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- 81: John Steinbeck
- ... took to the growing of California, the Depression, and poverty. John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize award for his book The Grapes of Wrath in 1940. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize award in 1962. He was the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. His novel, Tortilla Flat, received the California Commonwealth Club’s annual gold medal for the best novel by a California writer. It was adopted for the stage ...
- 82: Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- ... and consuming itch Can make a martyr and a consuming bitch) There is much more but as you can see not very appropriate at all. Again this man won a Nobel Prize and was loved by Americans and the English. “How on Earth did he achieve that?” Probably because that is what the world is hungry for. Explains acts of fantasizing ... his wife that he loved so much in the Love Letter, than leading into divorce. Overall if you ask me, T.S. Eliot didn’t need fame, fortune and the Nobel Prize. He needed serious mental help and most importantly, the God he talked of so vaguely throughout his writing. By: Eric Paoletti Bibliography: T.S. Eliot’s Personal waste land ...
- 83: The Good Earth
- In the critically acclaimed novel The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck depicts a humble farmer and his obedient wife O-lan. The Nobel Prize winning classic, set in late eighteenth century China, begins with Wang Lung going to the "Great House of Hwang"(49) to collect the wife that was betrothed to him ... then names. I also felt that the book was a little drawn out and should of ended when O-lan died. The story was highly acclaimed and won both the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for literature. I would recommend this book because it helped me to understand how my own family traditions were developed and cherished by my family ...
- 84: Wilhelm 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 ...
- 85: Jane Addams
- ... Evil, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, Twenty Years at Hull House, Democracy and Social Ethics, and Newers Ideas of Peace. In her elderly age, she received the Nobel Peace Prize. “Now 71 years old, she had at last received official recognition for her tireless efforts on behalf of peace” (Kittredge 99). Addams was the second woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, however she was not able to accept it in person because she was in the hospital awaiting lung surgery. With her earnings for this honor she divided the ...
- 86: Nikola Tesla
- ... and Edison became rivals, fighting to develop there inventions as quickly as possible. In 1915 he was severely disappointed when a report that he and Edison were to share the Nobel Prize. Edison went back on a promise to pay him a sum of money for a particular inventions and Tesla broke off relations at once and went into the inventing ... in particular. Hundreds filed into New York City's Cathedral of St.John for his funeral services, and a flood of messages acknowledged the loss of a great genius. Three Nobel Prize winners in physics (Millikan, Compton, and W.H. Barton) addressed their tributes. One of the outstanding intellects of the world who paved the way for many of the technological ...
- 87: Albert Einstein and His Theories
- Albert Einstein and His Theories Einstein, Albert (1879-1955), German-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, best known as the creator of the special and general theories of relativity and for his bold hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light. He is perhaps the most ... end of his life. "God," Einstein once said, "does not play dice with the world." World Citizen 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 ...
- 88: Santiago Ramon Y Cajal {Famous
- ... the keystones for neuroscience. Before Cajal's method it was impossible to stain and study specific parts of nervous tissue because the cells were so interconnected. Cajal shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discoveries pertaining to neuro staining. This was a great honor for him, but the modest Cajal did not believed it was an honor that he deserved. He did not want the added attention that went with being a Nobel Prize winner. It was especially stressful for him because he was the first histologist to win the prize for medicine. Consequently, Cajal spent much of the rest of his life ...
- 89: Albert Einstein
- ... about the movement of in still liquids mixed objects supported by the molecularkinetical theory of heat and about the electrodynamics of moving objects". In autumn of 1922 Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics, for his work on the photoelectric effect. He did not receive the prize for his "theory of relativity" because it was thought that at the time it did not meet the criteria of something that a Nobel Prize is awarded for. So when the prize was awarded to him, they said it was awared to him for his work on the photoelectric effect, if his theory of ...
- 90: Sir William Lawrence Bragg
- Sir William Lawrence Bragg was an Australian-born British physicist and Nobel Prize winner. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics with his father, British physicist Sir William Henry Bragg, for their work in establishing X-ray crystallography, the study of crystal structures with X rays. Born in ...
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