Last week, the 2015 winners of the Nobel Prizes were announced. The 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three different scientists for their work with parasites. How cool is that!
From the Nobel Prize website:
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" and the other half to Youyou Tu "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria".
I love the fact that we just studied parasites and now the Nobel Prize for medicine went to three different scientists that have devoted their lives to studying these organisms. I did learn a lot of interesting information about the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine....
106 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have been awarded from 1901-2015.
12 women have won the prize so far.
32 years was the age of the youngest Medicine Laureate ever, Frederick G. Banting,
who was awarded the 1923 Medicine Prize for the discovery of insulin.
87 years was the age of the oldest Medicine Laureate ever, Peyton Rous, when he was
awarded the Medicine Prize in 1966 for his discovery of tumor-inducing viruses.
This week I want you to go on the official website of the Nobel Prize and pick one former or current Nobel Prize winner to write about. Ideally, I would love for there to be no repeats. Use the website to pick a winner and then give a brief synopsis of that person's life and contribution to society. The winner does not have to be a Medicine or Physiology Prize winner as there are also awards for Physics, Peace, Chemistry, Literature, and Economic Sciences. In a scholarly paragraph, (at the very least five sentences long with proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation) present a biography and a reason why they won the award.
For this blog post I chose to write about the Noble Prize winner in 2000 for physiology and medicine was Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, and Eric Kandel. These three men won the prize for deciphering the signalling pathways that regulate some of the brain's most important functions. The main switches for these processes are neurotransmitters which are chemical messengers sent from one nerve cell to another across the tiny junctions, or synapses, that separate them. Arvid Carlsson was the one who discovered that dopamine is an important neurotransmitter in the brain. He made a very sensitive test which allowed him to detect that dopamine was in parts of the brain that control movement. Paul Greengard was the one who showed what happened after the dopamine got to the intended places they needed to be. He showed how they set off a chemically transmitted chain reaction which changes in a form and function of proteins that change how the nerve cell behaves. Eric Kandel was the one who showed how memories are formed. He found that Short-term memories are formed when weak stimulus causes protein pores that let more neurotransmitter molecules to be released. Long-term memories require stronger, longer-lasting stimuli, which hold a different set of proteins, and also order the creation of new proteins that shape the function of the synapse, the effect is to let more neurotransmitters to be released. These men all working together formed a new way of finding how signalling pathways are used for our functions.
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ReplyDeleteThis is the Nobel Prize Winner I chose. His name is Patrick Modiano, and he won the 2014 literature award. He’s a seventy year old writer that writes about memory, identity, and guilt, which is what he was awarded for. He writes stories about the German Occupation of France during WWII. He lives in France, which is where he lived during the reception of his award.
That's really interesting! I would love to read some of his books one day.
DeleteI chose to look under the peace prize section of the nobel prize website. I came across Elie Wiesel, whom I remember from my social studies class’ Holocaust unit last year. Elie Wiesel and his family were taken from their home and forced into Auschwitz camp in Poland. Mr.Wiesel was the only member of his family to survive the Nazi concentration camps and since then has dedicated his life to speaking out on the subject. He won the peace prize for his work in human rights and as a humanitarian. In addition, Elie Wiesel has been the chairman of “The President’s Commission on the Holocaust.” He was awarded the entire prize (sometimes it is shared between more than one worthy acceptant) in 1986. One memorable quote of Elie Wiesel’s is that “The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.”
ReplyDeleteLiu Xiaobo was born in China and was the 2010 Nobel Peace prize winner. In his early life he studied literature and philosophy, and worked as a literary critic and university lecturer in Beijing. He took a doctorate in 1988, after he was a guest lecturer at university in Europe and the US. After standing in the student protests on Tiananmen Square in 1989 he was sentenced to prison for two years. Later he served three years in a labour camp for criticizing the china's one-party system. In 2008, Liu was a co-author of Charta 08, a manifesto which advocates the gradual shifting of China's political and legal system in the direction of democracy. He was arrested in 2008, and was sentenced a year later for 11 years in prison for undermining the state's authorities. Liu Xiaobo has constantly denied the charges. Liu won the Nobel Peace Prize for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. He has made an impact on society by making humans in China have rights, like freedom of speech, as stated in their constitution.
ReplyDeleteAlbert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Theoretical Physics in 1922 mostly for his discovery for the photoelectric effect. The photoelectric effect is the observation that multiple metals produce electrons when a light is shined on them. When the electrons are emitted it’s called photoelectrons. At one time after world war II he was asked, but he declined, to be the president of Israel. He started his work by questioning Newtonian mechanisms which lead to his special theory to have mechanics and the laws for electromagnetic field to match up. He also worked on the quantum theory. All played a part in his discovery of the photoelectric effect which won him the Nobel Prize. Along the way, he also won a series of awards for his work across the globe.
ReplyDeleteI also chose Albert Einstein. I think he was the smartest most influential people of all of the choices.
DeleteI really like how you did your Noble prize winner on Albert Einstein! I always knew he was a very important part in science history! But this further explains exactly what for!!
DeleteAlbert Einstein definitely deserved the Nobel Prize, he helped us in all the reasons you've explained.
DeleteI definitely agree that Albert Einstein was completely deserving of the nobel prize and was one of the smartest people who's ever won the prize.
DeleteThe winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 was Elie Wiesel (1928-present time). Elie is a Jewish writer, humanist and a philosopher. This man “witnessed the genocide committed by the Nazis during WWII.” He, as well as the rest of his family, was sent off to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he was the only Holocaust survivor in the Wiesel family. He is a leading spokesman on the Holocaust, and, having survived such a traumatic ordeal, has many goals, several of which have to do with spreading kindness and peace throughout the world. The reason Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 was because of his literary work that revealed his experiences at the concentration camps to the world, his helpfulness towards other struggling Jews, and because of the fact that he went out to educate people about all of the horrible things thae were happening to the Jews.
ReplyDeleteThat is amazing. I know that many people were traumatized after coming back from the concentration camps and he was able to make his way to the top. That is stunning on its own but to write about his experiences that everyone is trying to push away and put behind them adds a new level of difficulty to earning this prize.
DeleteI agree. Because of Ellie Wiesel, it helped us see what a horrible time it was during the Holocaust and it can prevent something like that from ever happening again.
DeleteI think that Elie deserved the Nobel peace prize because he took his horrifying experience and chose to share it with others through his writing and teach others what happened and how bad of a situation it was.
DeleteI think that he really did deserve the prize, because not only did he do something amazing like surviving the Holocaust he was also able to show people what the camps were like through his experiences in his works. He is very deserving of this award.
DeleteWhen scrolling through the list of Nobel prizes in chemistry, I saw and was intrigued by the 1911 winner, Marie Curie for her discovery of Radium and Polonium. I took interest in her award because I remember last year when we had to go through the periodic table and memorize the elements, and I found the elements particularly interesting, so it gave me a sense of nostalgia when scrolling through the list and seeing her discovery. She won for her discovery of two new elements and her breakthrough research on radioactivity.
ReplyDeleteAbout Marie Currie: Marie Currie (11/1/1867 - 7/4/1934) was amazed by the discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1897, so much in fact that she took it upon herself to continue the studies on radioactivity. She would examine multiple substances and minerals to test for radioactivity within them. After multiple studies for radioactivity, she discovered that the mineral pitchblende was more radioactive than uranium. Upon further examination she concluded that in order for pitchblende to be more radioactive than uranium, it must consist of multiple radioactive substances. When experimenting with pitchblende, she was able to extract two elements; radium and polonium, which are both more radioactive than Uranium.
More info on Marrie: http://www.biography.com/people/marie-curie-9263538#synopsis
More info on the elements she discovered: http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele088.html
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I thought Marie Curie was very intriguing too. I had the same experience with the elements she discovered when learning about them last year in science. I thought it was really cool how she was the only woman to ever be awarded two prizes.
DeleteI would've chosen Marie Curie but you got there first
DeleteThis seems very interesting I didn't personally know there was a material more radioactive than Uranium, and this research will make people more awear about radioactivity and what to look out for.
DeleteNeaven I agree that Curie was a very interesting women who died doing what she loved uranium.
DeleteI think Marie Curie was an amazing scientist. She discovered two elements, which is impressive, and she also is a well known female scientist. Curie was a brilliant scientist, as well as a role model for girls everywhere.
DeleteSvetlana Alexievich won the noble prize in literature in 2015. She was awarded because of her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time. She was born May 31st 1948. She was born in an ukrainian town of Ivano- Frankivisk. Her father was Belarusian but her mom was Ukrainian. After Svetlana’s graduation she became a writer for a newspaper because of her oppositional views. She then wrote books; she gathered information for years for her first book. Her first book was “Voices of Utopia”. This was a book of many people's voices. This was a very important book because it was directly from the perspective of many different people. This was the first book of her many important books. She has made a huge impact and she deserved the nobel prize.
ReplyDeleteI agree that she deserved that prize. People do need to understand literature from other perspectives.
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ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Peace Prize 2008 was awarded to Martti Ahtisaari "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts". Ahtisaari worked to find a solution in Kosovo. First in 1999 and again between 2005 and 2007. He also this year tried too find a peaceful solution to the problems in Iraq. Ahtisaari and his group, Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), also contributed to resolving other conflicts in Northern Ireland, Central Asia, and Africa.
I am picking Martin Luther King Jr. because he is a huge part of history. He was a leader in the African American civil rights movement and showed people how to accomplish what they wanted without violence.That was the reason that he won the nobel peace prize in 1964. He is definitely one of the most well know nobel prize winners to this day. He wanted to make a big difference in his life and I think that he did just that. He brought multiple races together. At that time there was a ton of racial segregation throughout the south and he knew how to persuade people to think and do the right thing.
ReplyDeleteI agree strongly with your response. Martin Luther King Jr is a huge part of history and I think may have been the most influential nobel prize winner of all time because his impact changed racism in America and has not only impacted it at the time but he left a lasting impact.
DeleteI also agree with you! He changed history and made a huge impact in today's life. If anyone deserves the nobel peace prize, Martin Luther King Jr. does!
DeleteI would very strongly agree with you Christian. Martin Luther King Jr. taught us that we can deal with our indifferences without violence. He was a great man and a fantastic role model.
DeleteThe person I chose was Malala Yousafzai. The reason that I chose Mallala is that no matter what people said about her, who threatened her, or how close to death she was, she never stopped fighting for what she believed was right. The reason that she received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 was for her works on the rights and equality for girls all around the world. She began speaking out against the Taliban's ways, that girls shouldn’t be allowed to go to school. Even after they threatened her and almost took her life, she’s still fighting today for the rights of girls. She is now seen as an advocate for both children education and young girls rights.
ReplyDeleteMalala was a great choice! She's an amazing role model.
DeleteThe Nobel Prize winner that I chose was Albert Einstein. I chose Albert because he is one of the most iconic scientists of all time and he is one of my favorite people. Also, he was a German! Einstein was given the award because of his "services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". I always thought that physics was cool and he is a big reason that we have some of the physics that we have today.
ReplyDeletei agree that Albert Einstein was one of the most iconic scientists of all time and he is also one of my favorites too because he did so much with his life
DeleteI like how you brought it all back to say how what we have today has originated from him.
DeleteI also agree that Albert Einstein was one of the most iconic scientists ever and he really did have a huge impact on the growth of scientific studies throughout the years.
DeleteI like how you said Albert Einstein is an Iconic scientist. It's so true that he has had a huge role in science today.
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ReplyDeleteWhen looking for people to write about, I came across Albert Einstein. I knew he was the one because one of my hedgehogs is named after him. Albert Einstein won the Nobel prize in physics in 1921. He was awarded this prize for his contribution to theoretical physics, but mainly his discovery of the law of photoelectric effect. He in fact did not earn his award until 1922, because no one fit the criteria in the physics category in 1921. They held it a year back untill they could find a proper recipient.
I love that you added that bit about you naming your hedgehog after him. I think Albert Einstien deserved the award too and perhaps should've won more awards in my opinion.
DeleteAlbert Einstein is such a fascinating figure, and his contributions were magnificent. The photoelectric effect is such a cool concept as well.
DeleteI remember doing a response and questions to an article about Einstein in 8th grade, and enjoyed learning about his discoveries.Also, my friend's dog is a pet named Einstein as well!
DeleteIn 2003, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer and a human rights activist. Ebadi practiced law and was the first female judge in Iran. She focused on cases that had to do with civil rights, which inspired her to become a human rights activist. She founded the Association For Support of Children's Rights in 1995 and later the Human Rights Defense Center in 2001. Two years later she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Recently in 2012, Ebadi attended the the first Trust Women conference where she promoted a petition to end gender discrimination in Iran.
ReplyDeleteI think that its great that she is fighting for women and children's rights in Iran. I hope that she has been continuing with that so that they can bring peace to the middle east.
DeleteDorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (May 12,1910- July 29,1994) was awarded “for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.” When I came across this woman, I got kind of excited because I want to go to college for biochemistry. Dorothy became interested in chemistry when she was only 10. Luckily, she had family friends who would help her and encourage her. Through her school days, she was still interested in chemistry and was allowed, with another girl, to join the boys. Later, she studied at many universities through some scholarships. She worked with many professors at many places working with the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals. She was awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 1964.
ReplyDeleteI really like that you chose a lesser known winner to write about. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin sounds like a really cool biochemist. Also, good for you for wanting to go into biochemistry! Bio-chem sounds tedious but interesting.
DeleteI most certainly agree that Crowfoot made a very important and key discovery in the medical field. I am glad you picked her because I have never heard of her even though she made such astonishing innovations.
DeleteI like her story because it shows the impact support for young girls can have on the future. So many women fear pursuing scientific careers and because of these fears, men often dominate these occupations. It's inspiring to hear of her recognition.
DeleteI chose Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, the Nobel Peace Prize winners of 1976. I chose them mainly because I wanted to find winners from the year 1976, and I wanted to find women winners. They were the first I found. Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan actually received their Nobel Prize one year later, in 1977. During the selection process in 1976, the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can be reserved until the following year, and this was then applied. Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan therefore received their Nobel Prize for 1976 one year later, in 1977. They split the prize in half. They co-founded Peace People, which began as a protest movement against the on-going violence in Northern Ireland. Over 100,000 people were involved in the initial movement. Betty Williams left The Peace People, NI in 1980 and immigrated to America. She left the USA in 2005 and now resides in the Republic of Ireland, where she runs her own organisation “Mothers of Compassion.” Mairead Corrigan did not give up hope even when the Peace People lost nearly all their support in the late 1970s. She kept up her local peace work with admirable strength.
ReplyDeleteI chose Ivan Pavlov who was a Russian physiologist and won the Nobel Prize in physiology for his work in digestion. His work, which awarded him the Nobel Prize, was concerning digestive glands and how people and animals react to food under certain circumstances. During his time as a physiologist, he was recognized greatly for his intelligence and Lenin, along with the government supported him by large sums of donations. Even though they all respected him, he openly disagreed with the soviet communism and stood up for his beliefs by writing letters to people such as Stalin for how the intellectual people in Russia were being treated. He also sent a letter to Molotov who had sentenced several close associates to be persecuted for a reconsideration. Even though he was awarded the Nobel prize in physiology, he is also recognized as a supporter of freedom and was against wrongful persecutions to his dying breath at the age of eighty-six.
ReplyDeleteMay-Britt Moser won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her "discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain" in 2014. Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist and psychologist. She has a PhD in neurophysiology from the University of Oslo. Moser and her husband, Edvard, discovered a cell in 2005 that is important for determining positions close to the hippocampus, which is located in the center of the brain. They also noted that nerve cells form a coordinate system (grid cells) which enables animals to navigate their environment, and then they went about researching the connection between the two cell types. This discovery of the interaction between them is what the Nobel Prize was awarded for. In summary, May-Britt Moser was one of he scientists who helped to research and learn about the brain's mechanisms for spatial awareness.
ReplyDeleteElie Wiesel, born September 30th in 1928 in Sighet Romania, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Elie and his family were sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust, and his entire family died except for him. He received this award because his goal was to "bear witness to the genocide committed by the Nazis during World War II'. By doing this, he has made a life centered around protecting human rights. After his traumatic experiences, he has taken the bad and made it a lesson to everyone else. When I saw Elie Wiesel on the list for Nobel Piece Prizes, I was not surprised because I have heard what he has gone through, and what he has done to help the world. When he tells his stories, he teaches us to be thankful for what we have and to have hope throughout our lives.
ReplyDeleteNice choice I agree that he was a huge activist in protecting human rights
DeleteThe person I chose was John Bardeen. John was born on May 23rd 1908 in Madison Wisconsin. He died on January 30th 1991 in Boston Massachusetts. The interesting thing about John is that he won the Nobel Prize not only once but twice. He worked in the field of superconductivity and developed the theory of superconductivity or the BCS theory. John was affiliated with Illinois University during the time when he received his noble prizes. John received his prizes in 1956 and then again in 1972
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ReplyDeleteThis week I chose Niels Bohr as my Nobel Prize winner. I felt it was fitting to pick him since we are learning about “Bohr models” in class at the moment. Niels Bohr was born on October 7th, 1885. He lived a long life and finally died on November 18th, 1962 (77). He was awarded the Nobel Prize "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them." I feel like Bohr helped modern science in many ways.
in 1979 Mother Teresa won the nobel peace prize for many different things.Her journey started at the age of twelve, the Catholic Albanian girl Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu heard a call from god that she devote her life to him.over the next years she did just that she devoted herself to god joining a nunnery and getting a new name “teresa”and then starting her own sisterhood issionaries of Charity.They built homes for orphans, nursing homes for lepers and hospices for the terminally ill in Calcutta.thats just a few things that earned her the noble peace prize she did so much more in her life time
ReplyDeleteThe person that I choose was Mother Theresa. I choose her because I thought her story was very interesting. Her field was in humarian work. She was very giving because she built homes for the poor and nursing homes for the old. She won the prize for outstanding devotion to the poor in the place that she lived (Calcutta) and other slums around the area. Also she is very against abortion, and when she won she wanted money donated to the poor and to help stop abortion instead of given to/ used for her. She was the leader of Missionaries of Charity, which is a group who promote good services to the poor. I think she was a very amazing women who definitely deserved this prize.
ReplyDeleteI chose Paul Modrich because he won a prize for Chemistry and chemistry is not only the subject we are studying in class but one of my favorite subjects in science. Turns out his award was for the mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Basically proving that DNA in all animals and organisms are in constant need of repair (including ourselves). What is really inspiring about Paul is that even after this award was given to him he kept after the quest for more knowledge on this subject.
ReplyDeleteMalala Yousafzai was born July 12th, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan. She won a Noble Prize by fighting for girls’ rights and how every child should be given an education. Malala is truly inspiring. When her country was taken over by the Taliban, and girls became very limited to what they were are able to do, Malala stood up for what she believed in. In 2012 she suffered an attack on her life by the Taliban gunmen. She was shot in the head, but managed to survive. Even after this traumatizing event, she still had the determination to fight for what was right. Malala even stated that if she were attacked by another Taliban gunman, she wouldn’t fight back. All she would simply do is say, “OK, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I’m not against you personally, I just want every girl to go to school.” Her handwork and relentlessness is what allowed her to win a Noble Peace Prize. And now Malala has continued as a leading advocate for girls’ right.
ReplyDeleteI think she's a very inspiring women figure to young girls. She's braking down the stereotypical barriers. Every girl has a right to receiving an education.
DeleteI also agree that Malala is truly deserving of this award.
DeleteI chose Le Duc Tho, some information about him is that he was born October 14 1911 in Nam Ha province, Vietnam. He was a negotiator during the second world war where he negotiated with Henry Kissinger. They both would’ve received the nobel prize but Le Duc Tho actually declined the Nobel Peace Prize because he said that his opposite number had violated the truce. He did this because during the truce Hanoi was bombed on Kissinger's orders. he doesn't have a biography on the official website of the Nobel Prize.
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ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Prize winner I picked is May-Britt Moser. Moser was born on January 4th, 1963 in Fosnavag, Norway. She studied physiology and spatial behavior, these two things she said helped her when she entered the science world. She did studies on the brain and nervous system, where she discovered a type of cell that is important for determining the brain’s positioning system. This is what they found helps navigate humans and animals to be able to have a sense of direction. Without this cell, we as humans and animals would have little to no sense of direction. With this discovery, she was awarded with the Nobel Prize along with her partner, Edward I. I found this very interesting because it shows how having knowledge and background in one area can help you in other fields too, such as the medical field helped Moser in the science world. Sure, both of these fields are very similar, but each complement each other in their innovative discoveries. After learning and reading about the Nobel Prize winners, I think it’s a great thing that people who work hard get the attention they deserve.
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ReplyDeleteAlexandr Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1970. He was living in Russia at the time. He wrote short stories that were about anti Soviet Union. He got harassed at by the Russian and Communist around well. The KGB (spies for the Soviet Union) were also tracking him. So he decided to fool and escape them. For being there number one enemy of the Soviet Union it was quite a simple plan. He would hop on and off trains until he was sure no one was following him and he eventually got away. Like a said before he still lived in Russia at the time when he won but the Soviet Union was no longer tracking him.
James Chadwick was born in the UK on 20 October 1891 and grew up to be a nuclear physicist. In 1930 Herbert Becker and Walter Bothe sent alfa particles against beryllium, strong penetrating radiation was emitted, there was a hypothesis that this could be electromagnetic radiation of high energy. Then in 1932 James Chadwick noticed a neutral particle about the size of a proton had been emitted. The particle was later named the neutron and due to the discovery James Chadwick had been awarded the nobel prize in nuclear physics.
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I came across finding Barack H.Obama in the Nobel Peace Prize section and decided to write about him for this blog post since he is our president and the fact that none of my peers has chosen him.He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his efforts into strengthening international diplomacy and cooperation between people.In adition,he was able to bring the world’s attention and how he gave hope to the people for a better future.Before he was the U.S. president, he was the Illinois State Senate in 1996 and was later the U.S. Senate in 2004.Since he was a good president,people re-elected him in 2012.Personally,I think Barack Obama is an amazing and good president.He did so many good things to the U.S. and he still does to this year. Like for example, the blog post we read about him visiting Alaska.
For this blog post, in honor of this unit's topic, I chose Stefan W. Hell. He was born in 1962, on December twenty third in Arad, Romania. Stefan had won a nobel peace prize in the field of chemistry, meaning he made outstanding contributions to the study. He developed a method in which microscoping will become much clearer to the human eye. He used the force of fluorescence to greater the level of detail in microscoping cells, as well as many other very small objects. His microscope invention is used when identifying cells, one light source causes fluorescent molecules to glow, while another makes the molecule darken. He invented a super resolved fluorescence microscopy that can evidently changed the way scientists look at cells, and other microscoping items.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Professor Hell played an influential role in modern science. If not for his discovery of increasing microscopic possibilities many other Nobel prize winners could not do what they have done in the fields of chemistry, physics, and health.
DeleteRigoberta Menchu was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1992 at the age of 33 "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples." When she was younger she lived in a country with extreme violence. She escaped to mexico in the 80's after members of her family were killed by the army. There she met up with European clubs working towards human rights in latin america, that was where her passion for human rights started to develop and lead her to win the nobel peace prize.
ReplyDeleteWow this is really cool! These winner just make such an impact don't they?
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ReplyDeleteElie Wiesel is the leading spokesman for the Holocaust today. The Wiesel family was taken to Auschwitz in 1944 where immediately his sister and mother were killed in the gas chambers, and his father died before the Americans opened the camp and put an end to the genocide. Elie does not want everybody to just remember the Holocaust but also to fight indifference and abolish the attitude “it’s no concern of mine”. Elie Wiesel is a wonderful model and the world should take note of his lessons. Elie Wiesel was finally rewarded with a Nobel prize in 1986 for his humanitarian work.
I found Nelson Mandela on the peace prize list, and I thought, that was the guy that died and was really important, but I didn't know anything aboout him. So I researced him. He won the Nobel Peace Prize, and I didn't know that, all I knew was that he was the president of South Africa. Athough Nelson split the prize with Frederik Willem de Klerk. They won it "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa". Born on 1918 and sadly dying in 2013 as I remembered the day as it was broadcasted. He was awarded the prize in 1993. And he served 27 years in prison! He was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary. And he was a major role in the develpment of south africa as he was a president. That of course, deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
ReplyDeleteJody Williams studied international politics and became involved in aid work in El Salvador. She worked with children who had lost their arms and legs, by giving them artificial limbs. Many of the patients that she cared for had lost their limbs to landmines, so she decided that something needed to change. By 1991, Jody had launched a campaign against landmines and in 1997 the International Campaign to Ban Landmines had 1,000 organizations from 60 countries on the members list. In 1999 the Ottawa Convention banned the use, production, sale and stockpiling of antipersonnel mines. Jody Williams won the nobel peace prize for her work in banning antipersonnel mines.
ReplyDeleteThe people I decided to read about are Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien, winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and their discovery and development of green fluorescent protein or GFP for short. GFP are proteins found in certain species of jellyfish that as the name suggests glow. When added to different organisms it allows scientists to easily identify harmful organisms like E.coli and certain cancer cells and in the process saving lives.
ReplyDeleteWow! I didn't know that. I think that's amazing how scientists can use this protein to find things that could harm the organism.
DeleteErwin Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize in 1933 in Physics. Schrödinger, who was 46 at the time, worked at Oxford while he developed what would give him his Nobel Prize. Based on Niels Bohr's theory of the atom, Schrödinger set out on a mission to determine the energy levels of atoms and molecules. Through this work, he created the wave-equation, which accurately determined the energy levels and gave him the Nobel Prize. Schrödinger also created the imfamous Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.
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ReplyDeleteThe man I chose was Yoichiro Nambu, he was born in 1921, Tokyo and grew up in the provincial city of Fukui. He studied physics at the Imperial University of Tokyo
and graduated at the level of M.S., He would then later be drafted into an army radar laboratory, at the end of the war he returned to the University as a research associate and revived his doctorate in 1952. In 1950 he became a professor at the newly created Osaka city university and held the position until 1956, But from 1952 to 1954 he stayed at the Institute for advanced study in Princeton, and from 1954 to 1956 a University of Chicago research associate, he was made associate professor in 1956 and, professor in 1958, and distinguished service professor in 1971. From 1973 to 1976 he served as chairman for the department of physics. In 1976 he became Henry Judson distinguished professor, from which position he retired in 1991 and became Emeritus.
In 2008 Nambu was awarded half prize share of the Nobel prize in physics ,for the discovery of "mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics".
I chose Antoine Henri Becquerel, one of the first people to ever get a Nobel Prize in physics. He won because he was credited with the discovery of radioactivity. I chose him because of the story of how he discovered it. While he was running other tests on X-Rays, and how uranium salts are influenced by light. They emitted a penetrating radiation that was picked up by his photographic plate. Further research led to discovering it was a new type of radiation- Radioactivity. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/becquerel-facts.html
ReplyDeleteI chose John O’ Keefe because I think the work he did is important and interesting.John O'keefe was born in 1939 in New York and he went to regis high school in Manhattan. He went to a variety of colleges including the City College of New York and the McGill University in montreal. He received a BA degree, MA degree and a PhD degree in 1967. Since then He has been a college Professor and has been working in the field of physiology and spatial behavior. He was awarded his Nobel Medicine Prize because of his work. He found that the awareness of location we have of caused by the activity of nerve cells in the hippocampus of the brain. He was awarded his prize in 2014 with May-Britt Moser and Edward L Moser.
ReplyDeleteBorn in August 26, in 1910 Teresa of Calcutta also known as Mother Teresa responded to God’s call, at the age of twelve she devoted her life to him. She became a nun which lead for her to receive an education. A key characteristic Teresa is that she was a very generous person, she feed the hungry, helped the poor, her generosity was known world wide. Has the money grew so did were the critics, believing that she glorified poverty. Her generosity won her the Nobel Prize. This catholic nun or many would call her a living saint, sadly died on September 5, 1997.
ReplyDeleteI have decided to write about Tomas Lindahl because I find chemistry to be very interesting. Tomas Lindahl was born 1938 in Stockholm Sweden. The Nobel prize was given to Tomas in 2015, "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair". Tomas was surprised but not 100% surprised that he got the Noble Prize because he knew he was one of the well known scientists in his field (DNA). Tomas was also the first Sweden person to get the Nobel Prize at being 67 years old since Tiselius.
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Mother Teresa was born on 26 August 1910, in Uskup. When she was twelve she was called by God to become a nun of the Catholic church. While in the nunnery, she was given a proper education and then was sent to India to teach less fortunate. Mother Teresa, then, was called by God again to help all the poor people around her. Because of this call she formed the Missionaries of Charity, a sisterhood dedicated to helping those in need. Missionaries of Charity provided services to many people by building homes for them and providing them medical attention. She was later recognized for all the good that she has done for mankind a was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 her for humanitarian work and just eighteen years later she died in 1997.
ReplyDeleteEugene Wigner, Maria Mayer, and J.Hans Jensen divided the 1963 noble prize in physics 1/2 to Wigner,1/4 to Mayer, And 1/4 to Jensen. With Wigner being a Hungarian American theoretical physicist and mathematician, He well deserved his half from, "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"(Nobelprize.org). At the same time Mayer was a German-born American theoretical physicist, who proposed the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus, and was also the second women to ever win a noble prize in physics. Finally,
ReplyDeleteJensen, who was a German nuclear physicist during World War II, his contribution to the noble prize was that he made contributions to the separation of uranium isotopes.
Camillo Golgi was born on July 7th, 1843 in Corteno, Italy. Most of his investigations in the Medicine included the nervous system, insanity, and neurology. Golgi was a famous teacher, and though he never actually practiced medicine, he directed the Department of General Pathology at St.Matteo Hospital to teach young doctors. The work of greatest importance which Golgi carried out was a revolutionary method of staining individual nerve and cell structures, which is referred to as the black reaction. It tested the smallest reactions in cells using amounts of silver nitrate. For all his studies and work on the structure of the nervous system, he shared the Nobel Medicine prize with Santiago Ramón y Cajal in 1906. Golgi’s unique interest in the working of the brain and the ability to be successful without tons of experience was the reason I chose to read about him.
ReplyDeleteFor this week's blog post I decided to talk about Youyou Tu, who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Youyou Tu was born in 1930, in Zhejiang, China and become a researcher at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. She was given the daunting mission of finding the cure to Malaria, a disease that had killed millions in Africa and Asia.
ReplyDeleteSo she was sent to Hainan, a tropical island near China. They couldn’t find anything there, so the research team decided to go to Beijing and scour through Chinese-manuscripts. Within the ancient readings they discovered the cure, sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua). The team was ecstatic, and performed a variety of experiments to prove that it was the cure. Youyou Tu saved millions of people, and stopped the potential universal spread of a deadly infection.
The person I chose was Roger D. Kornberg. He won the 2006 Nobel Chemistry Prize for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription. Roger was born on April 24, 1947. As an alumni of both Stanford and Harvard, he was a very smart man, studying biology. He was a biochemist and a professor of structural biology. During this time, he was doing a lot of research on DNA and RNA. In the middle of all of his research, he made the discovery of eukaryotic transcription. Eukaryotic transcription is the process that eukaryotic cells use to copy genetic information stored in DNA into units of RNA replica. That is a big step and addition to science.
ReplyDeleteI chose the 2014 nobel prize winners in physics, Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura. They won for their invention of efficient blue LEDs. To create white light that is usable for lighting, a combination of red, green, and blue light. Blue light is much harder to create than red or green light. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura successfully found a way to create efficient blue light in the 1980s. Their creation enabled bright and energy-saving white light.
ReplyDeleteI have chosen Martin Luther King Jr, the most well known nobel winner in america. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and was the youngest person ever to do so. He easily won it for his peaceful fights to have both African Americans, and white people the same. He did this so well that he became the civil rights leader and now has a day after him. With all of this you can see that he truly left an impact on America as a whole.
ReplyDeleteHow is it possible that a computer the size of a credit card can be so much more powerful than a computer the size of a warehouse? There are many reasons, but one large factor is the ability to fit huge amounts of wire into a small card, or computer chip. Jack Kilby’s invention of the integrated circuit minimized the size of electronics so much that he won part of the Nobel Prize in physics in the year 2000 for his creation that was 41 years old at the time of the award. His invention of the integrated circuit had use in military, industrial, and commercial fields. From calculators to guided missile systems, they wouldn’t be possible if it weren’t for Kilby. Without Kilby’s circuit discovery we would still be in the stone age of electronics.
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ReplyDeleteI chose J. J. Thompson for my Nobel Prize winner because I remember him from an 8th grade project. His discovery of electrons has helped us greatly in our chemistry unit. Through experiments on how gasses conduct electricity, Thompson discovered that electrons were a part of the atom. He showed that cathode rays, when shown in a low pressure gas tube, and when a voltage is put between two metal plates shows particles that carry electricity. These are electrons, and they are the reason that Thompson won the Nobel Physics Prize in 1906.
I choose Toni Morrison, a poet who wrote about empowerment in African American women. She provided a voice for a group of people in our society through peace and literature. Morrison also addressed the male-dominated world and persuaded women to not refrain from taking a stand. She presented ideas of modern day feminism and influenced society to take steps towards gender equality in order to form a more well functioning society in the future.
ReplyDeleteFor this post, I chose Robert Koch. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1905, he did not share the award with anyone else. He won the prize for his discoveries to the relation of tuberculosis. Koch was a German scientist who died in 1910, at the age of 66. He was in the field of bacteriology and transmission disease. He foreshadowed his future, young when he taught himself to read with the help of newspaper. He worked and experimented in his house until 1880. He won a German prize in 1883 for his work with cholera. Koch did marry and had one daughter. Koch was awarded many medals and awards for his works. Overall, Koch was a very successful scientist that contributed much to all of science.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel prize in medicine of 1906 went to 2 men named Camillio and Santiago because the exposed the busty of researching the very intercit design of the nervous system. This process first started when Camillio start research of this grey matter. He started by using a silver injection that exposed the more detailed parts of the brain. This technique was never acknowledged till Santiago started using it in his young animal research. This is how the theory or a brain and spinal cord are made up of individually working units came to life and how more in depth research of the brain was formed. This discovery lead to many others. One break through can make such a different. That is why these to men split the prize.
ReplyDeleteFor this blog I chose Aziz Sancar. He was born in 1946 in savur,turkey. His motivation that led him to winning the prize was for mechanism studies of D.N.A repair. He was awarded the 2015 Nobal Prize in chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L Modrich. He attended Instanbul University of turkey where he earned his M.D, And later on completed his Ph.D on photoreactivating enzyme of E. coli at the Unversity of Texas in dallas.
ReplyDeleteThe winner I picked is Carl Von Ossietzky. Carl did not get very good academic achievements leaving school when he was only 17. Early in his career he started to work as a journalist and criticized a pro military court decision which he got charges against him for, that his wife ended up paying without him knowing because he refused to pay. A few years later he was drafted into the german military despite his poor health, this influenced him to late become a democratic pacifist when he returned home. Because he was a pacifist he joined an anti war publication while in this he funded the republican party. Carl became imprisoned after he exposed the germans secret violation of the treaty of versailles. In 1933 hitler came into power and promptly sent him to a concentration camp where he had to do hard labor despite his poor health. In 1936 he won the award because his exposure and he was taken out of the concentration camp, but then was intercepted by the Germans and brought to a hospital where he was kept in till he died.
ReplyDeleteFor my Nobel prize winner I chose Eric R. Kandel. Along with two others, he won the nobel prize in 2000, for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system. Kandel mostly studied neurobiology and memory. He discovered how the brain contains short and long term memories differently. This discovery has lead to many new discoveries and things we know about the human brain today. I chose Eric R. Kandel because I think he made a really interesting discovery that has helped science today.
ReplyDeleteToni Morrison is considered to be one of the most influential American authors of all time. Born in 1931 as Chloe Anthony Wofford, Toni Morrison’s upbringing was very different than that of other African Americans during that time: one with little segregation, or at least segregation that Morrison would’ve noticed. However, adversity - including racism - did come later in life, as Morrison’s parents struggled to hold up the family financially, and she herself eventually became a single parent. These difficulties are translated into a lot of Morrison’s works later on. The author of many American novels, Morrison has received every kind of review imaginable for her works. However, to this day her most widely acclaimed piece is Beloved, the narrative of a former slave women struggling with both her morals and the supernatural. Because of her influence on the literary world, in 1993 Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in literature. This made Toni Morrison the first African American women to be recognised in that category, and rightfully so. During her long career - that continues to this day - Morrison has managed to bring up the important issue of racism in her strong writing voice.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Prize went to Peyton Rous in for physiology and medicine in 1966. He got this from his discovery of tumor inducing viruses. Born in Baltimore in 1879 with a creative mind gave him the power he needed to change medical technology forever. It began in 1911 when he successfully removed a tumor from a hen. He then moved the "tumor cells" from the infected hen to other hens which then developed tumors. He had found out the first steps in a whole new world of tumor information and technology. After his long and fullfilled life, he died in 1970 at the age of 59.
ReplyDeleteIn 2014 Malala Yousafzai was the Nobel Peace Prize. In early 2009, Malala began writing articles for the BBC about living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. She thought the treatment was unfair, and she was upset that women are denied an education. She refused to heed the warning from the Taliban, and kept going to school. One day on her way home from school the bus was stopped by the group, then they entered the bus an shot Malala in the head, it was supposed to be taken as a last straw warning. Despite her injuries Malala did not stop her promotion for peace and equality in women's education.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Prize winner I chose was Malala Yousafzai. I chose her because she was determined to get herself and many other girls her age, a proper education. It’s illegal where she’s from, but that didn’t stop her. Neither did getting shot in the head. Though she was transferred to a safer place, she continues to speak out about the importance of education.
ReplyDeleteI decided to do my blog post on the 1975 winner of the literature Nobel prize, Eugenio Montale. He got the prize due to his distinctive poetry that included human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusion. Montale was born in Genoa, Italy in 1896. He mostly taught himself how to write, and serves as an infantryman in World War One. I chose him because I like poetry and thought he would be interesting.
ReplyDeleteI chose Martin Luther king jr for my winner of the Nobel peace prize. He received the award on December 10 1964. Luther was arguably one of the best figures in protesting racial diversity. He argued peacefully and always preached kindness over violence. He really opened up many racial barriers faced by many African Americans in segregation
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