg, then Cape Town, before ...
- 77: A Reflection Of Egypt In The 2
- ... Soul." Newsweek 115 (June 26, 1990): 64. · El-Enany, Rasheed. "Mahfouz: A great novel and a wanting translation." Third World Quarterly 13 (1992): 187. · Enani, M.M.,ed. Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel 1988, Egyptian Perspectives: a collection of critical essays. Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 1989. · Gershoni, Israel. "Between Ottomanism and Egyptianism: The Evolution of National Sentiment in the Cairene Middle Class ... Desire: Cairo Trilogy II. Trans. William Maynard Hutchins, et al. Cairo: AUC Press, 1991. · Mahfouz, Naguib. Sugar Street. Trans. William Maynard Hutchins et al. Cairo, AUC Press, 1992. · "Mahfouz, the Nobel Lauriate" http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/daily/dam/970809/1997080905.html · Mikhail, Mona N. Studies in the Short Fiction of Mahfouz and Idris. New York: New York University Press, 1992 ...
- 78: Albert Einstein 3
- Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879, and died in 1955. He was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate, also known as the creator of the special and general theories of relativity and for his hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light. He is perhaps the most well ... until the end of his life. God , Einstein once said, does not play dice with the world . After 1919, Einstein became internationally renowned. He accrued honors and awards, including the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921, from various world scientific societies. His visit to any part of the world became a national event; photographers and reporters followed him everywhere. While regretting ...
- 79: Mother Teresa
- ... In 1962 she wins her first prize for her humanitarian work. The award she received was called the Parma Shirr award for distinguished service. Then in 1979 she won the Nobel Peace Prize. In accepting the award in the name of the unwanted, unloved, and the uncared for she said " The reason I was given the Nobel Prize was because of the poor. However, the prize went beyond appearances. In fact, it awakened consciences in favor of the poor all over the world. It became a sort ...
- 80: The Atomic Theory
- ... These books included an improved version of the periodic table. Sir Joseph Thomson, another important person in the development of the atomic theory, was born in 1906. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in physics (1906) for his work in the conduction of electricty through gases. He discovered the electron by using cathode rays. An electron is the smallest particle of an ... of the war, Chadwick helped with the U.S. nuclear weapons research. The first atomic bomb was developed with the help of Chadwick, and because of this he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935.
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