Between 1901 and 2013, there have been over 500 Nobel Prizes and Prize in Economic Sciences awarded. In this DNA unit, we will discuss other very important Nobel Prize winners, James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine..."for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
The blog assignment for this week is for you to find another winner of a Nobel Prize. You can pick any of the categories of the Nobel Prize that interest you and describe one winner. In a scholarly writing, I would like you to describe the winner or winners in one or two paragraphs. Additionally, you should include the year that they won, what prize they won, and why they won. This blog entry should be at least 5 sentences long and be written in a scholarly manner (include capital letters and periods). This first blog entry is worth 10 points.
The following link will help you...
Be sure to put the research into your own words. Also, pick a winner that has not been described by someone else. I will email you if your blog entry is not acceptable.
While I was searching for noble prizes winners, I came across a group of men involved in the Chemistry oriented ordeal of prizes. In 2013, Martin Karplus, Michael Livitt, and Arieh Warshel won a noble prize for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems. They all laid the foundation for the programs that are used to predict and understand chemical processes. For example their programs can predict photosynthesis patterns, catalyst purification and any other chemical processes you can think of! Likewise, one of the main reasons they all won was because their discoveries lined up side by side with Newtons foundings and work hand in hand together, and the fact scientists can now make replicas of large molecules. It's so fascinating that so many people have discovered things us human couldn't think was impossible! Maybe someone in Mrs.Mazzuca's class will do the same!
ReplyDeleteMaybe you will do the same!
DeleteSir Alexander Fleming won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945. He won this prize due to his discovery of penicillin and the curative effect it had on many diseases.
ReplyDeleteThis man was born on August 6th 1881 in Lochfield, Scotland and he died on March 11th 1955 in London. Around the time he won the award he was affiliated with London University. Along with being affiliated with London University, he was involved in a few different fields of physiology or medicine. Those fields include anti-bacterial agents, bacteriology, and biochemistry. His discovery of Penicillin has changed and also shaped our medicinal knowledge today. Without Penicillin, we would not be able to cure many diseases that have occurred. We owe a lot to Sir Arthur Fleming; without him we wouldn't have been able to go farther and discover more cures in the field of medicine.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1945/fleming_postcard.jpg
What an amazing discovery too! Where would we be without the discovery of penicillin?
DeleteI have chosen Frederick G. Banting. He won the prize in 1923 for his discovery of insulin. His Prize was in the Physiology or Medicine field. He was born in 1891 in Alliston, Canada and died 1941 in Newfoundland Canada. Only 50 years of age. His discovery of insulin has helped many people with cancer survive and live a more normal life. It has also saved many lives. It will also affect many many more people in the future.
ReplyDeleteWill,
DeleteProvide more details. Look below. Someone else also did Banting and I did not have a chance to tell them that it was already taken.
This Monday, we all got to stay at home and did not have to go to school. This is because of MLK or also known as Martin Luther King jr. He is a household name because he was the youngest person ever to receive a Nobel Peace prize.Born on January 15, 1929, he was only 35. He received this award for his work to end racial discrimination, and his "I Have A Dream" speech in D.C. I believe he is the most iconic and most famous out of all of the other 500 Nobel winners. I mean he even has his own Nationwide holiday. He led the Civil Rights Movement until his assassination in 1968.
ReplyDeleteCaroline,
DeleteThis is well-written, but I wish you had given us some more specific details.
Albert Schweitzer was born on 14 January 1875 in Kaysersberg Germany. He studied theology and became a priest but wasn't satisfied. He hated suffering and pain so he then studied medicine. Together with his wife, he ran a hospital. His lifelong expression was "reverence for life" and he lived his life accordingly. He treated all life with respect. His work at a mission hospital in France inspired others to do the same.In 1957, Schweitzer spoke on the radio to people all over the world.The Nobel Peace Prize for 1952 was given to him on December 10, 1953 because of his efforts. With his $33,000 prize money, he started the leprosarium at Lambarene France. Over the course of his life he was a missionary, ran a hospital, was a musican, and many other things. There is no question that he earned his reward.
ReplyDeleteNathan,
DeleteAwesome job. What an amazing philanthropist!
In 1903, Marie Curie became the first women to win the Nobel prize in physics. She won this because of her and her husband's work in radioactivity. This includes her 1902 announcement that her and her husband had produced a decigram of radium. Marie then made history again becoming the first scientist to win two Nobel prizes when she won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1911. She won this for her discovery of Radium and Polonium.
ReplyDeleteAmanda,
DeleteWhat else do you know about Marie Curie? Where is she from? Where did she live? What did her husband do?
Ernest Rutherford was born in BridgeWater, New Zealand on August 30, 1871. He attended BridgeWater University in 1895, and stayed there until 1898. He later became one the greatest nuclear physicists of all time, he became commonly referred to as "The Father of Nuclear Physics". He has also been regarded as one the greatest experimentalist of all time as well.
ReplyDeleteRyan,
DeleteWhat else? Explain his big experiment. Why is he so important?
Aung San Suu Kyi.
ReplyDeleteThis Burmese woman opposed the strong military oppression when she came home in 1988, and she even helped found the National League for Democracy (NLD). Following in Mahatma Gandhi's footsteps she used non-violence and demanded that the militant leaders handed over to a civilian government. The NLD finally won in 1990, but still the generals were arresting members of the resistance and kept Suu Kyi under house arrest.
Giving this woman the 1991 Noble Peace Prize showed the world what she was doing and helped increase national support for her cause.
David,
DeleteDo you remember this at all? I was in high school and I remember seeing her on the news.
David,
DeleteGhandi has always been one of my favorite historical figures, it's interesting to see people so close to our current year using his tactics to make a difference in the world around them. Also I think it's amazing that in giving San Suu Kyi the Nobel peace prize it was able to bring attention to the given matter, benefiting even further to the peace generating because of this strong woman.
I chose Winston Churchill. Winston was born November 30, 1874 and died on January 24, 1965. He grew up in Dublin, Ireland and was a very independent and rebellious student. He was sent to a boarding school near London and that put him on a military track and ended up joining the British army. He gradually made his way up the ladder and became the British Prime Minister in !938. He pretty much ruled Great Britan durring WWII and was one of the big parts in defeating Hitler. He then sadly died of alzhimers in 1965.
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DeleteWhat did Churchill do to win the award? What was his big contribution?
Rudyard Kipling won the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature for his remarkable prose, awarded because of his talent for observation and narration skills in his writing. Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, in 1865, to a British family. At the time India was a colony of Britain so it was actually very common for British families to live there. He loved it there but was forced to go to school in England. Kipling became known as a short-story and poem writer, and is best-known as the author of The Jungle Book and Rikki-tikki-tavi. He went all over the world, and eventually moved to Vermont for a while because his wife was American. At one point he visited Chicago and gave it a scathing review, saying that "it is inhabited by savages." Kipling won other awards than the Nobel prize, including the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in 1936.
ReplyDeleteShinya Yamanaka won the Nobel prize in 2012 for physiology or medicine due to his studies in the field of genetics. Yamanaka was born in 1962 in Osaka, Japan. His studies in stem cells may lead to life-saving medical treatments and his discoveries while working at Kyoto University in Japan and at Gladstone Institutes have proven extremely important. During his studies, Yamanaka discovered that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become something different. In 1962, John Gurdon proved that mature cells still contain the genetic information to become all types of cells and later Yamanaka furthered Gurdon's research. Studying mice, Yamanaka discovered a number of genes that in mice, could be reprogrammed to code for stem cells. When activated, these genes transformed ordinary skin cells into stem cells; these could then grow into all different types of cells. For his research, Yamanaka was awarded with the Nobel prize in 2012.
ReplyDeleteAlice Munro, born on July 10th 1931, won the Nobel prize of literature in 2013 she was awarded a little over one million dollars. She has been credited for her mastering of short story and prose. She has many short stories she has written from her experiences in life, one that caught a lot of attention and started her path to being a successful author was Dance of the Happy Shades. after this she started bringing her stories into magazines.
ReplyDeleteAlice was awarded this prize after writing 14 collections of stories in over 4 languages. I was interested in this Author because of her work in prose or short stories, which is what I do for speech team. Also most people who win this category in Nobel prizes are usually credited for their advanced Knowledge of politics or deep psychological thinking that almost no one can understand without being a genius. She is credited for relating to human nature and finding a way to express herself and her thoughts of being another human being.
Toni Morrison won The Novel Prize in Literature 1993. She is 62 years old and was born in Lorain Ohio. She wrote many novels and essays. Overall she has published six books, all of great interest. Her most famous novel "Songs of Solomon" describes the view of a black world and character who tries to find himself. Toni Morrison is viewed as the "literary artist of first rank". By her novels, she has helped expose the African American history.
ReplyDeleteIsabelle,
DeleteGreat start. See if you can find some more information about Toni Morrison.
Venkatraman Ramakrishna,a biochemist in structure, won the noble prize in chemistry in 2009. Born in India of the year 1952, both his parents taught biochemistry setting Ramakrishna up for his scientific future. With his hard work in biochemistry he worked himself up to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. The location of Venkatraman breakthrough discovery. Through his strenuous studies he was able to then develop the structure and function of the ribosome. Allowing scientists to make more discoveries on the works of a cell; Venkatraman Ramakrishna, noble prize worthy.
ReplyDeleteNelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. Mandela spent many, many years in prison, he was realsed on February 11, 1990. A while after getting out of prison Nelson became the first black president of South Africa. Mandela became to develop color blindness. Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013.
ReplyDeleteFrederik Willem de Klerk was born on March 18th 1936. He was the son of a senator and the brother of one of the founders of the Democratic Party. Frederik was the person who release Mandela from jail.
In 1993, Nelson Mandela and Frederik won the Nobal Peace Prize for their work for the peaceful termination and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.
Mackenzie,
DeleteYou should explain the color blindness in your response. Additionally, explain how Nelson Mandela spent time in jail.
In 1922 Albert Einstein received the Nobel Peace prize for completing the theory of relativity. He also predicted that the universe expands and contracts which was later proved true. On top of that he discovered that the speed of light remains constant. After that he predicted that particles of matter can be converted into huge amounts of energy which would later be nuclear power. All of these discoveries led up to him making creating and finishing the theory of relativity and winning the Nobel peace prize.
ReplyDeleteMolly,
DeleteGreat start. Give some background information about Albert Einstein.
X-rays are like magic! They allow doctors to see inside of a human body to find broken bones and other complications, to obtain the best treatment possible. However, they aren't always the greatest. If an organism is exposed to the radiation for too long or too many times, mutations will occur. What seems like such a helpful invention can actually cause more harm if it isn't regulated properly. This is similar to how when cigarettes first came out, nobody knew it could be bad. So they kept smoking which led to cancer. The knowledge provided allows us to optimize results. This research was founded by Hermann Joseph Muller, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1946. His exact motivation for winning was "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation". His work in genetics has lived long past his life that began on December 21st, 1890 in New York, NY, USA and ended on April 5th, 1967. At the time of his winning, he was affiliated with Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. The legacy of this devoted scientist will ring through as part of the foundation of medical history.
ReplyDeleteEnrico Fermi, an Italian born physicist, won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics. He got interested in physics at a very young age and move to the U.S to follow his passion. He's best known for his work on the first nuclear reactor, contributions to particle and quantum physics, and for being one of the fathers of the atomic bomb.
ReplyDeleteThe prize however, was for the discovery of new radioactive isotopes. He found them with the new process of irradiating large atoms with neutrons. He also found that if the neutrons were slowed down via paraffin shielding, the reaction rates sped up.
Noah,
DeleteWhat is Enrico Fermi's connection with Illinois? Where in Italy is he from?
Frederick Grant Banting won a Noble Prize in 1923 in the field of medicine. He discovered insulin. Insulin is what helps us keep our blood sugar maintained. Since he discovered insulin, it helped with finding about diabetes and helped us know more about our body. By discovering insulin, people could tell if they had diabetes or other diseases in the endocrine system. Discovering insulin helped us find more about the endocrine system and about diseases that go on in that system. Finding insulin opened a lot more doors in the medicine and biology field. By finding insulin it led us to discover other things related to insulin.
ReplyDeleteJordan,
DeleteGreat job with Frederick Banting's scientific contributions. Be sure to include some information about his life.
Jane Addams was the second woman to receive a Nobel peace prize. She founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919 and worked to help the poor and to stop the use of children as industrial laborers. During World War I, she held a women's conference for peace in the Netherlands, and tried in desperately to get President Woodrow Wilson of the USA to mediate peace between the warring countries. When the USA entered the war instead, Jane Addams spoke out loudly against this.She was a remarkable woman and she worked for many years to get the great powers to disarm and conclude peace agreements. She was awarded for her great efforts at the end of her life with the Nobel peace prize and she will always be remembered as an astounding figure in the peace movement.
ReplyDeletePaige,
DeleteGreat work. There is a Jane Addams Hull House Museum in Chicago. Have you been there?
Thanks! And no I haven't been there but it sounds like a great museum!
DeleteDoing this blog made me realize that a lot more Nobel Prizes are given out than I thought. Rodger Knorberg won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. I chose him because I have always thought chemistry was an interesting subject. He won this Prize in 2006. All of his studies were very interesting, but his work of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription is the reason for his Nobel Prize winning.
ReplyDeleteAmanda,
DeleteThis is a nice start, but I need a lot more detail. This is a ten point blog assignment. Where did Rodger Knorberg grow up? Where did he go to school?
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1980/sanger-bio.html
ReplyDeletethis man created many things that help us everyday he created a easier way to amino acid sequence and he finished the puzzle to what amino acids really are. with out this we would not understand exactly how and why our body's do what they do. also this helped move science is a forward way to help uncover other stuff about our bodies.
Peter,
DeleteScholarly writing please. (Capital letters and thought provoking writing). You can resubmit this if you would like.
The person I am writing about Peter Higgs. He was born in May 1929 in the UK and has done a ton with physics. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in predicting the existence of the Higgs Boson or "God Particle". He was working in CERN with Francois Englert when they started to think. Why are we here? After many hours of research and study, they were on to something. The Higgs Boson could be the reason that all matter even exists. So next time you are alive, think of Peter Higgs.
ReplyDeleteAlex,
DeleteWhile I love your ending, I need more details with the rest of your entry.
The first woman to win a Noble prize in Literature was Selma Lagerof in 1909. A native of Switzerland, she originally studied to become a teacher, but later in her career she was persuaded by the royal family and the Swedish Academy to abandon that pursuit in favor of writing. Her most famous and successful work was Gösta Berlings Saga, which was published in 1891 but became popular after being translated into Danish. The story is an adventure tale where the main character backstabs the very person who saved her from death, but in the end is redeemed. Although she published other prose, none of them lived up to Gösta Berlings in terms of accolades or awards. Almost twenty years after her first publication, she won the Nobel Prize "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings"(NobelPrize.org).
ReplyDeleteKelly,
DeleteMaybe after a career of being a teacher I will win a Nobel prize for literature when I retire. Great job.
Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He was born in 1924 on October 1.He was elected president of the United States on November 2, 1976. Their were many foreign policy accomplishments during his presidency including the Panama Canal treaties. He was the 39th president from 1977 to 1981.He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of service to find peaceful solutions to the world's issues and problems.
ReplyDeleteJohn,
DeleteWhy did Jimmy Carter win the award? Where did he grow up? What else do you know about him?
The noble peace price was won by Carl Von Ossietsky in 1936. He was an anti- nazi. He published Nazi military secrets. He was a huge politic, that tried to help expose the german's plans for what they really were. He was sentenced to 18 months is Spandau Prison, for betrayal of military secrets. He was in and out of jails and camps throughout his life until he died in 1938.
ReplyDeleteKatie,
DeleteWho is Carl Von Ossietsky? Give more details. Why was he in and out of jail? Who put him in jail?
Randy W. Schekman was born on December 30, 1948 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is credited, along with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof, for discovering machinery regulating vesicle traffic, which is a major transport system in cells. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine just last fall in 2013. Schekman, along with his partners, discovered how the cell organizes its transport system. Each cell produces and exports molecules, and these men discovered how the shipments are delivered to the right place at the right time. Randy Schekman discovered a set of genes that were required for vesicle traffic, which was his major contribution to the transport system's discovery. Through their discoveries, Rothman, Schekman and Südhof have noticed that the cell transport system is precise, and a disruption of it could cause neurological diseases, diabetes, and immunological disorders.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Peace prize for 1995 went to Joseph Rotblat. This man attended many conferences in the field of science and World Affairs putting efforts towards getting rid of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are extremely destructive and have the ability to start a nuclear fallout. By participating in politics and devoting much of his life to banning the weaponry, he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. He set an example in which everybody should follow because if we did, nuclear weapons would not seem like such a threat that it is today. This man will go down in history as an example that took one more step into world peace.
ReplyDeleteWhere did Joseph Rotblat grow up? Why did he dedicate his life to eliminating nuclear weapons? Great start, but you need more.
DeleteGünter Blobel won in the year 1999. He won a Nobel Prize in Physiology and medicine for his discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell. He won because he answered the question, how are newly made proteins transported across the membrane surrounding the organelles, and how are they directed to their correct location? He also showed that similar "address tags", or "zip codes", direct proteins to other intracellular organelles. These discoveries led him to a Nobel Prize!
ReplyDeleteVictoria,
DeleteGreat start. Give some more details about Gunter Blobel. When was he born? Where did he grow up? Where did he go to school?
As an already acclaimed Polish poet and essayist, Wislawa Szymborska snatched up the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. The infamous award was given to her during her time residing in Poland and was received in regards to her deliberate usage of iconography in biological and historical poems explaining fragments of human reality. Her work was widely known for it's wit, irony, and deceptive simplicity. Szymborska lived most of her life in Krakow and studied both Polish Literature and Polish Society at Jagiellonian University. Her first job in literature enabled her to work as a journalist and columnist. Szymborska's writings are to always be remembered as simple works that express opinions on the motif's of society.
ReplyDeleteA true fighter, Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her dedication and hard work in the law courts of Iran. Taking on many case, she defended many trials relating to child abuse, press, and social cases. However before she was able to do this she became the first female judge before her position was revoked from her. Along with her fellow female employees, she set up protests before finally entering for early retirement. Before getting her license to be a lawyer she wrote ,many books and articles that were published in newspapers and magazine. Now she teaches at a University and lives at home with her husband, her two daughters off to college.
ReplyDeleteHenry Dunant, one of the oldest recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, was the founder of the red cross. After witnessing a brutal war rage in his hometown of Solferino, Italy in 1859. Dunant realized that a change was needed on the battlefield. He quickly devised the idea of his famous organization. Which he went on to include in his book, "A memory of Solferino". Dunant's novel detailed the idea of a system of doctors and nurses who would treat civilians affected by wars in their areas, regardless of which side of the fight they were from. His book was immensely popular and even continued on to be recognized by the Italian government. Once in place there, this visionary's homeland became a shining example for other countries, who soon installed similar systems. However, despite all of the recognition and fame his idea brought him, Henry Dunant did not spend a cent of the money he was given for his efforts on himself. Instead he continued to use it to fund the Red Cross and expand it to serve more than just the victims of war. Henry Dunant's world altering and politically sound ideas, as well as his general philanthropy, are the precise reasons why he was awarded the Nobel Peace prize, and they are why he is one of the most influential laureates the award has ever been bestowed on to.
ReplyDeleteYes! This is what I am looking for. Way to go Jacob. What a cool guy. Not only is he one of the oldest recipients, but he also established the Red Cross. Awesome.
DeleteHenry Dunant was the founder of the very famous organization called the red cross. This all started with a battle between Italian, Australian and french forces in Italy in 1859. He was sad about all the dead and wounded so he decided to organize aid work to help them. And later he wrote a book that contained a plan to make all countries to form associations to help the wounded no matter what side they were on. This later resulted in the first meeting of the international red cross. This lead to him getting a Nobel peace prize in peace.
ReplyDeleteJoe,
DeleteThis is a good start. Try to make your writing scholarly.
Jody Williams won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. She was responsible for providing artificial arms and legs for children who had lost them in landmine explosions. She, along with many others, had felt that landmines were a huge constant threat to people, so she decided to do something about it. Jody had started an international campaign against landmines in 1991. She got it signed by 120 states and made it banned for use, production and sale by the year 1999.
ReplyDeleteTawakkol Karman at 32 was the youngest woman to have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize. Being brought up in Yemen, she witnessed the the civil war of North and South Yemen which lead to the country's political instability and human rights abuses. Karman stepped up by helping others and reporting on injustices in addition to weekly protests for the rights of people and especially women. She won this award in 2011 for her contribution to the peace movement and her battle for women's rights.
ReplyDeleteJulia,
DeleteHow did she report the injustices? Was she a reporter or a published author? Good start, but I still have some questions about Tawakkol Karman.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Born on October 1st, 1924 in Plains, Georgia. He attended Georgia Southwestern College and also received a B.S. degree form the US Naval Academy. While in the Navy, Admiral Hyman Rickover Chose Jimmy Carter to be a part of the nuclear submarine program, located in N.Y. In 1946, he married Rosalynn Smith and returned to his family in Georgia. Carter was elected president on November 2, 1976 and served until 1981. During his time as president, he was faced with trials including the Panama Canal Treaties and the treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel. Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize because of his active works as our president and his efforts to resolve conflict.
ReplyDeleteRobert Koch was awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize of Medicine for his discoveries relating to Tuberculosis. Koch was born on January 11th, 1843 in Clausthal, Germany. He died on May 27th, 1910 in Baden-Baden, also in Germany. Even at an incredibly young age, Koch was a very intelligent child; he taught himself to read by looking at newspapers, astounding his parents. Through his teenage years, his interest in the field of biology grew. This led him to attend the University of Gottingen, where he studied medicine, showing an interest specifically in viruses and infectious diseases. At one point, Koch studied a disease called Anthrax, and his findings on it made him famous. With a better laboratory and easier access to scientific materials, he developed new methods of culturing and staining. Along with this, he discovered the tubercle bacillus and it’s method of growing. He also concluded that the bacilli that cause human and bovine tuberculosis are not identical. On the basis of his discoveries, many scientists have come to new conclusions on this disease, and that’s why today it is a treatable disease. Koch’s Nobel prize is very well-deserved, and with more scientists like him, we could be so much closer to a sickness-free world.
ReplyDeleteNice job Yumna. Have you heard of Robert Koch before?
DeleteJohn E. Sulston won a Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002. He was born on March 27th, 1942 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He went to school at Pembroke college in Cambridge and got a degree in Organic Chemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize with Sydney Brenner and H. Robert Horvitz. They won the award for their discoveries with “genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death”. He worked for years to try to explain the precise way cells in a C. elegans divide. This is what he is primarily known for. He is a campaigner against the patenting of human genetic information. Who knew that studying tiny roundworms could get you a nobel Prize?!
ReplyDeleteEmily,
DeleteMaybe you will also get a Nobel Prize for studying some cool organism? Nice job.
Born on November 7, 1913, Albert was a native of Algeria and had the hobbies of theatre and philosophy. Wanting to dive deeper into the world of philosophy, Albert decides to move to France at the age of 25. During his time, he had started to get involved as a columnist in a newspaper called Combat soon after joining the resistance movement. Until 1947, Albert was involved in political journalism, and had focused more on his essays and fiction when he had retired. Due to his key piece The Myth of Sisyphus and characters Muersault from The Stranger, and Dr. Rieux of The Plague, his piece had expressed his search of moral order through his connections of hope and despair inside of his works. As a result, in 1957 he was awarded The Nobel Prize of Literature because due to his important literary production and its clear-sighted earnestness, it had reflected the problems that the modern conscience has to face today.
ReplyDeleteArianna,
DeleteIs Albert the first or last name? Where did he go to school. Have you read anything he has written?
Sir William Ramsay won the Nobel Chemistry Prize in 1904 in one of the first years of it’s functioning. Not only was he one of the first to receive this prize, but Ramsay discovered and placed many chemicals onto the periodic table. He was the first to discover and name the element “argon”, and later he is held with the responsibility of discovering neon, xenon, and krypton. Later, he also isolated helium, and eventually made and characterized radon. Argon, however, his main element, was discovered after he had attended a lecture and discovered that there was a dense element with no chemical activity in the air. His scientific genius definitely earns him the pride of a Nobel prize, as he discovered four gases, and showed that these four gases as well as helium and radon could be characterized as the noble gases, gases that show absolutely no chemical activity. Ramsay not only rightfully earned his prize, but he proved that the noble gases are states of matter that really do matter.
ReplyDeleteElie Wiesel was born In 1928 in Romania, just 11 years before World War ll had begun. Wiesel's family was moved to Auschwitz in 1944 when Elie was just 16 years old. After his mother and younger sister died in the gas chamber, Elie and his father were moved Buchenwald. Shortly after his father died of starvation. Wiesel and his two older sisters were still alive when Americans liberated the camps. After being freed Wiesel moved to Paris and studied at the Sorbonne and became a journalist. Elie published his first book, a memoir of his experiences in the camp, in 1958. He has published 30 books since then. Wiesel speaks out about the persecution of Jews and "has made it his life's work to bear witness to the genocide committed by the Nazis during World War II." Elie won the Nobel Peace prize in 1986 for his literary works about his experiences in the concentration camps. Elie was chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council for six years and currently lectures at Boston University.
ReplyDeleteJohn F. Nash Jr. was awarded the Nobel Prize of Economic Sciences for his development in the field of game theory. He was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, and later studied at Princeton were he changed his major a few times. He eventually found interest in the game theory and aided in much of its development. On researching this topic, game theory is the interaction of groups of people. This states the proper conduct of a person, or how a person should act accordingly in the world of business. With this theory developed, it helped change the world of economics.
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ReplyDeleteWangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She won for her contribution to women rights and environmental health. In 1977 Maathai Started an organization called the Green Belt Movement, this organization's goal was to help African women give back to the environment by planting trees. The trees can then provide for the women who planted them, by giving them food, firewood and other necessities. Wangari Maathai once said “you strike women you strike rock”, she felt that women in Africa were underprivileged and treated poorly, she held protests and even ran for president. Wangari Maathai did everything in her power to make the world a better place.
Mohamed ElBaradei received a nobel peace prize in 2005 for his efforts in trying to prevent the use of nuclear weapons in the military and, instead, for peaceful purposes. He was born on the 17th of June 1942, in Cairo, Egypt. He is the director general of the IAEA. Which stands for the International Atomic Energy Agency. He is married to Aida Elkachef, has a daughter, Laila, and a son, Mostafa, Through his entire career, ElBaradei worked towards the safe and peaceful use of nuclear weapons. His work towards international peace earned him the Nobel Peace Prize the same year he had become reelected for a third time as head of the IAEA. Along with his nobel peace prize, ElBaradei has earned many other awards as well.
ReplyDeleteNiels Bohr won a nobel prize in physics in 1922. One of Bohr's best accomplishments was his atomic cell structure. He created this structure so people could easily draw a cell. It consists of a circle that represents the nucleus, and rings around the nucleus that show how many electrons the cell has. Another accomplishment of Bohr was being one of the main physicists to create a atomic bomb during World War Two. Niels Bohr had many other accomplishments but these were his most famous, he also won many other awards for his accomplishments.
ReplyDeleteLloyd S. Shaple was born June 2, 1923 in Cambridge, MA, USA. Lloyd was a mathematician and economist. He won his Nobel prize in 2012 from his economic skills. He gained these skills while attending Princeton University and Harvard University. He got his prize while he was working at University of California. He stated that, in order to fix an economic problem, there needs to be a stable match for all agents that was included in the problems “formula”. An example of this is matching kids up with schools and making sure every kid got their specific needs. This problem solving is known as Cooperative Game Theory.
ReplyDeleteIn 1907 Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Noble Prize in Literature for his "...consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination...". He is the author of the famous "Jungle Book". I remember reading this beautifully crafted book as a child. I believe Disney made a movie about his book and I still have it on VCR to this day. I haven't watched it in a while and this is making me want to watch it again and bring back good childhood memories. He is no doubt the best author of my childhood and many of others. He was original with his ideas and concepts. He himself is an original and wonderful author in my eyes. He deserved the Noble Prize in Literature.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should watch the "Jungle Book" tomorrow on our cold day.
DeleteI never really understood what the big fuss about the Jungle Book was. I mean, what is the significance in the story? I remember the song the bare neccessities, but I just don't understand the impact. Why is this story so great? What about this piece of literature makes it worthy of the nobel prize? Or rather, its author. Perhaps if I read the book, I would know.
DeleteWoodrow Wilson (U.S president form 1913-1921) was the Noble peace prize recipient for his organization of the league of nations. The league of nations was formed to keep peace following the first world war by uniting the victorious allied forces, with the defeated axis forces. France and Britain were meant to provide help to rebuild the defeated countries, but they instead taxed them heavily for starting the conflict in the first place. Eventually this unrest between axis and allies lead to a 2nd world war. Woodrow Wilson's league of nations proved successful for a period of a few years, but eventually fell to the greed of the European Allied powers and caused exactly what the league sought to prevent. Wilson was able to gain public support for his peace measures, and became one of the few U.S politicians to win the Nobel peace prize.
ReplyDeleteWerner Heisenberg received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1932 for quantum mechanics. He also won the Nobel Prize because of his theory and applications to all of the allotropic for ms of hydrogen. These ideas, discoveries, and theories made a huge impact on the world of quantum mechanics because they increased the world's understanding on velocity, and how particles react to light, movement, and speed. An interesting fact about Heisenberg is that at the end of World War two, Heisenberg among many other scientists, were taken away by U.S. soldiers, and held captive in the United States. After Heisenberg was released, the world heard of all of his magnificent discoveries, and he was being asked to give lectures all around the world. Scotland, the U.S., India, and all over Germany. One other important discovery Heisenberg made was the invention of the matrix, the mathematical lesson. So, Heisenberg was talented in all parts of mathematics, and extremely gifted in the quantum mechanics. One day, I hope to give lectures all around the world just like Heisenberg.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people won Nobel Prizes in chemistry, but the one that stood out to me was in 1992. Rudolph A. Marcus won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems. Rudolph was born on July 21, 1923, meaning that he won the Nobel Prize at age 69. The Marcus theory, named after him, explains the rates of electron transfer reactions; the rate at which an electron can jump or move from a chemical species to another. The Marcus Theory takes the place of Eyring's transition state theory in some cases for redox reactions without making or breaking bonds. Marcus Theory has now addressed heterogeneous electron transfer. Some of Marcus's key papers include: "On the Theory of Oxidation-Reduction Reactions Involving Electron Transfer" and "Electrostatic Free Energy and Other Properties of States Having Non-equilibrium Polarization" Rudolph's interest in science began as a kid. He did very well in math in high school, and later studied at McGill University under Dr. Carl A. Winkler. At the University, Rudolph took more math classes than a normal chemistry student would take, which would help him later in creating the Marcus Theory. He earned a Bachelor of Science and a Ph.D. in 1946, and then in 1952, developed the Marcus Theory. He then taught at the University of Illinois in 1964. That concludes my summary of Rudolph A. Marcus and his Nobel Prize winning in 1992.
ReplyDeleteSharing his Nobel success with Yale and Stanford graduates, Randy Schekman first understood more about how a cells transport system is vital in their role of contributing to protein, hormone(etc.) secretions. He knew that if there was any disturbance in the system of one cell, it would divide the incorrect information, leading to diseases and possible eventual death from malfunctioning cells. With this knowledge, in 2013 Schekman was able to reveal a machine that regulates protein transport and secretion in cells, a magnificent discovery that opens doors for more to be discovered. Sharing the victory, Schekman won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Even now, Randy Schekman is investigating solutions to Alzheimer's disease linked with this protein-regulating machine.
ReplyDeleteIn 1962 John Steinbeck won the Noble Prize in Literature. He won his award "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception". Steinbeck is one of the most popular and appreciated classic writers of the modern era. His first major story is Tortilla Flat, it was published in 1935. There on his books became more well known and are still being taught and appreciated today. John's best work is known as The Grapes of Wrath which was published in 1939. The Grapes of Wrath is about a family of farmers moving from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression in search of work. Other famous books by John Steinbeck include Of Mice and Men, The Long Valley, East of Eden and Travels with Charley. Travels with Charley was "a travelogue in which Steinbeck wrote about his impressions during a three-month tour in a truck that led him through forty American states." Six short years after his Noble Prize John Steinbeck passed away.
ReplyDeleteElinor Ostrom, born on August 7th 1933 in Los Angeles California, was the first and only woman so far to have ever received the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008, four years before she passed. The motivation for the prize was "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." Her field was economic governance, in which she contributed the challenge of the conventional wisdom by demonstrating how local property can be successfully managed by local commons without any regulation by central authorities or privatization. She stood up for what she thought was right, similar to Margaret Thatcher and many other wonderful historic female characters, which draws me into her own thinking. Not only was she wonderful, but she stood out to me being the only female winner in all of the years this award was given. She must have never expected such a recognition of her work, but it was well deserved.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Faulkner, a famous American writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.” He officially earned the Prize for the year 1949, but he did not receive it until the following year because the Nobel Prize committee could not reach an agreement on the winner in 1949. So, two Nobel prizes were awarded in 1950, one for the prior year and one for the present one.The speech Faulkner delivered was not immediately intelligible to his listeners, both because of Faulkner’s southern dialect and because the microphone was too distant from his mouth, but when it was printed in newspapers the following day, it was immediately called one of the most significant speeches ever delivered at a Nobel ceremony.
ReplyDeleteHe donated part of his Nobel money "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers", eventually resulting in the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and donated another part to a local Oxford bank, establishing a scholarship fund to help educate African-American teachers at Rust College in nearby Holly Springs, Mississippi. The government of France made Faulkner a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 1951.
In 1987, Oscar Arias Sanchez was awarded the Noble Peace prize for ending the civil wars that were going on in Central America. He made a peace plan that was approved by Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua,El Salvador, and Costa Rica. He was the president of Costa Rica up Until 2010. He is also the author of many historical and political books.
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DeleteI would have thought that you would be able to provide more detail since you had an extra two days to complete this.
Robert Koch was born on December 11, 1843. Koch studied at the University of Berlin. He is the in inventor of the germ theory. In addition to isolating tuberculosis, he also isolated cholera and anthrax. In 1905 he was awarded the Nobel medicine Prize for his discoveries in relation to tuberculosis. Koch died on May 27, 1910.
ReplyDeleteLui Xiaobo was a literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who called for political reforms and the end of communist single party rule. He organized many demonstrations (all peaceful) that asked for more human rights. He was also imprisoned multiple times, all for strange reasons. During his fourth prison term, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." He was, in a way like the MLK of China. Just like MLK protested african american right, Xiaobo did it on a larger scale. He is still alive and imprisoned today (until 2020). He is highly revered by most of China, and is the first person ever to recieve the Nobel prize while currently living in China, and being in prison while recieving it.
ReplyDeleteOn August 26, 1910 a women was born by the name of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu but she is better known as Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa was and still is a very influential women. On October 7,1950 she started a group called The Missionaries of Charity, what this group did was help people like alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers. This is only one of the many things that Mother Teresa has done to earn herself the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1979 Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her amazing work with anybody and everybody who needed any sort of help.
ReplyDeleteAlbert Einstein was a German theoretical physicist who lived during the 20th century. He has done much work to further science and is most famous for his theory of relativity ( Energy = mass x the speed of light squared). Einstein also worked of the Manhattan Project which later spawned the atomic bomb. Although Einstein helped make the bomb, he later regretted it and said "I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." implying he thought the world would end after the creation of the atomic bomb. He was awarded the 1921 nobel prize in physics for his work with theoretical physics. He was awarded it mainly for his work with the photoelectric effect. He received the award in 1922.
ReplyDeleteErwin Schrodinger, born and died in Vienna, Austria won the nobel prize in phisics in 1933 at the age of 43. He was working in the University of Berlin when he won the award. He is credited for finding a new more productive form of atomic theory. Which was used to accuratley measured the energy of atoms.
ReplyDeleteAung San Suu Kyi was born on the 19 of June in 1945 in Rangoon, Burma which is now known as Yangon, Mayanmar. She was the daughter of the legendary liberation movement leader Aung San. Once done with her studies she returned home in 1988. Soon she then led the opposition to the military junta that had ruled Burma since 1962. She later helped found the National League for Democracy, and was elected secretary general of the party. She was against all forms of violence and called on the military leaders to hand over power to a civilian government. An election held in 1990 showed the National League for Democracy had a clear victory, but the generals prevented the legislative assembly. Instead they kept arresting more and more members of the opposition and refused to release Suu Kyi from house arrest.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Peace Prize she had won though had a significant impact in the worlds opinion in favor of Aung San Suu Kyi's cause, But she still is under strict watch in Rangoon and the old forces are still in power.
ReplyDeleteGabriel García Márquez was born March 6 1928, Aracataca, Colombia. He got his award for writing prose fiction in 1982. His writing consisted of short stories that reflected continents problems through a combination of imagination and realism. One of his notable books was One Hundred Years of Solitude which was based on the house he grew up in and all the events that happened around him. After that he moved to Spain with his family to press his career on. it was there he got inspired to keep writing more and more great books. Then he went into theater for a short while. Finally after all of his hard work and effort he was awarded the Nobel Prize.