  |
|
|
|
Articles related to "Nobel Laureates"
China's Nobel Laureate In 2000, Gao was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the pinnacle of a life spent blacklisted, in flight from imprisonment, and in exile. He never stopped writing. cultural revolution • china • gao xingjian • nobel prize • the case for literature
George Porter - Nobel Laureate and Champion of Science Lord George Porter shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 for his work in developing a way to see the various stages of chemical reactions. During his life, he encouraged students to study science and encouraged increased government funding for science. george porter • nobel • chemist • photolysis • norrish
Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Solzhenitsyn stands among the great names in Russian literature - Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Sholokhov and Gorky. His works brought 20th Century Russia to the world. aleksandr solzhenitsyn major works • the gulag archipelago • one day in the life of ivan denisovich • russian literature • nobel prive in literature
Organic Fiber Art with Nobel Laureates Science and the fiber arts are now walking hand in hand. Five fiber artists and a Nobel Laureate have joined forces to explore what happens when yarn meets science. science yarn • math yarn • fiber arts science • knit crochet science • knit crochet math
Women Science Nobel Prize Winners On Monday, October 6th, 2008, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, adding another woman to the list of Nobel Prize winners. women nobel laureates • women in science • 2008 nobel prize • françoise barré-sinoussi • marie curie
Canadian Nobel Winners Canada has contributed enough to get some nobels prizes. Here is a little view at these either Canadian Born or Canadian Citizens who have won the Nobel Prizes. pearson • polanyi • physics • chemistry • peace
Saul Bellow, Novelist Brief biography of American novelist and teacher Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1976. Popular novels include 'Herzog' and 'Humboldt's Gift.' saul bellow • american novelist bellow • saul bellow biography • the adventures of augie march • bellow's herzog
The Nobel Prize in Literature Authors such as Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing, Gunter Grass, Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Pearl Buck, William Butler Yeats, and Boris Pasternak are recognized. the nobel prize in literature • nobel laureates • alfred nobel • literary award controversy and history • writer prize money
Paul Berg - Stanford's Molecular Biologist Paul Berg shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980 for his work on recombinant DNA. He has remained active in recombinant DNA research and encouraging students to study the sciences. berg • stanford • recombinant dna • gene splicing • stem cell research
Art Deco City Stockholm Sweden Fine Art Deco Buildings can be overlooked on a whistle-stop tour of Sweden. Visitors to Sweden should view the City Hall in Stockholm on an Art Deco architectural tour. stockholm city hall sweden • art deco sightseeing in sweden • scandinavian art deco building • art deco tours • nobel prize at the city hall
Creating A World Without Poverty Dr. Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, visited the University of British Columbia to speak about his dream of eradicating poverty one loan at a time. dr. muhammad yunus • grameen bank • creating a world without poverty • social business and the future of capitalism • micro-lending
Nobel Peace Prize Race Heats Up Nominees are waiting for 12 October 2007 when this years Nobel Peace Prize winner will be announced. Oprah Winfrey, Al Gore and Sheila Watt-Cloutier are in the running. nobel prize • nobel peace prize • alfred nobel • oprah winfrey • al gore
Derek Walcott Will President-Elect Barack Obama pick a sexual predator to serve as his Inaugural Poet? derek walcott • sexual harassment • caribbean poet • nobel laureate • barack obama
Henry Taube - Leader in Inorganic Chemistry Henry Taube was the first Canadian born chemist to win the Nobel Prize. He is considered a leader in the field of inorganic chemistry. taube • electron transfer reactions • rates and mechanisms of transition-metal coordinat • reactivity of inorganic substances • mixed-valence molecules
Eternal Treblinka How we treat animals helps define the society we build. vegan • veganism • book review • vegetarianism • society
Many guises of killer cells These cells are killers but they are do a favor by killing germs and removing dead or dying or death-worthy cells of our own body.... phagocytosis • macrophages • moribund • apoptotic cells • neutrophils
Museums in Stockholm Stockholm's museums cover a broad range of subjects, from art, history, Swedish culture, maritime history, and children's interest, to name but a few. skansen • kungliga slottet • skokloster castle • sweden museums • stockholm museums
Screwdriver Anyone? Pilot Screwdriver painlessly converts html into Doc format - make your own personalized Palm reference library. palm • palmpilot • 3com • software • freeware
Soccer Balls and Bucky Tubes This article briefly describes how carbon nanotubes have evolved as candidates for some of the most exciting materials applications being considered today. As well, a brief introduction into modeling efforts in this area is given. nanotubes • fullerene • molecular modelling • quantum mechanics • classical mechanics
Sri Guru Granth Sahib: Holy Book Sri Guru Granth Sahib, holy book of Sikhs, carries a wondrous universal call for removing discrimination based upon religion. Teaches peace and love. sggs • sikhs • sri guru granth sahib • holy-book • gurmukhi
The Prize Winners The fall prize season has unearthed some surprises. Hungary gains a Nobel Laureate for the very first time, and Yann Martel from Canada wins the Booker Prize. nobel prize • booker prize • yann martel • imre kertesz
Vern Thiessen Vern Thiessen is a fascinating playwright, especially if you are a history buff. vern thiessen • einstein's gift • fritz haber • albert einstein • father of chemical warfare
A Different Agenda Banker protests against the current marketing standards of the publishing business.
Al Gore's Global Warming Projects Live Earth concerts, The Climate Project, the We Campaign, warn about our climate crisis while projecting how to have 100% carbon free electrical energy within 10 years. al gore • causes of global warming • global climate change • clean energy • madonna
Cancer Treatment with Ozone Therapy Cancerous cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Oxygen Ozone is used to re-oxygenate the blood making it less hospitable to this disease. Read more .... ozone oxygen therapy • treatments for cancer • ozone generators • causes of cancer • injecting tumours with ozone
Common Cause of Ischemic Stroke Atherosclerosis, or hardened arteries, is what stroke and heart disease have in common. Understanding what causes it is a big step in prevention. heart disease • atherosclerosis • ischemic stroke • heart attack • stroke prevention
Gilbert Newton Lewis - Teacher and Researcher Gilbert Newton Lewis is known to all chemistry students through Lewis Symbols. This dedicated teacher and researcher mentored twenty Nobel laureates during this more than 30 year tenure at the University of California in Berkeley. lewis • lewis symbols • thermodynamics • bonding theory • covalent
Harvard Customs from a 1730 Grad's Scrapbook A brief look back at Harvard customs 275 years ago is given in a scrapbook Comfort Carpenter kept during his studies there. comfort carpenter's harvard scrapbook • 1730 harvard grad lists college's customs • colonial customs at harvard • 1730 rules for harvard freshmen • cyril carpenter
John Rayleigh : Inert Gas Argon Brief biography of English physicist Lord John Rayleigh, a Nobel Prize laureate in physics for isolating gas argon, known for "Rayleigh Scattering" and why sky is blue. john rayleigh physicist scientist • john rayleigh bio • rayleigh scattering • discovered inert gas argon • rayleigh sky is blue
Old Devils & Personal Demons- EXPERIENCE:A MEMOIR Kinglsey Amis and Martin Amis, father and son, are both Literary Prizewinners. After Kingsley died in 1995, and Martin Amis wrote <i>Experience</i> to deal with the Press head on regarding the betrayal of his father in <i> The Sunday Times </i>. Step right up, and read all about it. kinglsey amis • martin amis • literature • literary • family
Philosopher Albert Camus Albert Camus, author of The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, considered himself a Humanist, and fought against being labeled an Existentialist throughout his life. albert camus philosophy • albert camus • philosopher camus • albert camus philosophy on the absurdities of life • what does the feeling of absurdity mean camus
Primary Psychological Heuristics Three main psychological heuristics categorize types of cognitive decision shortcuts used by humans to solve problems which bias perception and produce errors in judgment heuristics and biases • psychological heuristics • representativeness heuristic • availability heuristic • anchoring and adjustment heuristic
Rabindranath Tagore In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Nobel Laureate, won the literature prize primarily for his prose translations of Gitanjali, which is Bengali for "song offerings." rabindranath tagore • gitanjali • w.b.yeats • william rothenstein • nobel prize for literature
Remembering How To Play Psychiatrist Stuart Brown says that the purpose of play is simply play itself, yet his studies show it has a vital function-the foundation of adaptability and optimism. how to play • adaptability • optimism • play • playful
Shell Nigeria: Colonialism Continues A short analysis of Shell's role in propping up Nigeria's military dictatorship. africa • oil • shell • ken saro wiwa
Challenges to Free Expression Technological advances, globalisation, and the rise of religious extremism threaten our freedom of expression. creative commons • cultural intolerance • threats to free expression • censoring culture • copyright and innovation
Dr. Lise Meitner, Physicist Dr. Lise Meitner discovered and named the process of nuclear fission, refusing to let tradition, politics, rivalries, or even Hitler stand in the way of science. lise meitner • nuclear fission • auger effect • protactinium • conservation of energy
Homecoming, Vernacular writers and a thousand pities A report on first international literary festival of India held in this February. exile • vernacular writers
IX of X: Racism, A Definition by Ester I. Jusuf The following definition of <b>racism</b> is developed by <b>Ester Indahyani Jusuf</b>, a prominent Indonesian human rights attorney whose works and advocacies have been known worldwide. She has attended numerous international conferences on human rights, racism and discrimination, including those organized by the United Nations. Being a triple-minority herself (she is of Chinese ethnic, Christian and female), she has been representing the minorities in Indonesia to speak out to the world for years. She is the Chairperson of <b>Solidarity for The Motherland and Nation-Indonesia</b>, a respected non-profit human rights organization in Indonesia. human rights • humanity • humane • civil rights • racism
May Poet - Rabindranath Tagore Tagore's "The Journey" is from his most important collection titled Gitanjali, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1913. rabindranath tagore • the journey • gitanjali • finding the divine beloved • the morning sea of silence broke into ripples of b
Raindrop Shape: No More Tears When we think about raindrops, we often have a fixed image of how they look,their shape as they fall. Literature, poetry and song are filled with allusions to raindrops as heaven/sky tears. In truth, raindrops are spherical in shape initially. Then, unless they are very small, they take on shapes looking more like falling hamburger buns. weather • meteorology • rain • rain drops
Research on Dangers of Flouride Americans are told that fluoride is good for children's teeth. Recent research shows just how dangerous even trace amounts can be to our health. fluoridation • fluoridated water • dangers of fluoride • health problems and fluoride • drinking fluoridated water
Robert Bly's Folly The Ward Churchill of poetry: Robert Bly's so-called translations amount to little more than plagiarism of the authentic translators' works. This article focuses on Bly's misrepresentation of Kabir through Bly's revisions of the far superior translations of Rabindranath Tagore and Evelyn Underhill. kabir • bly's revisions • translations of rabindranath tagore and evelyn und • plagiarism • yogi
The Pulitzer -v- Nobel Scorecard Not all of our favorite classics have won even one of these awards and yet we love them just as much. Check the scorecard to see if your favorite is among the winners! pulitzer • nobel • hemingway • thoreau • wharton
Women In Health History Covers the women in medical history working in the lab. women • labs • laboratories • medical research • history
Barbara McClintock - The Key to Chromosomes Barbara McClintock was drawn to the study of genetics while an undergraduate at Cornell in the 1920s. She mapped the genetic structure of maize, and went on to make giant contributions to the field of cytogenetics. Her achievements were recognized with a Nobel Prize in 1983. mcclintock • cytogenetics • genetics • maize • nobel
Sacha, Duchess of Abercorn. Sacha, Duchess of Abercorn. A fitting name for a member of the British aristocracy. Her ancestral connections have allowed her to cross barriers that were once impenetrable. sacha • duchess • of • abercorn • northern
Schizophrenia: Youth's Greatest Disabler - Part 10 Part 10 in a series on Schizophrenia schizophrenia • mental • illness • child • adolescent
THE HIMALAYAN ARROGANCE AND BRITISH ALOOFNESS OF DALHOUSIE Dalhousie, a British hill station in Himachal Pradesh, India dalhousie • himachal pradesh • india • himalaya • indian himalaya |
|
|
|