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The Literature Nobel Prize
In October, the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced once again. Find out more about this important literary prize, its history and previous literature nobelists.
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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.
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Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Obama
The American public awoke on Friday morning to the news that their leader had been honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize.
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2009 Nobel Peace Prize – 205 Names Submitted
Every year around October there is much speculation about Nobel Prize winners, especially who the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize will be.
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Le Clézio: 2008 Nobel Winner
An overview of the 2008 Nobel Prize winning author, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.
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An Explanation of the Nobel Peace Prize
In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. This prestigious award has a long and illustrious history.
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How the Nobel Prize Was Founded
It's amazing how a barely two page document has influenced research and discovery in the world of science and formed the lives of many people.
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Asia's Brightest Moments
Celebrate some of the finest accomplishments of individuals and nations.
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"A Beautiful Mind"-- 2001's True Oscar Contender
A review of the Universal/Dreamworks film, "A Beautiful Mind." The film, which stars Russell Crowe, Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly, is loosely based on the real life events of Nobel Prize Winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. The film opens nationwide January 4, 2002.
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A Mercy is a Powerful Book
Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer has written a new novel that stand tall in the American canon.
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Al Gore: environmental president?
Al Gore has enlightened millions with his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." Another presidential run could be his chance to affect change on a legislative level.
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American Muslim Awarded Nobel Prize
An Egyptian-American was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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Author Snapshot Bio: Hemingway, E
Ernest Hemingway's Author Snapshot Biography.
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Black Nobel Prize Winner Bunche Home, A Landmark
Barack Obama is the third US black to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Ralph Bunche was the first African American to do so. His NY home is a national landmark.
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Blindness, by José Saramago
Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago asks a simple question: What would happen if everyone went blind? This is the subject of Saramago's novel Blindness.
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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.
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Female Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
Doris Lessing, the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, joins a group of only ten other women who have been named Nobel Laureates in Literature.
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How Bees Helped Win a Nobel Prize
Bee communication and navigation are fascinating areas, and for a German biologist, the key to winning the Nobel Prize. Find out how bees helped win this honor for Karl von Frisch in 1973.
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Hungarian Nobel Prize winners
In this article I would like to introduce Hungarian scientists who have awarded a Nobel Prize for their work. They born and learned in Hungary, but most of them worked out of the border of Hungary.
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James D Watson, The Double Helix of the DNA Molecule
A short biography of James D Watson, noted biologist and President of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who, with Francis Crick, discovered the modecular structure of DNA.
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Linus Pauling Double Nobel Prize Winner
Linus Pauling was a genius who described the chemical bond, protein structure and the benefits of Vitamin C and became the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.
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Linus Pauling: Remembering Oregon's Native Son
When you hear the name, “Linus Pauling,” what do you think? Read about this Oregonian and his accomplishments as one of the most important scientists of the 20th Century.
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Nobel Prize Awarded to Discoverers of HIV
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to François Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discovery of HIV.
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Nobel Prize in Economics 2009
The Nobel Prize in Economic this year has been awarded to two economists: Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson for their research in outside the market forces.
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Nobel Prize in Literature 2009
Widely unknown to the general public but acclaimed in Gérmany, it's important to learn some facts about the latest female Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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Obama Taps Steven Chu, Physics Nobel Laureate
Barack Obama's designated energy secretary shared the 1997 Nobel prize in physics. What is the science behind Chu's Nobel prize in physics?
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Panda Poop Wins an Ig Nobel Prize
The 2009 Ig Nobel prizes are awarded for research, ideas, and inventions that make people laugh, then make them think. This year's prizes are no exception.
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Poetic Prize Winners: Ted Hughes Part I
A year before he died, England's eminent and very private poet revealed himself in <i>Birthday Letters</i>.It would prove his greatest book of poetry, and help the world undertand the complicated, artistic personality of Sylvia Plath.
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Ribosome Structure, Chemistry Nobel Prize 2009
The crystalline structure of ribosomes has been studied by three scientific groups and the group leaders have received the 2009 Nobel Prize for explaining ribosomes.
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Sir Alexander Fleming - The Gift of Pencillin
Sir Alexander Fleming was one of many scientists whose work gave the world pencillin. In a serendipitous turn of events, the changing temperatures and a errant spore that landed in a culture dish produced a blue mold that filled the rest of the dish and created what Fleming described as a halo around the staphylococcus bacteria. Fleming corrected theorized that the substance had slowed the growth of the bacteria.
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T.S. Eliot: America's Poet
A brief biography of T.S. Eliot.
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The 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine was shared by the discoverers of the HIV and HPV viruses. This article is about the discovery of HPV.
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The 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was shared by the discoverers of the HIV and HPV viruses. This article is about the discovery of HIV.
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The Giants of Oak Park
This pleasant Chicago suburb was once the home of two outstanding historical figures who you probably never knew were neighbors.
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The National Steinbeck Center
For all the Steinbeck lovers, a marvelous collection of all things Steinbeck.
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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.
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The Photoelectric Effect
In addition to his work on relativity in 1905, Einstein published an explanation for the photoelectric effect that earned him the 1921 Nobel Prize.
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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.
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Toni Morrison's "Paradise"
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Unraveling Bellow 's Ravelstein
I couldn't resist, after writing Ten Good Reasons, I wanted to really understand why <i>Ravelstein</i> had all the critics, popping open good champagne, and declaring 'This is cause for Celebration.' You know I think, for once, that they just might be right.
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V.S. NAIPAUL: The Enigmatic Outsider
The Nobel prize for Literature has been awarded to Sir V. S. Naipaul. Always the consummate outsider, V.S. Naipaul has proven that he has perfected his craft to the extent that when he points his pen the borders between fiction and non-fiction are elegantly erased.
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William Faulkner
Some biographical information, and an in-depth look at two of William Faulkner's pieces: "A Rose For Miss Emily" and "The Bear." This article will appear in two parts.
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William Faulkner
Some biographical information, and an in-depth look at two of William Faulkner's pieces: "A Rose For Miss Emily" and "The Bear." This article will appear in two parts.
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William Faulkner (Part Two)
Continuation of an article on William Faulkner and two of his pieces: "A Rose For Miss Emily" and "The Bear." This article focuses on "The Bear."
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Obama Third US Black Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Barack Obama,Dr. Martin Luther King and Dr. Ralph Bunche are the only African Americans ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. How many others of African descent have won it?
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Alfred Nobel: Biography and Legacy
The renowned chemist, businessman, and inventor gave the world its most prestigious award for literature, peace, and the sciences.
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Marie Curie Biography
Brief biography of Marie Curie, first world-famous female scientist, the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in different science fields, physics and chemistry.
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Life and Vitamin B12
Brief biography and work of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who determined the structures of Penicillin, Vitamin B12, Insulin, and other important biological compounds.
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Mr. Green Genes and Other Glowing Animals
Mr. Green Genes will show if transplanted genes can be passed on to other felines. The transmission would accelerate the study of cystic fibrosis and other gene therapy.
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Doris May Lessing
Doris May Lessing, winner of almost every literary prize, has now completed the set with the award of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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