As high school science students, I am sure you are closely following the Nobel Prize Announcements. I am totally kidding of course, but I do think the Nobel Prize announcements are super interesting. This year the prize for medicine went to two scientists for their discovery of a cancer treatment using the immune system. Next, the three scientists that split the award for the prize in chemistry were working with enzymes and peptides. Perhaps what I find most interesting is that we will study all of these topics this year in biology.
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. You can pick any of the Nobel Prize winners as there are numerous categories. 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. Because of our shortened week this week, you will actually have until October 19th to submit your blog post.
https://www.nobelprize.org/
- The person I chose to read and explore more information on is, Shinya Yamanaka. His journey is so inspiring, that the time it took me to read his article, seemed to pass by in a blink. At first, Yamanaka was a surgeon working at the Osaka National Hospital in Japan. His father, Shozaburo, was the one to encourage his to major in medicine, as he was an engineer. But when Yamanaka's father, Shozaburo, passed away unexpectedly and no known case from his death surfaced, he decided to alter his career path and study science. Turns it his father suffered from Hepatitis C, and died from liver failure. His father's death was very tragic for him, but that is one of the substantial reasons as to why he became so passionate as to help people by curing their diseases. Yamanaka has contributed much to society by studying different cells, how they interact with diseases, and working vigorously to find cures for various diseases such as; Parkinson's disease, heart failure, spinal cord injury, and corneal's disease. Because of this, Yamanaka was rightly awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2012 and remains humble to this day. Balancing his precise and high stress job, making time for his family and children, all while running marathons along the way.
ReplyDeleteAt age 17, Malala Yousafzai was the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. She was awarded half the prize along with Kailash Satyarthi in 2014. She won this prize because of her fight for womens's education. She said that we should all have access to a good school that is also affordable. Malala was born in northwestern Pakistan, and has fought for women's rights her whole life. In 2007, the Taliban took over their community and banned girls from attending school. They also destroyed more than 400 schools. This outraged Malala, so she took a stand. Through Malala's protests and demonstrations, she has become the spokesperson for girls education rights. Today she has created the Malala Fund that invests in education projects and solutions all while she is still on the fight for women's rights.
ReplyDeleteWOW! She is so amazing and so brave of her to protest for what is right
DeleteI read about a Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to an organization in 2017. The organization is called ICAN which means "International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons." This organizations main goal is to draw attention to the use of nuclear weapons and how they are one of many ways humans are destroying the world we live in. They won the Nobel Peace prize because of efforts to create, and place into effect, a treaty to stop the use of these weapons that have and will in the future cause catastrophes to our planet and harm our way of life. Most people are mainly focused on global warming (Which is also a serious issue) but this also needs to be taken very seriously and I am glad there are organizations like this to help.
ReplyDeleteIn the year 2000 President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea won the nobel peace prize. Kim Dae-jung was born on December 3 1925 in Mokpo, South Korea, and died on August 18 2009. Kim Dae-jung was the recipient of this award because he worked hard for democracy and human rights in East Asia, and his peace with North Korea. He was also known as “The Sunshine Politician” because of his “sunshine policy” towards North Korea, being warm and friendly and looking to lay down the structure for reunification of the two countries. During the summer of the year 2000, President Kim Dae-jung organized a summit meeting with North Korea’s leader and prompted new relations between the countries through sports, transportation, and culture. Thusly, Kim Dae-jung’s actions of peace and unity lead him to be a perfect candidate and receiver of this nobel prize.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your paragraph. It was very well-written.
DeleteWhat better person to begin with than arguably the most famous scientist of all time: Albert Einstein. Born in 1879, Einstein grew up in Munich, Germany. Many truly poor students likely decided to make up the rumor that Einstein received terrible grades in school and flunked out, but that just isn't true. Einstein excelled at best and received mediocre grades at worst. The people surrounding him supported his intrigue in math and science, which led to Einstein pursuing his observations and thoughts about the nature of the universe. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1921 "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." The photoelectric effect is, briefly, when electrons are emitted from a substance after light shines on the material. Einstein contributed to the understanding of this effect, earning him this Nobel Prize.
ReplyDeleteEllen Johnson Sirleaf was born on October 29, 1938 in Monrovia, Liberia. In 1961, she came to the United States to study economics. After she got her masters degree in 1971, she became part of the government in Liberia. Ellen was the first woman to be elected head of state in her African country. She has spent more than a year in jail and had her life threatened by a former president while trying to serve justice. In 2011, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was given the Nobel Prize for her actions to further the rights of women. Her dedication helped many, giving them a voice.
ReplyDeleteCharles Louis Alphonse Laveran was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for “his work on the role played by the protozoa in causing diseases”. Born in Paris, France in 1845, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was an army surgeon in the Franco-German war after being taught at the Strasbourg faculty of medicine, then practiced and taught military medicine. When he was practicing in Algeria in 1880, he found the cause of malaria and found that it was a protozoan (a single-celled microbe) not a bacteria. Laveran inferred that the disease was transmitted via mosquito. He then continued research on tropical diseases and other protozoal diseases. Laveran established the Laboratory of Tropical Diseases and founded the Société de Pathologie Exotique then died from an “undefined illness” in 1922.
ReplyDeleteMarie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland. When she was older, she studied and worked in the field of radiology. She worked alongside her husband, and they shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 for being able to extract polonium and radium, which were two new elements that had not been discovered yet. Marie was widowed in 1906, but continued her work and went on to win a second Nobel Prize. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize with her daughter for being able to produce radium as a pure metal. Marie Sklodowska was the first person to ever win two Nobel Prizes.
ReplyDeleteI chose Toni Morrison, who was born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio. Morrison read a lot as a child and her father’s stories, taken from African American tradition, which later filtered into her writing. She has not only studies but taught English at many universities, including Howard University in Washington D.C. From 1964 Toni Morrison worked as a publishing house editor, her first book was published in 1970, she also held several positions at universities, like Princeton. Toni Morrison had two children. Her work revolves around African Americans; both their history and their situation in our own time. Morrison’s works depict difficult circumstances and the dark side of humanity but still, convey integrity and redemption. She displays empathy for her characters. Morrison’s unique narrative techniques have been developed in each work she writes. Toni Morrison won the Nobel Peace Prize because she “gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”.
ReplyDeleteMedicine. Almost instantly the human brain thinks of a pill or a nasty liquid that helps someone get better but actually medicine or the study of medicine is a wide field touching even the most unlikely places. As a result, many people have managed to achieve something so miraculous that very few have ever considered before, and that number gets even smaller when you factor in the women that have achieved something so rare. One woman who has been able to accomplish such as feat is Elizabeth H. Blackburn.
ReplyDeleteBlackburn was born on November 26, 1948 in Hobart,Tasmania, Australia. She was awarded The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2009 . The motivation behind this was for "The discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and enzyme telomerase". Both of her parents were doctors and Blackburn took an early interest in animals and nature. Eventually she went on to study biochemistry at the university of Melbourne. Blackburn married and had a son.
Blackburn's grand accomplishment was when she discovered that chromosomes, which are found inside a cell's nuclei, have a "cap”or telomere which protects an organism's genes. (Genes are stored within the DNA molecules, which are found in chromosomes). In 1980 Blackburn discovered that the telomeres have their own particular DNA. Furthermore,in 1982 alongside with Jack Szostak, she was able to prove that this DNA prevents chromosomes from being broken down. Finally in 1984 Blackburn and Carol Greider uncovered the enzyme telomerase which produces the telomeres DNA.
Nevertheless science continues to throw new discoveries at us and it is just a matter of time until someone, big or small realizes its potential.
The person I chose that has received a noble prize is MLK. He is one of the more known people to receive this prize because of his very large impact on the social justice and civil rights movement. MLK was born on January 15 1929 and died on April 4 1968, he was assassinated. MLK was a big part of racial equality because he shared his dream and opinions, this eventually got him killed, but without him there is no telling where we would be right now. He received the prize because of the way he spread his ideas peacefully, even though white racists were violent towards African Americans MLK said to be peaceful and respectful. MLK is a hero that well deserved this prize for his dedication to end racism and inequality.
ReplyDeleteFor this assignment, I chose to read about Joseph Rotblat. Joseph Rotblat (as well as the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for helping to have nuclear weapons play less of a role in the world and in conflicts. He also helped to get rid of some of the weaponry as well. I decided to read about Joseph Rotblat because I believe what he did and stood for can still relate to topics in the current day. With the Doomsday Clock being set 2 minutes to midnight back in January (which is bad) partially due to nuclear weaponry, to countries like North Korea denuclearizing and helping achieve peace.
ReplyDeleteI choose to research on the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan, whose birth name is Robert Zimmerman, was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He lived with his two grandparents who were Jewish immigrants from present-day Ukraine and Lithuania. Growing up he always had a passion for music and performed with many band. After studying at the University of Minnesota, Bob moved to New York City in 1961. Since then he has mainly devoted his time to writing and performing his own lyrics and music as a solo artist. Bob Dylan was one of the first artists to write about problems occuring in the world today. His lyrics incorporated social struggles, political protest, love and religion by writing honest songs with surreal imagery and rhymes. Since his time, musicians have continued to be inspired by his influential style of writing and continue to write about world struggles today. Bob Dylan was awarded with The Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." His music respectfully protested and spoke out for peoples rights.
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DeleteThe 44th president (From 2009 to 2017), Barack Obama, is who I chose my blog for. Barack Obama was born August 4th, 1961 in Hawaii. He won his Nobel Peace prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”, and his vision in a nuclear weapon-free world. He was awarded with this prize about 8 months into his presidential run. Obama would speak globally divided by ethnicity, religion, and political views. "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges". - Barack Obama.
ReplyDeleteI did not know that Obama won this, great work!
DeleteShirin Ebadi was the first female judge in Iran. She was later dismissed during the Iranian revolution. She then opened up her own practice for defending people that were being persecuted by the government. Later on in her life she was imprisoned for speaking poorly about the hierocracy of her country. She wrote books and stood up for women and children in human rights. She also tried to make amendments towards laws, and divorce laws. But the reason she was given the Nobel peace prize in 2003 was because she tried to reduce the tension between the Islamic and western worlds after the attack of 9/11. Her help continues today for her leadership towards human rights, and the laws that have bloomed from her ways.
ReplyDeleteBorn on April 1st, 1919 in Milford Massachusetts was Joseph E. Murray. During his life, he discovered the need for organ and cell transplants. These were very important for the world and revolutionized medicine because, when a person’s organ grew weak and could not support their body any longer or their cells lowered to a frightening, level, they needed a transplant. The transplant would consist of finding and exact match of the person’s blood type and they would become a donor. This helped save many people. On average, depending how far along a person is gone, 8 lives can be saved by 1 donor. About 30,000 people recieve/need a donor organ per year. Almost 20 people die everyday waiting for a transplant. This was an amazing thing, considering that right now 114,000+ people are waiting for a transplant and every 10 minutes a new person gets added to the list. Murray did perform many procedures during his lifetime and career, saving many lives, but sadly he did on November 26th 2012.
ReplyDeleteFor my Nobel Prize winner, I chose Werner Heisenberg. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932. Werner Heisenberg was born on December 5th, 1901 in Würzburg, Germany. He studies physics at the University of Munich. He worked with Niels Bohr and Rockefeller Grant from 1924-1925. When WWII started, Werner and many other German physicists were moved to England and after WWII Werner went back to Germany to work at the Institute for Physics at Göttingen. During his lifetime, he travelled all across the world to give lectures relating to physics.\. He is mainly associated with his theories on quantum mechanics. In 1925, he found a method to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. His theories on quantum mechanics resulted on the discovery of allotropic forms of hydrogen, which earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics.
ReplyDeleteSir Alexander Fleming won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of penicillin. Penicillin has a very curative effect with many infectious diseases. Sir Alexander Fleming was born 6 August 1881, Lochfield, Scotland and studied medicine almost all of his life. He started in his early life by leaving out bowls with bacterial cultures. One day, a mold began to grow in one of the bowls and he concluded that the mold was effective against bacteria. This discovery of penicillin saved many lives and still helps today, and for that reason, he won the Nobel Prize of Medicine.
ReplyDeleteThe person I chose is Wangari Maathai. I was instantly drawn to her for many reasons. In 1977 she started a grass-roots movement to help reduce deforestation and also succeeded in persuading women to plant trees and think ecologically. This movement blew up and over 30 million trees were planted because of her. She also used this movement as a way to support women’s rights and international solidarity. Because of her aspiring goals and amazing achievements, she became the first African American women to ever receive a Nobel Peace Prize. The motivation for this prize was her contributions to sustainable development, democracy, and peace. She sadly passed away on September 25, 2011. Still to this day, her story is motivating to people of all kind, whether it is to encourage them to plant more trees or fight for women’s rights and peace.
ReplyDeleteI chose to learn about Dan Shechtman, who got the chemistry prize in 2011. He was born in Tel Aviv in 1941. He earned a PhD in materials science from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in 1972. He made his discovery at John Hopkins University in the early 1980s. He is married and has 4 children. In crystals, atoms are organized in an ordered pattern. For a long time, physicists thought crystal had atoms in repeating patterns. When Shechtman did x rays, he found out some crystals have a mathematically regular pattern, but they don't repeat themselves. He called them quasicrystals.
ReplyDeleteGertrude B. Elion was born in New York on January 23, 1918. As a teenager, she watched her grandfather die of cancer. Because of this Elion decided to devote her life to fighting the disease. She studied chemistry in college but because she was a girl, she found it hard to hard to find jobs in chemistry. As a result of WWII there was a lack of chemists, so Elion was able to find a job. She then moved to Burroughs Wellcome's research laboratory. Here she conducted research that revolutionized the development of pharmaceuticals. During this period pharmaceuticals were mainly produced by natural substances. In the 1950s, Elion, with the help of George Hitchings, developed a systematic method for producing drugs based on knowledge of biochemistry and diseases. One of the first drugs they created was for leukemia, which helped many children with the disease. Elion, Hitchings, and Sir. James W. Black were granted the Nobel Prize in 1988, "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment."
ReplyDeleteThis is a rely interesting topic. I never thought about how these treatments were made before.
DeleteI love your use of vocabulary! Very well said!
DeleteFor this blog, I chose a commonly known and amazingly inspirational woman, by the name of Malala Yousafzai. At seventeen, she is the youngest Nobel prize winner. Since the age of twelve, Malala has been a huge part in women’s rights. After surviving an attempted assassination by the Taliban (because of her efforts), she bounced back and quickly fought for what she believed in, despite her negative experience. Today, after winning her award in 2014, she has made speeches all over and even wrote a book of her experience. Malala continues to be remembered, not only the youngest Nobel Prize winners, but one of the most inspiring too.
ReplyDeleteI love your paragraph! I loved how you used great word choice, and provided the reader with many astonishing facts! It is very well written!
DeleteI chose to write about Mother Teresa. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 at the age of 69 years old. From an early age, she was dedicated to god and taught in Calcutta in India. After a while of that, she got a call from god, which said that she needed to help the poor. And that is exactly what she did. She helped to build houses for orphans, nursing homes and hospices for the terminally ill. She won the award for her selfless acts and care3 for the world and God.
ReplyDeleteAngus Deaton was awarded the Nobel Prize "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare." Angus Deaton attended University of Cambridge and was a professor at University of Bristol and Princeton. Professing at these universities led him into understanding how consumption relates to economic development.He researched this topic and revealed that consumption depends on prices, savings, and income. His findings helped him analyze human welfare. His studies on consumption and how it relates to the economy overall led him to winning his Nobel Prize.
ReplyDeleteFor this weeks blog post I chose Andrew Z. Fire who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2006. During the time of his nomination he was working at the Stanford University of Medicine. Andrew won this award for his discovery of RNA interference -gene silencing by double-stranded RNA. His discovery was important because RNA carries genetic information from DNA to protein formation. This then causes certain genetic information to not convert during protein formation. Overall, Andrew Z. Fire had an important contribution to Physiology and Medicine.
ReplyDeleteMother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910. She portrayed a very important role in society as the leader of Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta. Teresa, a very religious girl, followed God and became a nun along with becoming a teacher in India. She needed to help the poor while living among them, which was her call from God. To pursue this, Teresa founded Missionaries of Charity, a new sisterhood. Mother Teresa had helpers and together they did many good and kind things. Some of these things were building homes for orphans and hospitality for ill people in Calcutta. Unfortunately, she passed away on September 5, 1997 in Calcutta, India where she was sent many years prior to pursue her call from God. Though Mother Teresa has passed, she is still a well known lady who is still highly respected today. Just in 2016, she was declared a saint by Pope Francis. It is clear that Mother Teresa earned this award for all o the good things she did for this world and her biggest achievement which was her sisterhood; Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta.
ReplyDeleteI chose Linda Buck for my blog. Linda B. Buck was born January 29, 1947 in Seattle, Washington. Following her parents lead, she was interested in science at a young age. While taking many science related classes in school, like biology, and immunology, she then earned her Bachelors degree in microbiology in 1975. Then, five years later, she received a PhD in immunology. She then moved to Columbia University, New York, where she teamed up with a man named Richard Axel. She earned a Nobel Prize for discovering how our smell works.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Prize winner I'm going to be writing about in this weeks blog post is Jean Henry Dunant. He was the first ever Nobel Prize winner ever in 1901. Henry was born May 8th 1928 and passed on October 30th 1910. He was a businessman, a social activist and the founder of the Red Cross. Also, the Geneva Convention of 1864 was based on is ideas.
ReplyDeleteI choose Ronald Hoffman as my Nobel Peace Prize winner. He won in chemistry in 1981 along with a man named Kenichi Fukui. Ronald Hoffman was born in Zloczow Poland,in 1917 just two yaers before the start of WWII. After surviving the war he moved his life to America and devoted himself to to studying chemistry in Harvard and Columbia Universities. He classifies his work as "applied theoretical chemistry" which focuses on his strong pedagogical perspective. The one main thing that draws me to pick Ronald Hoffman is because of his incredible perseverance. Having to deal with WWII at such a young age but being able to bounce back and have such a strong desire to accomplish something is just amazing to me.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Blackburn was born November 26, 1948, in Hobart on the island of Tasmania, Australia. She took an early interest in animals and nature and went on to study biochemistry at the university in Melbourne. She later received her Ph.D. from Cambridge University, England, where she also met her future husband. The couple eventually moved to Yale University in New Haven, USA, and later to the University of California in San Francisco. Blackburn is best known for her 2009 Nobel Prize-winning discovery of telomeres, caps on the ends of chromosomes that protect genetic information from damage and are thought to play an important role in aging and cancer.
ReplyDeleteI chose the American Red Cross because they have won the Nobel Peace Prize 3 times. They have won in the years 1917, 1944 and 1963. No person or organization has ever won the Peace Prize this many times, that's what makes the Red Cross so special. The Red Cross was awarded their first Peace Prize because of what they did in the first WW. With helping wounded soldiers and ill soldiers get home and better. They were awarded the second Peace Prize because of their work in the second WW. And then in 1963, that year marked the 100 anniversary of the Red Cross. So they were awarded the Peace Prize for all their hard work.
ReplyDeleteMarie Curie, nee Sklodowska, born on November 7, 1867, was the first person to ever win two noble prices. She examined minerals and and many substances for radioactivity and in 1903 was awarded a prize for all her hard work and discovering two previously unknown elements, polonium and radium. In 1911 she was awarded another prize for being able to classify radium as a pure metal and document the properties and compounds of radioactive elements. This benefited in the field of medicine as well, where these radioactive compounds were used to treat tumors. Marie died on July 4, 1934 leaving the earth with many accomplishments.
ReplyDeleteI chose James Chadwick for my Nobel Prize winner. He was awarded the Nobel Physics prize in 1835 for the discovery of the neutron. Chadwick was born October 20th in 1891 in Manchester. He attend Manchester High School and went on to Manchester University. He graduated from Honours School of Physics, before studying under professor Rutherford at a physics laboratory in Manchester where he dealt with radioactivity. He later moved to Berlin to work there until the end of WW1 when he moved back to England to continue work under Rutherford. In 1932 Chadwick proved that the neutron existed and would earn his Nobel Prize for it. He later moved to the U.S. from 1943 to 1946 to lead the British attachment of the Manhattan project, and helped develop the nuclear bomb. He continued to earn numerous prizes in his life including being knighted before dying on July 24, 1974.
ReplyDeleteThe person that I choose was Jean-Pierre Sauvage. I choose him because looked over a sciency category of chemistry and thought that it would go best with our class. Jean was one of 3 people who won the prize for "the design and synthesis of molecular machines. Jean was born October 21, 1944 in Paris France, and then he received his doctoral degree at the Université Louis-Pasteur in Strasbourg in 1971. After that, He has worked at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS, and was a professor at the Université de Strasbourg. Jean has done many things, but is best known for his discoveries of connecting ring shaped molecules by machine.
ReplyDeleteI chose William C. Campbell. William won the the medical Nobel Peace prize in 2015. He was born in Ireland in 1930, and lives in New Jersey. He works at the University, Madison, New Jersey. What he won the prize for was finding a purified substance that would be effect against many parasites. For example, the substance stops river blindness which is cause by a tiny worm and make you become blind. I think what he did was really important because parasites are extremely hard to fight against, and what he did saved lives of people.
ReplyDeleteI chose Barbara McClintock for my blog. She was born June 16th, 1902 in Connecticut and New York. Her family thought it was more important to marry than to have a career. But, with her father's support she began studying at Cornell's College of Agriculture. She never did marry, she put all her focus towards her work and research, she was no longer considered an example of a woman. McClintock studied corn's hereditary characteristics, for example the different colors of its kernels. During the 1940' and 1950' she proved that genetic elements can sometimes change position on a chromosome.
ReplyDeleteI chose George P. Smith. I chose him because he made a phage display of peptides and antibodies which i think is very interesting. He has made efforts in harnessing evolution to produce new enzymes and antibodies. He was born on March 10th, 1941 and his affiliation at the time of the award was University of Missouri, Columbia, USA where he was a tenured professor. He made a very big impact and and that is why he was awarded with the Noble Peace Prize.
ReplyDeleteThe person I chose to write about is Sir Alexander Fleming who was awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize in 1945 for; "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases." Alexander was born on August 6, 1881, in Scotland and died on March 11, 1955. During this time he saved countless lives during World War 2 due to his discovery and stabilization of a group of antibiotics, called penicillin. This drug saved people by killing off infectious bacteria, allowing their wounds to heal without the large threat of infection. Before all of this, Alexander was a promising student studying under prominent vaccine-therapists, (namely Sir Almroth Wright) he excelled at researching during his years at Medical school, all the while gaining many prestigious awards regarding his work. Early in his career and in life, Alexander was interested in the natural bacteria action of blood and in antiseptics, centered his work around this concept. Even while he served in the British medical corps, he still persisted in researching this concept. In 1921 he noticed a particle found in animal secretions that he named lysozyme. In 1928, while working on a way to suppress the influenza virus, he accidentally discovered that he could grow a bacteria-free circle with a certain type of mold had contaminated his bacteria cultures. He then developed this peculiar mold into the first effective antibiotic, which was then used in World War 2. After the war, he rounded off his accomplished life with many more prestigious awards for his actions. Additionally, Alexander had published many papers regarding his research in fields other than biology, which includes chemotherapy, bacteriology, and immunology. Alexander led a promising and successful life while studying science to benefit others
ReplyDeleteI chose to read about Mother Teresa who won a Nobel Peace prize in 1979. Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910 in Uskup (now called Skopje) and died on September 5, 1997. She was the leader of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India. When she was just 12 years old God called on her and demanded her to devote her life to him, so Agnes Gonxhiu Bojaxhiu joined a nunnery, getting an education. Next she was sent to Calcutta, India to be a teacher which is where she got her new name, Teresa. While teaching in India God called on her again telling her to help the poor. She founded a new sisterhood called the Missionaries of Charity, they build homes for orphans, nursing homes and did aid work in other countries. Mother Teresa, a modest nun became known across the world, and she got a lot of money. She also got some criticism from people saying that she denied sick and dying people of pain relief medicine, but Mother Teresa herself accepted hospital treatment when she was sick and dying. She was also known as a spokes person for the Vatican. In 2003 the Pope took the first steps to deem Mother Teresa a Saint when she died and in 2016 the Pope officially declared Mother Teresa a Saint.She earned the Nobel Peace prize for forming the Missionaries of Charity.
ReplyDeleteFor this assignment, I chose to read about Sir Alexander Fleming. Sir Alexander Fleming was born August 6th, 1881 in Lochfield, Scotland. He studied medicine for most of his life. He then became a captain in WWI for the medical corps. When back from war he began researching microorganisms. He left out different bowls of fungus and when he came back to his lab the next day he found a mold growing in a petri dish, this was the discovery of penicillin. This discovery got him the nobel prize for medicine in 1995. This discovery also benefited society in many ways for example it was used for saving lives such as healing infectious wounds. Sir Alexander Fleming won this award because his discovery saved many lives and still is too this day.
ReplyDeleteI picked Denis Mukwege and he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for his efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war or conflict. He was born March 1, 1955, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He started his work in 1999 when he built the Panzi Hospital Bukavu after he fled Congo after war broke out in 1996. He worked at a hospital before and helped with lowering maternal death rates during childbirth. His first patient was a rape victim, but he was surprised to find many more after her to be rape victims. At least 45,000 women have received treatment at Panzi Hospital for being raped over the last fifteen years. Dr. Mukwege explained rape and the victim’s loss of identity and he didn’t want any other women to experience this. He has since then been protecting and defending women in the efforts to stop sexual violence as a weapon or war or conflict.
ReplyDeleteI chose Sir Alexander Fleming who won a noble medicine prize. Alexander was born on August 1881 in Lochfield, Scotland. He was intersected in micro-organism and there survival, especially bacteria. He study and went to st. Mary's in London. He also became caption in to army medical corps for 14 and was proud to serve his country. when leaving a bacteria tray out one day he noticed that a layer of mold formed around the bacteria had a substance that was killing the bacteria. He then named and penicillin. From there It is now it is the became the basis for medications and probiotics to treat bacterial infections.He made one of the most beneficial discoveries to help medications and advance the medical world.He won the Noble prize in 1945 which was greatly earned
ReplyDeleteI chose to research about James Chadwick. He was born on October 20, 1891. He studied at Liverpool University in the United Kingdom. In 1932, James proved that beryllium consisted on neutral particles weighting about the same as protons. He was given the Nobel prize after his discovery of the neutron. He later died on July 24, 1974 in Cambridge, UK.
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