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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 Presentation Speech: Yang

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel Foundation provides a fascinating speech by O.B. Klein of the Physics Committee. Elegant, erudite, and fully explanatory of the work of Lee and Yang. His description of a physicist on another planet is very insightful. This is...
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961 Presentation Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
The speech given by Prof I. Waller at the presentation of the Nobel Prize to Robert Hofstadter. Details the work both of Hofstadter and of Rudolf Mossbauer, who shared the prize. Elegantly said, with plenty of scientific detail.
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The Nobel Prize: Ernest Rutherford Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete biography on the life of Ernest Rutherford, 1908 winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Details his education and his many scientific researches. Also contains a listing of his awards and achievements and has some...
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The Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 Presentation Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
This Nobel Foundation site provides the "Presentation Speech by Professor S.A. Arrhenius, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on December 10, 1922."
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The Nobel Prize: Niels Bohr Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel Foundation provides this site about Niels Bohr's contributions to the world of physics, specifically his "investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them." This biography includes information on...
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The Nobel Prize: J. J. Thomson Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this detailed Nobel E-Museum biography which includes information on the scientific world of Joseph John Thomson, which gained world-wide recognition and earned Thomson the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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The Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 Presentation Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site read the 1921 Nobel Prize Presentation Speech, originally given by Professor S. Arrhenius. This speech praises Einstein's contribution to physics, specifically his Theory of Relativity.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel Foundation provides this site about Karl Landsteiner, a scientist who received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Medicine "for his discovery of human blood groups." This website includes both primary texts and secondary resources and an...
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Nobel Foundation tells the scientific work which earned Louis de Broglie the Nobel Prize in Physics. Here, you can read the Presentation Speech in which Professor C.W. Oseen praises Louis de Broglie's work and de...
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1923: Robert Andrews Millikan

For Students 9th - 10th
This Nobel website on the life and scientific work of Robert A. Millikan includes a biography, images, and internet resources for further reading and research. Also included are the 1923 "Presentation Speech" which praised Millikan's...
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The Nobel Prize: Wolfgang Pauli Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel E Museum provides biographical information on Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist and discoverer of the exclusion principle.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peach Prize 2002: Jimmy Carter

For Students 9th - 10th
The official website for the Nobel Museum. Their award for the Peace Prize 2002 went to Jimmy Carter. Website contains a biography, Nobel lecture, and prize award photo.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988: Naguib Mahfouz

For Students 9th - 10th
This the Nobel Foundation page on Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988. You'll find bibliographic information, his Nobel speech, and articles written about him.
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The Nobel Prize: Erwin Schrodinger Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography from the The Nobel Foundation overviews the life and scientific worlk of Erwin Schrodinger, an Austrian scientist who was honored for his work with atomic theory. Read about his education and personal life, and view links...
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize 1962

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Linus Carl Pauling, the winner of the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize. This website is organized into the following sections: "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel Lecture," "Other Resources," and "The Nobel Chemistry Prize 1954."
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987: Susumu Tonegawa

For Students 9th - 10th
This Nobel E-Museum site provides an autobiography and a very detailed description of Mr. Tonegawa's work for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1987.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1919

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Jules Bordet, the scientist awarded with the 1919 Nobel Prize in Medicine "for his discoveries relating to immunity." Site by the Nobel E-Museum.
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The Nobel Prize: Emile Adolf Behring Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel E-Museum offers several lengthy paragraphs on Emil von Behring. Includes links to sections on his Nobel Prize presentation speech and on commemorative stamps in his honor.
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The Nobel Prize: Ernst Boris Chain Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the 1945 co-laureate of the Nobel Prize in Medicine -- Ernst Boris Chain. This Nobel article overviews Chain's education and personal life, but focuses mainly on his his contributions to the study of bacteriology and penicillin.
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The Nobel Prize: Lech Walesa Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel Foundation provides a brief biography of Lech Walesa after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983. Contains a link to the Nobel presentation speech.
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The Nobel Prize: Aristide Briand Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an excellent biography from The Nobel Foundation on the 1926 co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The Nobel Prize: Official Website of the Nobel Prize

For Students 9th - 10th
Home on the web of the Nobel Prize and the foundation that sponsors the awards, given annually, for outstanding contributions in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The site features current winners each year. You will...
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize 2000

For Students 9th - 10th
This Nobel E-Museum website on the winner of the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize, "Kim Dae-jung," is organized into the following sections: "Press Release," "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel Lecture," "Video," and "Nobel Diploma." Read...
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The Nobel Prize: Pierre Curie Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn about Pierre Curie's (1859-1906 CE) work with radiation and contributions to the world of science, which earned him The Novel Prize in Physics, an award he shared with Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie.