Last Friday, October 10, 2014, the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 is to be awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay for their ongoing struggle against the "suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education."
Malaya Yousafzay is the youngest person ever to be awarded a Nobel Prize. As a young child born in Pakistan, she was an advocate for girls' education. The Taliban first issued a death threat against her and then on October 9, 2012, a gunman attempted to assassinate her on her way home from school. Yes...you read that right and she is only seventeen years old.
Malala shares the Nobel Prize with Kailash Satyarthi. Satyarthi is a human rights activist from India who gave up a lucrative career as an Electrical Engineer to initiate a crusade to end child slavery and exploitative child labor. Satyarthi has led to the rescue of over 78,500 child slaves and helped create a model for their education and rehabilitation.
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 Peace Prize winner as there are also awards for Physics, Medicine, 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.
Mother Teresa- Nobel Peace Prize Winner of 1979
ReplyDeleteAt the age of 12 Teresa felt a strong call from God to commit herself to him and his work. Soon after, she joined a convent, received an education, and was sent to Calcutta, India to teach. After she spent time teaching she felt a second call from God to go serve and live with the poor. At first Mother Teresa didn’t want to leave her job teaching the children of Calcutta, but then realized that working and living among the poor is where she was needed most. While she was working with the poor she founded a new sisterhood, the Missionaries of Charities. Together with her fellow missionaries, all over Calcutta, Mother Teresa built homes for orphans, nursing homes for lepers and hospices for the terminally ill. As the missionaries collected more money, her orphanages and hospices spreaded all over India and the rest of the world. At the time of her death Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity were operating 610 missions in 123 countries. In 1979 Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize due to her amazing humanitarian work
Mother Teresa's life journey truly does amaze me. She realized she was called by God to bless all the people she associated with and was here on this Earth to serve others. One thing thing I know for sure is that, a large majority of people today wouldn't give up their lives to serve as others servant.
DeleteI agree with Elise. What Mother Teresa accomplished is truly amazing as well as difficult. She always put other before her, and like Elise said, many people wouldn't even think of doing what she did
DeleteI chose to biography Dr. Karl Landsteiner, who received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1930. Landsteiner grew up in Vienna, and studied medicine at the University of Vienna. He graduated in 1891, and continued to do biochemical research, working in laboratories in Zurich, Wurzburg and Munich. He also made important discoveries about polio in Paris. However, the reason Landsteiner is credited with the Nobel Prize is his discovery of the different blood types. He figured out that a person with a specific blood type could only be transfused with that same type of blood, and classified the different blood types with the names they still have today, A, B, AB and O. Eventually he was offered a job in New York, and he moved there. In New York he learned more about the bleeding in a new-born, and the Rh-factor in blood. Landsteiner is said to have died while working in his lab. He had a heart attack, and died a few days later in the institute’s hospital.
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ReplyDeleteJohn Steinbeck grew up in California. He never graduated college and failed to establish himself as a free-lance writer (self-employer who chooses who he wants to work for). However, he did manage to write and publish novels and short stories. Those novels criticize the problems of rural labor. The short stories included The Long Valley, The East of Eden, The Winter of our Discontent, and The Grapes of Wrath, which was a best seller. It was about tenant workers who became migratory workers in California because they weren’t able to support themselves in Oklahoma. His works contributed to great literature and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. I haven’t read any of his books, but perhaps he won the nobel prize because of his distinct writing style, true, inspiring memoirs and mindful writing of economic problems. The article states John was awarded the prize “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception” (Nobel Prize in Literature 1962).
This biography on John Steinbeck is quite interesting, and this name sounds very familiar to me. Though I have never read, yet even heard of his books, I think I did at least know that he was a writer. After reading this post, I almost feel urged to try reading one of his book.... I mean, they must be good, obviously, because he won a very big prize on his writing. However, I do find it interesting how he writes his stories while combining both realistic as well as imaginative problems and events. I don't necessarily have a favorite writing style between the two.
DeleteWilliam Lawrence Bragg, born in Adelaide South Australia on March 31 1890. Him and his father were awarded with the Nobel physics prize in 1915 for their work on x-rays and crystal structure. William is the youngest person to ever win the Nobel prize for physics. He says they did it for, "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays" William died July 1 1971 in Ipswich United Kindom.
ReplyDeleteI chose to write about Hiroshi Amano won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2014. He was born in 1960 in Hamamatsu, Japan. Hiroshi Won the award for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources ever since. In 1982 he became a student as part of professor Akasaki’s group, and since then he had been conducting his own research. He was researching and nitride semiconductors which are used in blue light-emitting diodes. In 1985 he began to develop low temperature buffer layers. Finally in 1989 he was able to successfully construct the blue light-emitting diodes for the first time ever by anyone in the world. This blue light was able to save energy compared to the white light that everyone had. His inventions lead to him winning the Nobel Prize for physics.
ReplyDeleteBorn in January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, GA Martin Luther King Jr grew up in a society where he was discriminated because of his skin color. MLK was inspired by his father who was a baptist minister to make sure everyone was equal. One of his first acts was the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott he and his people didn't ride the bus for weeks because they didn't agree they had to sit on the back on the bus. This caused the bus companies to lose money because most of the people who rode the bus were part of MLK’s people and the bus companies quickly allowed the African Americans to sit wherever the desired to. Also, what MLK is most famous for is his “I have a dream” speech. In his speech he highlights how he wishes everyone could be treated equal and with respect on no one would be discrimination. On October 14, 1964 MLK one his Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to create a more peace world. But only four year later MLK was killed but his legacy still lives on today.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing that throughout all the hate in Martin Luther King Jr's life . He was still able to move forward and not only move everyone in the world in the process, but earn a Noble Peace Prize.
DeleteI think it's unbelievable how much Mr. King was able to accomplish without taking any violent actions. He truly resembles the Nobel Peace Prize's purpose of recognition.
DeleteI wrote about Obama and the barriers he broke and he would not have even been president without MLK standing up for all of the African-Americans.
DeleteIt's fascinating how great of a figure MLK was. The measures he took to stop descrimination are so incredible and inspiring.
DeleteI think it is great how he stood up for what he believed through all of those hard times. He was a well-deserved percipient of the Nobel Peace prize.
DeleteIt's incredible how MLK was able to stay true to himself through all the hate he took. He was arrested many times and all the trouble he dealt with was worth it in the end.
DeleteMalala Yousafzai was born in Mingora, Pakistan on July 12th, 1997. Malala was shot in the head by the Taliban gunmen in October 2012 for campaigning for girls’ education, and ever since she has been determined to change the world in a positive way. It amazes me how someone like Malala has so much passion and drive after such a life-changing event happened to her. Along Malala’s life, she struggled to get a good education in her town and she believed girls too, had the right to become educated and successful. After Malala survived the fight for her life due to the shooting, she stood up for what she believed in and allowed her voice to be heard throughout the world. Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize for her strong focus against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
ReplyDeleteI remember hearing about Malala's fight last year, and I fully believe she deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for it. If people with the strength and determination of Malala didn't exist, no one would have the rights they have today. We need leaders like her to push past oppression and create a better future. Thanks to her effort, hundreds of girls around the world will be given the education we take for granted everyday. I sincerely hope I live to see that.
DeleteIt really is amazing that after such a traumatizing event, she continued to push for what she believed in. Although this seems to be a theme in the Peace Prize winners, they were passionate about something, yet they carried it out in a respectable manner. It is amazing the self control and courage these people possess. They surely are worthy of these honorable awards!
DeleteI remember talking about Malala's incident recently after it had happened, and it just blows me away to think that after such a traumatizing experience she kept on fighting for what she believed in. Even after being targeted she had the courage and determination to do what she thought was right not just for herself, but for many other young girls. I definitely believe that she deserves this award.
DeleteI choose Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Mrs. Sirleaf was born on October 29 1938 in Monrovia, Liberia. Sirleaf, and two others won, and shared the Nobel Peace Prize, they won the prize “for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s right to full participation in peace-building work”. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. Seven years earlier, she had become the president of Liberia. She was Liberia’s very first female president and still holds the position today. You can definitely say Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is one incredible woman!
ReplyDeleteThat's really cool that Liberia has a woman president who has wont the Nobel Peace Prize! I saw that our president has won the Nobel Peace Prize too, I thought that was cool.
DeleteI chose Nelson Mandela. Mr. Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 in South Africa. Nelson Mandela was one of the first black lawyers in South Africa. He also was elected leader of youth wing of the African National Congress liberation movement. From 1964 to 1982 Mandela was in a prison for treason and conspiracy against South Africa. During his prison sentence Nelson Mandela became the started rallying for the South African oppressed. Mandela shared his Nobel Peace Prize with the man that released him from prison.
ReplyDeleteNelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. He was awarded the prize along with former president of South Africa, Frederik Willem de Klerk for “their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa". Mr. Mandela was the first black lawyer in South Africa but was soon elected leader of the youth wing of the ANC liberation movement. Nelson Mandela was captured after his attempt of sabotage and sent to prison in 1964 and stayed there till 1990. During his time in prison he became a rallying point for South Africa’s oppressed, and the world’s most famous political prisoner.
ReplyDeleteI (surprisingly) Didn't know who Nelson Mandela was until I noticed a news article on his death. Not knowing who he was I did a little research and found out what he did for South Africa, and the challenges he faced along the way.
DeleteLiu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. Liu was born on December 28, 1955 and lived in China. When he was younger he studied literature and philosophy, and also worked as a lecturer in Beijing, Europe and the USA. He won the award for his long, pacifist struggle for human rights in China. He believed the people of China should have "freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration" which is stated in Article 35 of the Chinese Constitution. In 1989, Liu Xiaobo partook in student protests on Tiananmen Square and because of that served two years in prison. He also spent three years in a labour camp as a result of criticising the China’s one-party system. A manifesto supporting the change of China’s political and legal system to be more similar to democracy was co-written by Liu in 2008. Consequently, he was arrested and sentenced to eleven years in prison for undermining state authorities. All of his actions immensely benefited the betterment of human rights in China.
ReplyDeleteI choose John O'Keefe who was born in 1939, New York. He received the Noble Prize in 2014. He received the Nobel Prize for physiology. He was also credited with half of the share of the prize, sharing the prize with May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser. He won the prize for "their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain" meaning that O'Keefe was working away at the memory and spatial navigation in the brain.
ReplyDeleteI chose to write about Kailash Satyarthi the winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. Kailash is 60 years old; he was born January 11 1954 in Madhya Pradesh, India. He has a degree in electrical engineering but gave it up to work on ending child labor. He worked with organizations such as the International Center of Child Labor and Education, Global Campaign for Education, and Education International. In 1994 Kailash founded Goodweve a nonprofit organization that works towards ending child labor in the rug industry. Through his nonprofit work Kailash has saved over 78,000 children from slavery and has developed programs for their education. This world needs more people like Kailash to dedicate them self to the less fortunate’s well-being.
ReplyDeleteI read about Theodore Roosevelt, my second favorite president of the United States(Lincoln is my absolute first favorite president!). Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 because he negotiated peace in the Russo-Japanese war during 1904-1905. Additionally, he used arbitration to resolve a dispute in Mexico. Roosevelt was a radical in the republican party, meaning he supported change and revolution. His award was controversial because he was the first statesman to be awarded the Nobel peace prize and many argued he was "military mad." People thought the award was given to him for political favor, but I believe he honestly deserved it. Roosevelt worked hard for the safety and prosperity of our country, and compared to many of our presidents, he is one of the best we've had.
ReplyDeleteNobel Prize in Physics:Shuji Nakamura
ReplyDeleteShuji Nakamura is a professor and scientist who won a Nobel Prize for creating an LED light and laser diode in order to save energy and have more efficiency. This creation became beneficial to many people which gave praise to Nakamura for helping others in their life. He was born in 1954 in Japan and began to study in the United States. Nakamura went to the college of Tokushima where he went into engineering until 1977 and received a degree. Although he was told and heard creating a blue LED light was very difficult to do, he stuck with his dream and believed it could work with enough determination and research. With the help of Nobu Ogawa, Nakamura continued his research on topics such as light emitters and a semi conductor. Shuji Nakamura is a great role model to show how he really wanted to find problems in the world and solve them no matter how impossible people might say it is.
I chose to exemplify the courageous efforts of Mairead Corrigan. In 1976, she received the Nobel Peace prize for her extraordinary actions to help end the ethnic and political conflicts in her native Northern Ireland. She was the aunt of three children who were killed after being hit by an Irish Republican Army getaway car in which the driver was shot by a British soldier. Responding to this violence now faced by her community, Mairead and two other women organized massive peace demonstrations, fighting for an end to the needless bloodshed their country was encountering. Together, the three co-founded the Peace People, an organization geared towards the building of a just and peaceful community for all. Mairead Corrigan was later recognized for her efforts in making Northern Ireland an equitable country, and received the Nobel Peace Prize with great respect and humbility.
ReplyDeleteI read about the recipient of the Nobel Peace, Nelson Mandela. Although he was known for his rebellious strides, they were for a positive cause for a liberation movement. He was sentenced to life in prison, and was awarded the Peace Prize for the peaceful resolution he and his "Co-Recipient," also the man who freed him, Frederick Willem de Klerk, came to. He was a very passionate man, and seems very deserving of the peace prize for all of his courageous acts for rights. Not many people today would risk their life and freedom for something they believe in, let alone followed up in a peaceful manner, and that is something to be commended.
ReplyDeleteI think that Nelson Mandela's persistence is what made him earn the peace prize. Even though he was locked in prison he was still a big idol for other people. I would also agree that not many people risk their lives and their freedom for something they believe in. That's what make Nelson different from anyone else.
DeleteNelson Mandela is such a great person he totally deserved a noble peace prize. He stood up for what he believed in and made people want to join in. He also risked his life for ours just to have freedom.
DeleteNikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika. He studied at the Realschule, Karlstadt in 1873, the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague. He originally planned to specialize in physics and mathematics, but he soon became fascinated with electricity. Nikola Tesla came to the United States in 1884 with an introduction letter from Charles Batchelor to Thomas Edison: “I know two great men,” wrote Batchelor, “one is you and the other is this young man.” He spent the next 59 years of his life living in New York, improving Edison’s line of dynamos, and soon Tesla and Edison started to argue over AC and DC (alternating and direct current). AC “won” because it was more practical. Tesla’s A.C. induction motor is widely used throughout the world in industry and household appliances. It started the industrial revolution at the turn of the century. He invented the Tesla coil, in 1891. Among his discoveries are the fluorescent light, laser beam, wireless communications, wireless transmission of electrical energy, remote control, robotics, Tesla’s turbines and vertical take off aircraft. He is the father of the radio and of modern electrical transmissions systems. He registered over 700 patents worldwide. He also lit 200 lamps without wires from a distance of 25 miles (40 kilometers) and created man-made lightning. He practically invented the basis for modern electricity. I hope that you now see why he was awarded the nobel prize in 1937 for physics (electricity is a part of physics).
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ReplyDeleteErnest Hemingway- Literature Prize Winner of 1954
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21st, 1899. As a child, he always held a passion for writing, and turned this love into a career at age seventeen when he became a newspaper writer in Kansas City. However, his passion was put on hold during the first world war when he was called to fight. This experience deeply affected Hemingway, and gave him fuel for his writing, kicking off a string of short stories. Eventually, he began writing longer stories, which then turned into novels. The significance of Hemingway’s writing was enormous due to the style he used, and how much it influenced contemporary styles. People were able to relate to his stories, and that is why he is still remembered to this day.
I picked Professor John O’ Keefe, who is sharing a Nobel Prize this year in medicine for the discovery of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. O’ Keefe was born in 1939 in New York, New York. Who then moved to to London after his studies in the U.S, and is now working and living in London, United Kingdom. As a professor at the University college. At the college, and at his home he studied the brain for 43 years trying to find answers to find the answers that most people a sceptical about. Now after all these years he finally found the answers about the mysterious brain earning himself half a Nobel Prize.
ReplyDelete(Martin Luther King Jr.- Peace Prize Winner of 1964)
ReplyDeleteMartin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His goal was to someday change the world into a place where people are judged by their personal attributes, or qualities rather than their skin color. In 1955 he began his journey to convince the Government to end the discrimination colored people had been suffering from. Then in 1963, he spoke in front of about a quarter of a million people at the Lincoln Memorial with his famous "I have a dream" speech. He received his Nobel Prize in 1964 for his civil rights and social justice he has contributed to the world, for he had fought for an end to racial discrimination long and hard with his words, but not with violence.
I picked Elie Wiesel. He got the Nobel peace prize in 1986. He is a Jewish author,philosopher and humanist and he is the worlds leading spokesman on the Holocaust. In 1944 when Hitler's forces moved into Hungary in 1944, him and his family were send to the Auschwitz extermination camp. In Auschwitz his mother and sister perished in the gas chamber there, and in 1945, him and his father were sent to the Buchenwald camp where his father died of starvation and dysentery. He was seventeen years old when American soldiers opened up the camp. Through his spreading of the word about the Holocaust he was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
ReplyDeleteI chose to write a biography about Theodore Roosevelt. He was born on October 27, 1858 in New York, NY. He was the president of the United States of America from September 14, 1901 to March 4, 1909. As a child he had asthma and poor eyesight. Just like most children today. He grew stronger and stronger after he exercised frequently, and increased his health and body strength. Between 1880 and 1900 he wrote more than a dozen books. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for many reasons. One of them being that he negotiated peace in the Russo-Japanese war. Another being that he resolved a dispute with Mexico. He was very well known and the first president to win the Peace Prize.
ReplyDeleteI think that is really interesting. I had no idea that Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize, and was the first president to receive it.
DeleteI chose to write about Frederick G. Banting. He was born in Canada, and was the youngest of five children. Frederick served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and received the Military Cross. Soon, Frederick discovered insulin, which controls the metabolism of sugar. He shared his Noble Prize with Macleod. I think that Frederick is very important because he found something that can help cure cancer, and he was young when he received his award. This proves that you have potential at any age to discover something new, and possibly save people's lives.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, age shouldn't matter on the impact you have in the world. That is very inspirational for someone so young to prove that you can become more.
DeleteI chose Edward C. Kendall. He was very educated in the fields of biochemistry and endocrinology. He was born on March 8th, 1886 in South Norwalk, CT USA. He died on the 4th of May in 1972, Princeton, NJ, USA. He won the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine. He was a biochemist at the time he got the award. During his career he wanted to isolate the hormone associated with the thyroid. Edward also had many other contirubutions to biochemistry and medicine.
ReplyDeleteI choose Frederick G. Banting. He was born on November 14 in Alliston Canada. During the time he got the award he was studying at the university of Toronto in Canada. He was awarded the Nobel prize in medicine for the discovery of insulin in 1923. He is also the youngest person to receive the nobel prize in medicine.
ReplyDeleteIts amazing back in the 1920s a young person like him would have access to the tools to discover insulin. That now is so commonly used around the world and to think that in 1923 they found this amazing discovery.
DeleteI chose to talk about the received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Even though I don't believe Obama has done a lot for our country, he did help our country become more peaceful with other countries. He received it for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." He was the fourth president to receive the award with the other three being Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jimmy Carter. Obama was born in Hawaii and graduated from Harvard before becoming the first African-American president ever. He broke barriers both in our country and between other ones. He was a worthy recipient and has been president since 2008 and will finish his final term in 2016.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Obama has not done a whole lot for us, but has created peace between the U.S and many other countries than ever before. I also think its very fascinating how he is only one of four presidents to receive this medal.
DeleteBlog #5: Nobel Prize in psychology and medicine
ReplyDeleteMay-Britt Moser was born in 1963, in Fosnavag, Norway. She works in the field of psychology. May-Britt Moser was very in shock when she was informed of the fact that she won this Nobel Prize for her work. May-Britt Moser is a professor of neuroscience and a director of Neural Computation at the Norwegian university of science and technology. Moser and her husband are the fifth married couple to be awarded a nobel prize. In 2005, they discovered a type of nerve cell that generates a coordinate system and allowing for precise positioning. Together these discoveries explain how the brain creates a map of space and how we navigate through the environment. All of this work leading up to her winning the nobel prize in psychology or medicine for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
I chose to write about William Faulkner. Faulkner was born in 1897, and grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He did very well throughout elementary school, but once he reached 7th grade, he started to skip classes and study on his own. He repeated 11th and 12th grade and never graduated high school. Faulkner began writing exclusively poetry as an adolescent, and didn’t write his first novel, Soldiers’ Pay, until 1925. Throughout his lifetime, he wrote 13 books, and numerous short stories and screenplays. William won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 52 for, “his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel”. He was also known for the diction and cadence in his writing. Faulkner was, and is, a inspiration to many authors. Although his personal life was very troubling, he is now a renowned author and very successful.
ReplyDeleteMalala Yousafzai won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, sharing this honored prize with Kailash Satyarthi. Malala Yousafzai lives in the United Kingdom and was born on the 12th of July in 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan. Yousafzai is the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She is only 17 years old! Her prize motivation to earn this award was “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of children to education” (nobelprize.org). As a child, she became an advocate for girls' education. This resulted in a Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. Luckily, she survived. This never stop her from standing up, and she continued to speak out on the importance of education. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2013, but this year she was nominated again and she won. I feel she is a great role model for multiple reasons because of the determination she showed throughout her life.
ReplyDeleteThis is really interesting that such a young person can much such a huge impact on other young person's lives, that she is actually able to win a such a highly prestigious award. This just goes to show how strong one voice is.
DeleteErnest Otto Fischer was born on November 10 1918. in Sollen, Germany. He studied chemistry at the technology University of Munich. But he did not graduate college until 1949 because he served in world war two and was not released by the Americans in 1945. He won the Noble prize for chemistry in 1973.
ReplyDeleteA leader in the discovery of different radioactive elements, Marie Curie was the winner of TWO Nobel Prizes- Once in Physics in 1903, and then once in Chemistry in 1911. She is only one of four people to receive two nobel prizes, the first woman to ever receive one, and the only person to receive a nobel prize in two different sciences. This remarkable woman was born in Warsaw, Poland. She eventually moved to Paris where she met her husband, but to get enough money to continue research together had to both teach a lot. Her major achievement was the discovery of polonium and radium, both radioactive elements. She won the nobel prize in 1903 alongside her husband, Pierre, and another important researcher in radioactive phenomena, Antoine Henri Becquerel. In 1911 she won the prize in chemistry due to her discovery of the two elements, and because she developed a method to separate radium on its own, which is used today to treat things like cancer. Eventually, it is believed that her prolonged exposure to radiation took its toll, and in 1934 she died.
ReplyDeleteI chose Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn for the nobel prize winner. He is a Russian man. He won the literature award in 1970. He won for his groundbreaking ethical force in Russian literature. He’s even changed Russian traditions in his work. Which I know is very hard to do.
ReplyDeleteThe Chemistry Nobel Prize of 1960 was awarded to Willard F. Libby, because of his discovery of radiocarbon dating. Radiocarbon dating is what archaeologists and anthropologists use to determine the age of an ancient artifact or skeleton, and to determine the time period they lived in. Born in 1908, Libby began his educational career in a Colorado school house, then in 1933, Libby earned his PHD in chemistry. he was involved in project manhattan, a secret project made by the U.S. to develop the first atomic bomb, which was eventually dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Libby was responsible for the diffusion and enrichment of Uranium-235 used in the atomic bomb. Later he was appointed to the University of California, Los Angeles as a chemistry professor and taught freshman chemistry from 1959-1963. Along the way he discovered a way to use Carbon-14 to date ancient objects, thus creating radiocarbon dating, an important use for archaeologists around the world.
ReplyDeleteI have chosen to do Edvard I. Moser, who had received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on October 6, 2014. Edvard is a Norwegian Psychologist who had won prizes all throughout his life. Many of his prizes he was awarded with were also along with his wife May-Britt Moser. For he had even won the Nobel Prize with her and John O'Keefe. They were given the award for their discoveries of cells that create a positioning system in the brain. What they discovered was an “inner GPS” in the brain that makes it possible to adjust ourselves in space, demonstrating a “cellular basis” for higher intellectual thinking. Thus, making them worthy of obtaining the Nobel Prize.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel prize winner I choose to write about was Shirin Ebadi. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her work in woman and children's rights. She was born in Iran on June 21st, 1947 and was still a citizen of the country when she received the award. Shirin Ebadi was the first female judge in Iran and fought for people she believed were being treated unfairly by the police. After that she started multiple organizations for the rights of woman and children in Iran and wrote books about more freedom too. Like a divorce law for example. Overall, Shirin Ebadi wanted to help the woman and children in Iran and did so through law and support groups. Due to her actions she did deserve the Nobel Peace Prize because she was and still is a leader for woman and children in Iran.
ReplyDeleteI chose to talk about Brian K. Kobilka. He was born in 1955 in Little Falls, MN, USA. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2012. Specifically in the field of biochemistry that he co-won this award with Robert J. Lefkowitz. He part won this award because of his studies in G-protein-coupled receptors. He was first successful in the 1980s with how adrenaline and how it functions. This led to present day were approximately half of all medications use G-protein–coupled receptors
ReplyDeleteMarie Curie was born on November 7th 1867 in Warsaw poland. She was the first woman ever to win a Nobel prize as well as the and the only woman to win the award in two different categories being physics and chemistry. She and her husband Pierre Curie led to discover Polonium and Radium. After her husband died in April of 1906, Marie went on to develop the first form of x ray which is used all over the world today. Marie Curie died on July 4th 1934. Without her efforts we may not have as many medical advancements as we do in technology. She was well deserving of her Nobel prize.
ReplyDeleteI chose to write about J.J Thomson and he was born on December 18, 1856 in Cheetham Hill. Thomson later grew up and attended Owens College in 1870 and then even later became a member at Trinity College in 1876. During 1880, Thomson won Second Smith's Prizeman award and still was a member of Trinity college for the rest of his life. He became a lecturer in 1883 and was a master in 1918 to where he was a professor at Cambridge in physics. Thomson had a very large interest in the atomic structure in which he won the Adams prize in 1884. In 1896, Thomson visited America to give four course lectures (researches in Princeton). After his return from America he made the most outstanding work of his life, the cathode ray tube experiment of the discovery of the electron. Even though he made a phenomenal discovery and fantastic lectures, he died on August 30, 1940.
ReplyDeleteJoseph Rotblat - Nobel Peace Prize in 1995
ReplyDeleteJoseph began his life in Poland, 1908. He grew up to study physics in 1939, and took part in splitting atoms and researching atomic bombs for the Manhattan Project, which was a project that helped developed nuclear weapons during WWII. After his realization that it was possible to make these kinds of weapons of mass destruction, he withdrew himself from the project as he wanted no part in helping. He knew opposing forces were either uncapable, or would create a bigger war. Once gone from the project, he began to devote his time to peace and war prevention. The plan was to eliminate all sorts of arms in the long run. He believed science and research should be the cause of peace. Therefore, these contributions led to his achievment of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.
Andre Geim was born October 21st 1958 in Sochi Russia. He went to school in Nalchik for 10 until he turned 16, then after receiving a gold medal award he went on to pursue a further education. this education was at The Moscow institute of physics and technology (Phystech). He first attempt to gain acceptance was a failure regardless of intelligence. This was largely because of him answering much more difficult questions than what the questions he was asked actually were. His answers were correct for the question he thought he was supposed to answer, but incorrect for what was actually being asked. In 2010 Geim was awarded half of the nobel prize for physics for his and Konstantin Noveslov’s for their experiments regarding 2-D material graphenes.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in the fall of 1897. He was a prestigious writer that wrote many powerful poems and novels about life in the southern US, though he was not recognized by many until he earned his Nobel Prize in Literature. He obtained his Nobel Prize from his contributions to the American Novel. Other awards Faulkner received for his multiple novels included two National Book Awards and two Pulitzer Prizes. Overall, Faulkner was a very influential figure in the field of English literature for his passion of writing stories that touched the lives of many people.
ReplyDeleteI chose Niels Bohr because he discovered electron and radioactivity and changed the way we think about atoms and molecules. He created and proved different theories about his particular field which was theoretical nuclear physics. He proved that electrons move around the nucleus but only in prescribed orbits. He also created the Bohr Model; which is a series of circles with the amount of electrons from that particular atom. This helps all grade levels to understand how atoms really work. He was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1922 and he was the only person to win in this category this particular year.
ReplyDeleteI agree with maverick Bohr and his Bohr models help everyone understand the atom better.
DeleteI chose to talk about William E. Moerner. He was born 1953. He received the award on October 8, 2014. He got the prize for the development of super-resolved florescence microscopy. During the time in which he was given the award he was at a conference in Brazil and only heard about it from his wife who called him. When he received the award his heart was racing and he just asked himself, what now. There is always something that could be done to improve the world for it is never perfect and it might never be. I think that he sees that and all he is trying to do is make it better so we can all live in a better world and society.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read about Adolf Windaus who won the nobel prize in 1928 in chemistry. He was awarded the prize for discovering new treatments in heart treatments and how sunlight can prevent vitamin D rickets in humans.
ReplyDeleteI chose to learn about Rigoberta Menchú Tum. She was born in Guatemala, on January 9th, 1963. During her youth, her homeland was marred with extreme violence. Several family members were killed by the Guatemalan army. The violence became so intense that she was forced to flee to Mexico. Once there, in the early 1980s, she came into contact with a group of European human rights workers in Latin America. She began to agree with the thinking of reconciliation between the government and the people, rather than fighting. She helped with negotiations between the government and guerrilla organizations, until finally an agreement of peace was reached in 1996. Rigoberta then became a UN Ambassador for the world's indigenous peoples. When nominated in 1992, she was in Guatemala. She did not share the Nobel Peace Prize with anyone else when she won.
ReplyDeleteI have chosen Herta Müller. On August 17th, 1953 this great poet was born in Romania. She lived a hard life, with her mother being sent out by Stalin’s dictatorship and her father volunteering to be apart of Hitler’s Waffen when she was a young child. As she grew older, she studied Romanian and German literature from 1973 to 1976, and got her first job as a translator in a machine factory. She started writing, and her first book became an instant hit, making her an overnight sensation in Germany. Of only 47 women to have gotten a Nobel Prize so far, she surely deserves to be one of the few. Her poems, novels, short stories, and essays promotes oppression and conforming to family and state. When awarded the Literature Prize in 2009, Herta was in Germany. She is still alive today, and hopefully is still writing wise words to change our future.
ReplyDeleteThe International Labour Organization - Nobel Peace Prize Winner of 1969
ReplyDeleteCreated in 1919 after the Peace Treaty of Versailles ending WWⅠ, The ILO demanded for social justice and higher living standards for working people. Although the organization was not a single person, or had a single winner, it was a “group” effort which is why it was so significant to the development of the workplace. Gaining rights for working class people proved to be successful even to this day because the work environment is now an equal place where where every worker should feel safe. The contributions of the ILO lead to more peace and less social injustice.
Shinya Yamanaka was born Higashiosaka Japan in 1962. In 1987 to 1989 was when Shinya was a residence and surgeon at the National Osaka hospital, however his surgeon skills were not on par to most, for his first operation on one of his friends took a hour to complete, which a skilled surgeon could have done within ten minutes. Shinya left that career and went to Gladstone Institute of cardiovascular disease in 1993 to 1996, but after that he left that as well to be assistant professor at Osaka city University school, but he was found mostly taking care of the lab mice, instead of conducting acutal research. Shinya decided to step away from a life as a practicing doctor and went to applie for a position at Nara institute of science and technology, where he said he would clarify what embryonic stem cells are and what they can do. as a professor at the institute, Shinya worked on tested cells to see if they could be chanced into pluripotent stem cells, which he accomplished by inserting genes that cells in a undeveloped state into mature cells, which changed them into pluripotent stem cells, and a gateway of wonders was born. With this discovery scientists around the world have been using his work to discover if sick have any differences then regular cells, and opened are eyes to how organisms develop.
ReplyDeleteI choose to write about Kailash Satyarthi she won the Nobel prize this year. She was born January 11 1954. She was born in Madhya Pradesh. He gave up his career to work on childhood labor. He had many organization that he had made for child hood labor. In 1994 he had a non profited organization call goodweve and it works toward ending child labor through the rug industry. With all his hard work and organization he ha saved so many peoples lives more than 78,000 people from child labor. We need more people like him because he put others before himself and stopped many people from child slavery.
ReplyDeleteNiels Bohr is who I chose to write about. Niels Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his outstanding contributions to physical chemistry. Many of Niel's accomplishments served as a stepping stone for later scientists in the journey to investigate and understand the structure of atoms. The famous Bohr Model has even prevailed through the years and we are still using it in class today. Without Bohr's many discoveries, the realm of physical chemistry would not be as it is today.
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ReplyDelete(Sir Alexander Fleming- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
Sir Alexander Fleming was born on August 6th, 1881 in Lochfield, Scotland. He studied at London University and specialized in the fields of antibacterial agents, bacteriology, and biochemistry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for the “discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”. This discovery was very important because penicillin is able to kill many different bacterias. He shared this prize with two other men named Ernst B. Chain and Sir Howard Florey.
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Bacteriologist who was born in Lochfield, Scotland born in August, of 1881 and later died in March, of 1955.The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 was awarded jointly to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases. He had actually been interested in so to speak " the bacteria field of science" since he was young. He had also served throughout World War I as a captain in the Army Medical Corps, and in 1918 he returned to St.Mary's which was the college he went to for medicine. He had won this award because he with the help of others, created Penicillin, a medicine, that we are still using up to this given day.
ReplyDeleteI chose Serge Haroche the winner of the Nobel prize in physics in 2012. Haroche was born in Casablanca,Morocco on September 11th 1994. Haroche left Morocco to France when he was only 12 years old! He currently hold the prize of quantum physics college de France. He received the Nobel prize for physics because of his ground breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.
ReplyDeleteTheodore Roosevelt won the Nobel peace prize in 1904. We won this peace prize for having negotiated peace in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-5. He also resolved a dispute with Mexico by resorting to arbitration as recommended by the peace movement. Roosevelt was the first statesmen to win the award. Roosevelt was a radical in the republican party which means he supported change and revolution. His award was controversial because he was the first statesman to be awarded the Nobel peace prize and many argued he was "military mad." People thought the award was given to him for political favor, but I believe he deserved it. Roosevelt worked hard for the safety and prosperity of our country, and he was one of our best presidents
ReplyDeleteSir Alexander Fleming was born in Lochfield Scotland on August 6th, 1881. He went to Louden Moor School, Darvel School, and Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London where he attended the Polytechnic. He spent four years working in a shipping office before entering St. Mary's Medical School, London University. In world war 1 he served as a captain in an army medical corps. He was able to continue his studying through his military career. In 1928 he observed how a mould created a bacteria free circle around itself. Through more studies he created penicillin. In 1945 he and two other men received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He won the prize because he made a groundbreaking discovery that changed the world.
ReplyDeleteI picked Robert Koch who won the medicine award in 1905. His field in medicine was bacteriology and disease transmission. He won "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis. His affiliation at the time of the award was an institute for infectious diseases in Berlin, Germany. He was born December 11, 1843, in Clausthal Germany. He died on May 27, 1910 in Baden-Baden Germany. He helped research and discover different parts of a deadly disease, many people must be alive today because of his work.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Jackson Zumski, I agree. while Obama may not be the most helpful with our own problems, he is getting us closer to "world peace" which so many people wish and hope for.
ReplyDeleteI chose to do Wangari Maathai, she won the nobel peace prize in 2004. Wangari Maathai was born on April 1 1940, she died on september 25, 2011. She was the first african american women to receive the nobel peace prize. She was also the first female from central africa to receive a doctorate degree in biology. She then became the first female professor in her home country Kenya. Wangari got women in their communities to start planting trees in their neighborhoods, that then started the green belt movement. While running that Wangari Maathai also fought womens rights as well. Leading meetings and gatherings for the women in her community.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Maverick, I agree. Bohr did change the way we think about atoms and molecules. Thanks to him we now have a better structure and we better understand science and the earth we live on.
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ReplyDeleteI have written about William E. Moerner who is a chemist. What is so interesting about his studies is he changed how scientists were to look at single molecules. The 61-year old chemistry professor at Stanford, became the first scientist to measure the light absorption of a single molecule in 1989. In the past microscopes were restricted by limitations that is was hard to see anything that was half wavelength of light. But Moerner and other scientist had broken the maximum resolution and made optical microscopy what it is today. Without scientists like Moerner, we wouldn’t have such high resolution microscopes.
I chose to write about Adolf Windaus he was born on December 25, 1876 and died on June 9, 1959. He won the Nobel prize in 1928 for chemistry. After studying grammar, he took up medicine in 1897 where he studied zoology. He won the prize for his studies with sterols and their elation to vitamins. He also was a major factor in the discovery of cholesterol.
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Born on Jan 24, 1941 in Israel, Dan Shechtman was the only man nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2011 and the Wolf Prize which is a nobel equivalent in Israel. Growing up in Israel didn't always allow for the best education but with a great deal of natural intelligence he was able to join Technion for material engineering in 1975. In 1981 he was on Sabbatical at Johns Hopkins University, where he studied rapidly solidified aluminum transition metal alloys. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman found the icosahedral phase, which opened the field of quasiperiodic crystals. Between 1992 and 1994 he was on sabbatical at NIST, where he studied the effect of the defect structure of CVD diamond. These were major contributions to the world of chemistry which is why he was awarded his prize. His quote well receiving the award was "for the discovery of quasicrystals". The world of chemistry may have never evolved as much if it wasn't for Shechtman.
I chose to write about Simon Kuznets. He won the nobel prize for economics in 1971. Born in April 1901 Russia. Died on July 1985 in Cambridge MA USA. He won the prize for his interpretations of economic growth. Which have helped led into a deeper understanding of economic and social structure.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the article from USA Today, it made me realize that people really do fear unrealistic things. Why fear zombies when you know they are not real? We seem to manipulate things with our minds and make them into something terrifying to us. If we all looked at zombies in the same way, then no one would be scared of them. To get rid of some of our fears, we need to look at how realistic they are in relation to where we live, and how we live. Personally, I am afraid of getting bombed. We do not live far away from Chicago, and being a major US city, it could be a great place to attack. No one stands a chance against a nuclear bomb.
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