The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901....now 115 years later, there are a grand total of 911 Nobel Laureates. How cool is that? A couple of weeks ago, the winners for 2016 were announced. This year Bob Dylan is the first musician to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Instead of reading his lyrics as music, scholars suggest reading the lyrics as poetry.
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.
This year, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within a great American song tradition”. Bob is the 911th award winner. Bob Dylan is the first Musician to win the Literature Nobel Prize. He won the prize because he is constantly reinventing himself and his music. He has also been creating music for 54 years now. And he embodies the American tradition. Bob Dylan is excellent at rhyming and putting together refrains, and he is great mind as well. These traits let the Nobel Committee to chose Bob Dylan as the 2016 Nobel Literature Prize.
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ReplyDeleteElie Wiesel was born in Romania in 1928 as a jew. At the age of 15 he and his family were sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp. He was able to survive the camp until it was liberated. After he recovered from the shock, he became a journalist in France. His successful memoir “Night”was about his eye-opening experiences during the holocaust. He never wanted to write about his experiences, as it must have stirred up many unwanted memories. He did, though. One of his many powerful quotes is “The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference". Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. He wrote about his pain and humility for the benefit of others. His first-hand accounts have helped many people really understand the holocaust and learn from it. That is why I think he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
AIDS and HIVS have been a huge issue that has affected 1000s of people and still does. Before 1983 no one knew what caused AIDS. In 1983, Luc Montagnier as well has three other scientist discovered what has been causing this terrible disease; Human Immunodeficiency Virus or better known as HIV. Montagnier was born August 18th 1932 and 8 years later World War II had started. In high school he excelled and became interested in scientific knowledge and followed the example of his father by setting up a chemistry lab in his cellar. Montagnier went to the Faculty of Sciences in Poitiers where a new professor introduced him to a new biology, the DNA double helix. In 1957, Montagnier determined his vocation: to become a virologist using the modern approach of molecular biology. In 2008 Luc Montagnier won the Nobel Prize in Medicine along side three others for his discovery of HIV and how it’s the cause of AIDS. This discovery has been crucial to finding treatments methods for AIDS sufferers.
ReplyDeleteA few weeks ago the winners of the Nobel Prizes were announced. To everyone's surprise, Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature. Mr. Dylan is the first musician in history to ever have the Nobel Prize for literature. Naturally, it has been a very controversial decision. The award was given to him because of the deep, profound messages in his music, usually addressing race, war, and inequality. Not only did his music send a powerful message, they tell history. His lyrics tell the story if the past and voiced the feelings of the struggling. Bob Dylan’s music has had a great effect to the generations who grew up with his music and greatly shaped the minds of all who listened. Dylan, now 75, is still playing his music just recently at the Desert Trip in California, shortly before he received his prize.
ReplyDelete“Darkness cannot drive out of darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out of hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin was an activist leader for the African American Civil Rights Movement and a American Baptist. His dream was for all people to be judged based on their personalities and qualities, not the color of their skin. King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, led the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, and organized several nonviolent protest including those in Birmingham, St. Augustine, Selma, and New York City. August 28, 1963 was the day of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the famous 17 minute “ I Have a Dream Speech”. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent battle against racial inequality. In addition to his Nobel Peace Prize, King also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated April 4th, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. After the tragic death of Martin Luther King, Jr., a U.S. federal holiday was established in his honor. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
ReplyDeleteMother Theresa, was the winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was born the 26th of August in 1910 as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Uskup (now Skopje) which lay in Ottoman Empire (now Republic of Macedonia). At the age of twelve she felt she was being called to serve God and she went to get an education under the nuns. When she grew up she was sent to Calcutta, India to be a teacher which is where she found her second calling, to help the poor and needy there. She established an order of Sisters, called the Missionaries of Charity, that would help care for and tend the poor and sick people. Her order built homes for orphans, nursing homes, and hospices to care for the lepers and terminally ill. Her order spread all around the world and she received many donations from people grateful for the work of her order in caring for people who had no one else to care for them.
ReplyDeleteFor my Nobel Prize winner, I chose Ernst Ruska, the winner in Physics in 1986. Ernst was born on December 25th, 1906, in Heidelberg, Germany. He quickly made his presence known, by making an impact within his first 30 years. Before his time, microscopes were invented to see very small objects, but not anything as small as the wavelength of light. The discovery that beams of electrons act as waves with wavelengths that is even smaller than light opened up new opportunities in his field. Ernst became known by stating that a magnetic coil could be used as a lens for electron beams. In 1933, he made the first electron microscope. This new design captures images of microscopic items by electron beams and these beams can direct towards objects, which can be captured on certain screens. For this reason, Ernst Ruska won half of the Nobel Prize. He won “for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope.” He continued to work in the electron optics field as a director and professor for 41 years before retiring. Ernst passed away two years after receiving the award, but his contributions will not be forgotten by people. Many scientists today use the electron microscope to help get better imaging of small objects.
ReplyDeleteMalala Yousafzai was born on the 12th of July, 1997, in Mingora Pakistan. After the Taliban began occupying the Swat Valley, they banned girls from attending school, and attacked those who did. Malala, the daughter of an educational activist, began anonomously blogging for the BBC about life under Taliban occupation and her views and girls education. The 11 year-old would handwrite notes and pass them on to a reporter. Taliban continued to destroy schools in the area, with more than a hundred blown up. She began speaking publicly at protest events, and eventually recieved the National Youth Peace Prize. On the 9th of October 2012, Taliban gunmen stopped Malala’s schoolbus and came inside. The identified Malala and shot at her. She was hit once. The bullet went through her head and neck before becoming lodged in her shoulder. She was 14. After 5 hours of surgery and 6 days in a coma, Malala fully recovered. Since then, she has met with the United Nations, Queen Elizabeth II, President Barack Obama, and founded the Malala Fund, a charity to helped girls in need of education. In 2014, Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize, making her the youngest laureate of all time at age 17.
ReplyDeleteMother Teresa, the winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Award, has always been a big part of my life. She was greatly known throughout my small school. Most people know her for being a nun, saint, or a religious character. Mother Teresa did more than that though. Yes, she was a humble woman and was later announced a saint, but in her lifetime she helped out mostly, the Calcutta slums. This is a place in India, which is presently known as Kolkata. She devoted her time to helping out the all girls, Roman Catholic school there. Years later, she left her teaching post to work with the “poorest of the poor in the slums of that city”. Kolkata is known to be the home to the Mother House. These headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity, is founded by Mother Teresa, whose tomb is on site. Due to this dedication, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Award of 1979.
ReplyDeleteWilliam A. Fowler was born on August 9, 1911 and died on March 14, 1955. He was an astrophysicist and theorized about the nuclear reactions that create stars in space. He described that as a gravitational force pulls clouds of gas together, it starts to generate energy in the form of heat and will eventually ignite once the temperature has exceeded a certain point. This also leads to him pointing out how the plentiful elements are formed in this process and how celestial bodies depend on nuclear reaction of the star to create the diversity of elements. For his academic work, William Fowler was awarded the Nobel Physics Prize in 1983.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the most honorable of people on this Earth, no matter what background they have. 2 years ago, the youngest receiver of the Nobel Prize was Malala Yousafzai. At the age of 17, she was awarded this honor for her work to allow all girls an opportunity to attend school. She was born in northwestern Pakistan in the Swat district. Documenting her experience of witnessing the Taliban’s increasing power in the area through a blog, Malala was attacked on the school bus home in an act to attempt to assassinate her. She lived, but had to undergo multiple surgeries. She now lives in the UK where she continues to be a leading advocate for girls’ right to an education.
ReplyDeleteYoshinori Ohsumi was born in 1945 in Fukoaka, Japan. He won the nobel prize for "his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. He started his work in autophagy 27 years ago, and has been pursuing it ever since. He was affiliated with the Tokyo Institue of Technology, Tokyo, Japan at the time of the award. For all of Ohsumi's amazing work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2016.
ReplyDeleteSeamus Heaney was born in 1939, he grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland. He was the eldest of nine kids and his father was a cattle dealer. Seamus attended a Catholic boarding school for his elementary-high school years he then went to school at St. Joseph's College in Belfast in the early 1960s and began publishing his poetry in 1976. They gained popularity because his poems were “works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.” In 1995, he then won the Nobel Prize for literature. Many iconic authors have called Heaney the “greatest poet of our age” and the “best irish poet since Yeats.” He was then a professor of English and Poetry at Harvard until 2010 when he moved back to his home in Dublin. He died in 2013 after living a long, fulfilled life.
ReplyDeleteJuan Manuel Santos was awarded this years Nobel Peace Prize.He was awarded the Noble Peace Prize for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year long civil war to end.Juan Santos was born on August 10,1951 in Bogata, Colombia.Santos attended the Naval Academy of Cartagena before traveling to the United States to earn a B.A in economical and buisness at the University of Kansas in 1973.He then went on to add a masters degree in public administration from Harvard University in 1981 before returning to Colombia to work as an editor at El Tiempo.Juan was born into an influential political family.His great uncle Eduardo Santos Montejo was Colombia's president from 1938-1942,and his cousin Francisco Santos Calderon served as vice president from 2002-2010.And in 2016 Santos was given the Noble Peace prize for his determination and effort to end the war.
ReplyDeleteOut of the four women to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize in chemistry, Marie Curie was the second. Born November 7th 1867, in Warsaw,Russian Empire, or as we call it today Poland, Marie Curie was born to a family full of educators, who later sent her off to a college in Paris called University of Paris in 1893 to earn her master's degree in physics. While continuing her studies she met Pierre Curie, who was not only her partner in the field of radioactivity but also her husband. The couple ended up winning a Nobel Peace Prize in physics together, shortly after Pierre passed away in 1903. Afterwards Marie continued to study the two radioactive elements polonium and radium, and proved that radium was a metal by producing the first form of it, thus making its existence no longer questioned. Her motivation for winning the prize was the advancement in chemistry and the ability to study elements and nature. Radioactive compounds are important in sources of radiation in the scientific and medical field, without Marie Curie's discoveries we wouldn’t have treatment for cancer patients, X-Rays, energy producing nuclear power plants, sterilization for medical instruments, the ability to restore sight for the bling and we would also be without nuclear reactors. July 4th 1939, in Sallanches, located near Paris, France, Marie Curie died due to a bone marrow disease called Aplastic anemia, likely due to the amount of radioactive exposure she had while working in the scientific field for a prolonged period of time.
ReplyDeleteWilhelm Conrad Rötgen was the winner of the 1901 physics prize. He discovered lights that could see inside the body (X-Ray). His discovery was put in almost every news paper and scientific publication. He received the Nobel prize because of the Benifit that his discovery made to the world. Doctors saw the capabilitys and within a week x-rays were used to diagnose bone fractures and much more.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911. His father was a school teacher and his mother was a suffragette. He went to school at Marlborough Grammar School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. He spent 5 years at Oxford and then published a series of poems in 1935. Golding then went on to teach at Bishop Wordsworth’s School Salisbury. He joined the Royal Navy in 1940 and served in the war for many years. After that, he returned to teaching, and began to write his first novel, Lord of the Flies, which was published in 1954.He wrote many more novels after that. His last one was Fire Down Below, published in 1989, and then he died on June 19, 1993. William Golding won the Nobel Prize in Literature 1983, "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today".
ReplyDeleteRudyard Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1907. He was born in the year 1865 in India, and passed in the year 1936 in the United Kingdom. He was well known as a writer for short stories, resulting in achieving fame quickly. Kipling was the poet of The British Empire. He was best known as the author of The Jungle Book, which became a children’s classic all around the world. He wrote many stories about the common soldier and wrote some propaganda books during World War I. Rudyard Kipling won this award because of his power of observation, original imagination, amazing ideas, and great talent for narration.Kipling was a world famous author.
ReplyDeleteIn 1901 Emil von Behring was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy. It was the first ever Nobel Prize given away for Physiology or Medicine. He found a cure for Diphtheria. Diphtheria took thousands of lives before 1901. He opened a new way for medical science and established a victorious weapon against illnesses.
ReplyDeleteJames Watson was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 6, 1928. At the time that he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, he was affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. He won the prize in 1953 for determining the structure of DNA molecule. Although, he got one-third of the prize because he also helped discover it with Francis Crick and Oswald Avery. In 1944, Avery proved DNA is the bearer of organisms’ genetic code and Watson and Crick were able to build off of that discovery to later determine the structure of DNA. He won the prize because he set the base for many more scientific breakthroughs over time.
ReplyDeleteIvan Petrovich Pavlov, born 14 September 1849, Ryazan, Russia, died 27 February 1936, Leningrad, Russia, was awarded the nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1904. Pavlov discovered a law, known as pavlov’s law. This law is about classical conditioning and not in the kind of way of shampooing and conditioning your hair. He made dogs associate an unconditioned stimulus that brings about a reflex with a new (conditioned) stimulus, so that the new stimulus brings out the same response. An example of this law would be a group of children getting lunch at the same time everyday. I read this story online, so ill tell you what happened in a shorter fashion. Basically everyday, the kids would have lunch about 4 hours into school and the teacher would say “lunch time!” every time. One of the students decided to knock on their desk a few times right before the teacher would say “lunch time” everyday, to condition them into associating the knocks with food. After about a month, the students were completely conditioned and the other student decided to test it out. About an hour into school the student knocked on their desk a few times and all of the other students looked straight at their lunches, some stomachs growled, others cried because it wasn't lunch time but they were hungry because they heard the knocks. This student conditioned the others into associating the knocks with lunch time and that's basically the same thing Pavlov did but with dogs.
ReplyDeleteErnest Rutherford was born August 30th, 1871 in Nelson, New Zealand. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908. He was nominated “for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.” In 1899, he demonstrated that there were at least two types of radiation: alpha radiation and beta radiation. He discovered that radioactive preparations gave rise to the formation of gases. Working with Frederick Soddy, Rutherford came up with the hypothesis that helium gas could be formed from radioactive substances. In 1902, they came up with the theory that elements could disintegrate and be transformed into other substances.
ReplyDeleteTheodore Roosevelt was born in 1858 and died in 1919. He was the first statesman to win the peace prize. His win was controversial because he was viewed as imperialistic warmonger. Swedish newspapers wrote that Albert Nobel was turning in his grave at this choice. The reason he received the prize was making peace between the Japanese and Russians in 1905.
ReplyDeleteJoseph John Thomson more commonly known as JJ. Thompson was born on the 18th of December 1856 in Cheetham Hill, near Manchester, United Kingdom. He later went on to Trinity college in Cambridge. He later became head of the head of the Cavendish Laboratory (The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences) Through his research of cathode rays he discovered the Electron and after discovered more things in the atomic field. He won the Nobel Prize in 1906 in physics. He passed away on August 30, 1940.
ReplyDeleteJacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff was the first Nobel Laureate in Chemistry was rewarded this reward for explaining osmotic pressure and its importance in plant and animal life during his Nobel Lecture. He was born on 30 August, 1852, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and died on March 1, 1911, in Germany. He was a professor in Amsterdam but decided to move to Berlin for a higher research position. During the 1870s and 1880s, Jacobus Hendricus van 't Hoff made contributions to both the structure of molecules and various sequences of events. He is also considered one of the founders of physical chemistry.
ReplyDeleteJohn Steinbeck was an American author born in 1902 and who died in 1968. Steinbeck was made famous when "Tortilla Flat", became widely known. Steinbeck's novels are all social novels that he uses to depict economic problems of rural labor,usually aggressive in its criticisms. He published many books, including "Of Mice and Men", "The Long Valley", and "The Grapes of Wrath". John Steinbeck was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature 11 times, but only won once, in 1962. He was nominated "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception".
ReplyDeleteSaving lives and helping countries through natural disasters. This is the day job of the employees and voluteers of the American Red Cross. All of this began 135 years ago with a man named Henry Dunant. He later went on to win the Nobel piece prize for medicine in 1901. Henry was known for pouring his time and money into the Red Cross. Traveling the world to ask countries to send representatives to his company. This caused him to go bankrupt and live outside of a home for quite a while. However he endured these bad times and let them make home the man he was later in his life.
ReplyDeleteMartin Luther King Jr was born on January 29 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1964, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent fight against racism. He believed people should be judged by their personality, not the color of their skin. In 1963, he made his famous “I have a dream” speech, when many people marched to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. where he made the speech. The president at the time, Lyndon B. Johnson, passed a law prohibiting racial discrimination. King was murdered on April 4 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
ReplyDeleteJean Triole was awarded the nobel peace prize “For his analysis of market power and regulation.” Jean was born on August 9, 1953. His life's work was regulating large companies. He has a PhD in economics from MIT. In 1976 he joined the engineering corps of roads and bridges. He benefited society by developing a model to address the problem of regulation benefiting those who produce products rather than the people who buy and use those products.
ReplyDeleteEmil von Behring was born on March 15, 1854 in Hansdorf, West Prussia. At a young age Emil was a talented theology student. A military doctor was able to get Emil to study at the University of Berlin, where he could start his medical studies. He was able to get a scholarship, where he studied at the Academy for Military Doctors at the Royal Medical-Surgical Friedrich-Wilhelm-Institute. This is also where he got his medical degree. After he worked as a military doctor, he became the assistant of Robert Koch, one of the pioneers of bacteriology. This is where his first authoritative publication on diphtheria and tetanus serum therapy appeared. Emil along with Koch had managed to develop the first effective therapeutic serum against diphtheria. At the same time, together with Shibasaburo Kitasato, Emil developed an effective therapeutic serum against tetanus. The mediences were first introduced in 1891. These medicines became very effective in the latter months of World War 1. So when 1901 came around, the Nobel Prizes were awarded for the first time, Behring received the Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
ReplyDeleteBernard L. Feringa was born may 18th, 1941 in Compascuum in the Netherlands. He obtained his Phd at the university of Groningen. He was eventually appointed proffeser in 1988, after working as a research scientist for shell. After this, he and his group began to develope experties on organic chemistry, nano technology, and asymmetric catalysis. Bernard L. Feringa received his reward this year for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. His work is ranked highly compared to many other discoveries this year. It helped to discover molecular moters, and switches. He also helped in the discovery of a variety of other things in the field of chemistery including things in the field of synthetic and physical organic chemistry. He and his team poineered the field of chemistry.
ReplyDeleteMax Born was born on December 11, 1882 in Breslau, Germany. Max Born contributed to the further development of quantum mechanics. He also proved that Erwin Schrödinger's wave equation could be interpreted as giving statistical predictions of variables. Max Born won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Walther Bothe. Max Born was nominated and won “for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wave function”. Max Born died sixteen years later on January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, West Germany.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most honorable awards you can be gifted is the Nobel peace prize. One person is awarded each year, meaning lots of competition for this gold coin. I chose to write about Lhamo Dondrub, the 14th Dalai Lama that was awarded in 1989. He lives in India and is a buddhist monk. His inspirations were Gandhi and various other Dalai Lamas. He was awarded the nobel peace prize for his efforts of a peaceful resolution from the struggle of the liberation of Tibet.
ReplyDeleteThe liberation of Tibet is best explained as a peace agreement for the citizens of Tibet, a city in China. Lhamo Dondrub was the main writer of this important document, giving him a bigger platform to explain his views on peace.
In 2008 Martti Ahtisaari won the nobel peace prize "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.” Martti was born in Vyborg, Finland on June 23. The year 1939-40 the town was annexed by the Soviet Union and its inhabitants were driven out. So from Martti living through that it only pushed him harder to commit to peace. I found it interesting that he himself went through this during his childhood and that is what made him pursue this. In 1989-90 Ahtisaari was a major contributor when Namibia achieved independence but also arbitrated in Kosovo in 1999 and 2005-07. Which is one of the many examples he did to deserve this award. He was also President of Finland in 1994 to 2000, after he served his term he did others works involving peace for instance establishing Crisis Management Initiative (CMI). I think an important part that he did was he took action.
ReplyDeleteMuhammad Yunus was born on 28 June 1940 and is 76 years old. Muhammad Yunus was awarded a noble peace prize in 2006 for microcredit and microfinance. The companies concept was to give loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans in third world countries. This helped out so many struggling entrepreneurs get much needed cash to help start up there business. Muhammad Yunus says "Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. All human beings are born entrepreneurs." Muhammad deserves the noble peace prize because he gave millions of people an opportunity to get out of poverty.
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ReplyDeleteLloyd S. Shapley received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Science Economics in 2012. He received this award along with Alvin E. Roth for their practice of market design. But what he really spent time studying was different matching methods, that would allow different people to come together in economics. Lloyd Shapley was born and raised in Cambridge, Minnesota. He studied math at Harvard University. One thing that stood out to me about Shapley is that he stopped his education for a while to serve in the army during World War II. Thanks to his hard work, today Stable matches exist. This means that there are no two agents who prefer one another over their current counterparts.
John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salina, California. The only son of a family with modest means, he worked his way through college at Stanford University. He did not earn a degree, but rather went to NYC to pursue his passion for writing. Some of his famous writings include Tortilla Flat, Of Mice And Men, Grapes of Wrath, and The Long Valley. All of his works are considered social novels which focused on the economic and social challenges of rural America. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writing, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." (Nobelprize.org) His awarding did not come without controversy. He had been nominated 8 times previously. And many close to the Swedish Academy, including prize committee members, felt Steinbeck was simply the best choice of a bad lot of nominees. He passed away on December 20, 1968 in NYC. His Noble medal was gifted by his family to the Stanford University Library in 2005.
ReplyDelete“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.” - Kofi Annan
ReplyDeleteOne person I enjoyed learning about was Kofi Annan. He was born on April 8, 1938, in Kumasi, Gold Coast (Now Ghana). He attended a Methodist school and a technical college in his home country before continuing his academic studies in Switzerland and the United States. He pursued a career in the United Nations system until 1993, when he was appointed Deputy Secretary-General for peacekeeping operations until 1997. In 2001, its centennial year, the Nobel Committee decided that the Peace Prize would be divided between the UN and the world organization’s secretary-general, Kofi Annan. Annan was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for having re-energizing the UN and for having given priority to human rights. They also recognized him for his commitment to the struggle to contain the spreading of the HIV Virus in Africa and his declared opposition to terrorism.
Ernest Hemmingway, born July 21st, 1899 in Oak Park Illinois. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature year of 1954. "For his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style". He wrote novels like, "The Garden of Eden", "A Farewell to Arms", along with some short stories, like "In Our Time", "Men Without Women". He died finally at the age of 61, twenty days until his 62nd birthday, July 2nd, 1961.
ReplyDeletePaul C. Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield both won the nobel prize for Physics in 2003. They won this award for discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging. Lauterbur attended the University of Illinois and Mansfield attended the University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy. They contributed to society because they made an advancement in medical diagnostics. An MRI uses magnetic fields and pulses of radio wave energy to make pictures of organs and structures inside the body. With this you can detect structural abnormalities, the difference between normal and abnormal tissue is clearer with an MRI scan than a CT scan.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most well known scientists in the world was surely a nobel prize winner. Albert Einstein born in Munich, Germany was most accomplished for his contribution to theoretical physics. Einstein was married twice and had three kids from his first marriage. He immigrated to the United States and worked at Princeton. He won the nobel prize in chemistry because of his work in theoretical physics especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
ReplyDeleteAfter looking through a lot of the Nobel Prize winners I decided to choose Malala to write and learn more about. I remember hearing a lot about her a few years ago when she first one the prize but I never really fully understood all the struggles she was going through. She was born in Pakistan and she blogged about how her life was with the influence of the Taliban group all around her. In 2012 the Taliban attempted to assassinate her on the bus home from school, and while she survived, she had to undergo several operations in the UK. Malala's goal was to make sure the rights of children and young people were respected in order to achieve a peaceful world. Since the young age of 11 years old Malala has been fighting for girls right of education. Since that day when the Taliban attacked her she has continued her fight for girls rights and is now a leading advocate of girls rights.
ReplyDeleteIn 1945 Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, and Sir Howard Walter Florey won the Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine. They were all colleague's and they tested the drug on mice. They put a little bit more penicillin in the mice than a normal dosage but they survived unharmed. Penicillin is an antibacterial drug that can cure things such as ear infections. Without Florey, Chain, and Fleming, Penicillin wouldn't exist to help get rid of small inconveniences such as ear aches.
ReplyDeleteTheodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 2016. He was the first statesman to be awarded the Nobel Peace prize, but for the first time in history of the prize it was controversial. It was said that Norway gave the prize to Theodore in order to win powerful friends. He received the prize because he negotiated peace in the Russo-Japanese war. He also resolved a dispute with mexico. His life adventure ended on January 6, 1919.
ReplyDeleteRobert Koch won the Nobel prize in medicine in 1905. He made discoveries on tuberculosis. That’s a disease affecting tissue in the lungs. Robert conducted many studies on tuberculosis. He tried finding a cure but it was not possible.
ReplyDeleteFor my nobel prize winner I chose Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolfvon Baeyer, winner of the nobel chemistry prize. Born on October 31 1835, in Berlin, Prussia (now Germany), Johann won for his advancement in organic chemistry and the chemical industry. More specifically, he worked on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds.This allowed companies to manufacture dyes manually instead of extracting them from plants. This process was much more efficient.
ReplyDeleteJane Addams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. She was the second woman to get the Peace Prize. In 1919 she founded Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and when she was in the USA she helped the poor and worked to stop child labor for industrial use. Addams was in the USA at the time she won the award, and she died four years after winning. Jane Addams shared the Peace Prize with Nicholas Murray.
ReplyDeleteEnrico Fermi was born on September 29, 1901 in Rome, Italy. Fermi was enlisted during WWII to help the US along with the Manhattan Project. Prior to that in 1932, the neutron was discovered, he used these and irradiated heavy atoms to create radioactive isotopes. In 1934, Enrico and his team discovered that if you slow down neutrons, the interaction rate of the nuclei increases. This led to the discovery and creation of the Atomic Bomb.
ReplyDeleteAlbert Einstein was born in 1879 in Germany. He won his nobel prize in 1922 "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."Albert Einstein explained that light consists of quanta - "packets" with fixed energies corresponding to certain frequencies. One such light quantum, a photon, must have a certain minimum frequency before it can liberate an electron. He died18 April 1955, in Princeton, NJ, USA
ReplyDeleteFor my Nobel Prize winner I chose Lech Walesa. Lech Walesa received the Peace Prize for his campaign for freedom of organization in Poland. Lech Walesa was born on September 29th 1943,in Popowo, Poland. He was a Trade union leader at the time. During a strike in 1980, Walesa managed to enter the Lenin yard, and led the negotiations with the authorities. These ended in a victory for the Solidarity union because workers, intellectuals and the Catholic church had formed a united front. By doing this he ended up helping Poland become liberalized. Eventually he became the president of Poland.
ReplyDeleteErnest Rutherford was born August 30th, 1871 in Nelson, New Zealand. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908. He was nominated “for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.” In 1899, he demonstrated that there were at least two types of radiation: alpha radiation and beta radiation. He discovered that radioactive preparations gave rise to the formation of gases. Working with Frederick Soddy, Rutherford came up with the hypothesis that helium gas could be formed from radioactive substances. In 1902, they came up with the theory that elements could disintegrate and be transformed into other substances.
ReplyDeleteHenri Moissan won the nobel prize in chemistry in 1906. He was born in Paris and furthered his studies at Collège de Meaux and later at Edmond Frémy's laboratory at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle. In 1892, Moissan theorized that diamonds could be synthesized by crystallizing carbon under pressure from molten iron. He designed and developed the electric air furnace. which could attain temperatures up to 3,500 degrees Celsius. and in 1891 he discovered carborundum. overall Henri was a brilliant chemist who discovered many things and deserved the Nobel Prize
ReplyDeleteHermann J. Muller was born December 21, 1890, in New York, and died April 5, 1967. He attended Columbia University, and he had a interest in genetics. After graduating from Columbia University he worked as an assistant in zoology, worked at several schools, eventually becoming a professor, and during his time working at Houston University he was most productive on working with mutations. The possibility of consciously guiding the evolution of man was the initial motive for Muller’s scientific work. Muller did research on fruit flies that he exposed to x-rays to see mutations (changes in genetic code) that occurred. He was also able to demonstrate the mutations that occurred that were the result of breakages in chromosomes and of changes in individual genes. This highly original discovery gave him his reputation as a geneticists and also eventually gave him the Nobel Prize.
ReplyDeleteJody Williams was born on October 9th, 1950 in Putney, Vermont. Jody was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) in 1997. She won the award for her work in banning and clearing anti-personnel landmines. She became an activist on the topic when she spent time, studying world politics, in war-torn El Salvador during the 1980s. Landmines were a constant threat to the civilian lives and she was given the task of providing artificial limbs for children who had lost their arms and legs. The Ottawa Convention was signed by 120 states and bans the use, production, sale and stock-piling of anti-personnel landmines. The Ottawa Convention will always be associated with the names of Jody Williams and the ICBL.
ReplyDeleteObama was only in office for fewer than 8 months before he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Why he won it, though, is controversial. Even himself, as a joke on Stephen Colbert’s late night show, said “To be honest, I still don’t know” why he won the prize. Leaving out the politics behind it, Obama won the Nobel Peace prize because of “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". During his first 7-8 months as president, he called out to the Muslim Community and pushed for new relations between them and the West based on mutual understanding and respect. He also scaled back the war in Afghanistan by removing some of U.S. enforcement. I think this is a sign to American History, one of many, that President Barack Obama is a President to remember.
ReplyDeleteGeorges pire won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958. He was born in Dinant, Belgium on February 10th. Pire won the award for helping European refugees by bringing them food, clothes and water, or anything they needed for support. He founded villages and small houses for the refugees too. Pire won the prize for his “humanitarian work” and for his help towards the Europeans. Overall Pire easily deserved to win this prize because of how helped others.
ReplyDeleteJohn Steinbeck was an American author born in 1902 and who died in 1968. Steinbeck was made famous when "Tortilla Flat", became widely known. Steinbeck's novels are all social novels that he uses to depict economic problems of rural labor,usually aggressive in its criticisms. He published many books, including "Of Mice and Men", "The Long Valley", and "The Grapes of Wrath". John Steinbeck was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature 11 times, but only won once, in 1962. He was nominated "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception".
ReplyDeleteRoger Y. Tsien was born February 1st, 1952. He was born in China. His father was a big inspiration to him. And as a kid, he was realy into logical thinking and problem solving. He was at the university of California at the time of receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He was awarded this for discovering the green florescent protein and developing it.
ReplyDeleteAs the 2016 novel prize winner of the literature award Bob Dylan is the only musician to recive and award like this. Bob was given this award "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". Bob has not only been nominated 27 times for a Grammy but he won it 12 times. He has also won a golden globe award. Bob was inducted to the Grammy hall of fame also. There is no doubt in our minds that he deserved this award.
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