Tuesday, January 21, 2014

A Noble Nobel Prize

On Monday of this week, we did not have school to celebrate Martin Luther King Day.  Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Prize in 1964 not because of the war he waged against inequality to blacks, but in the way he led that struggle.

Between 1901 and 2013, there have been over 500 Nobel Prizes and Prize in Economic Sciences awarded.  In this DNA unit, we will discuss other very important Nobel Prize winners, James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine..."for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

The blog assignment for this week is for you to find another winner of a Nobel Prize.  You can pick any of the categories of the Nobel Prize that interest you and describe one winner.  In a scholarly writing, I would like you to describe the winner or winners in one or two paragraphs.  Additionally, you should include the year that they won, what prize they won, and why they won.  This blog entry should be at least 5 sentences long and be written in a scholarly manner (include capital letters and periods).  This first blog entry is worth 10 points.  

The following link will help you...


Be sure to put the research into your own words.  Also, pick a winner that has not been described by someone else.  I will email you if your blog entry is not acceptable.