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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930: Sinclair Lewis

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about the 1930 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Sinclair Lewis, who was honored "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and...
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The Nobel Prize: Frank B. Kellogg Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Nobel e-Museum, you can learn about the 1929 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Frank Billings Kellogg. This website, in addition to including a biography, provides texts of the Nobel Prize "Presentation Speech" and...
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The Nobel Prize: James Chadwick Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
This sites provides a definitive biography of Chadwick presented by the Nobel (Prize) e-Museum.
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The Nobel Prize: Maurice Wilkins Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, the co-recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine. This article includes a picture of Wilkins and information on both his personal life and public career.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 Award Ceremony

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can find the full text of the speech, by Professor A. Engstrom, presenting the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Maurice Wilkins, James Watson, and Francis Crick for their discovery of DNA's structure. The speech...
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The Nobel Prize: Jacinto Benavente Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about the life and literary works of Jacinto Benavente, a Spanish writer honored primarily for his drama.
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The Nobel Prize: Jose Echegaray Award Ceremony Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the text for the presentation of the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature. Scroll down to "II" for biographical information on Echegaray and his work.
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The Nobel Prize: Charles G. Dawes Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from The Nobel Foundation provides detailed information about the life of Charles Dawes.
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The Nobel Prize: Otto Stern Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a brief biography on the life and scientific work of Otto Stern, a physicist honored with the Nobel Prize in physics for his "development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton."
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about Thomas Hunt Morgan, the scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity." This website is organized...
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The Nobel Prize: Jean Paul Sartre Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
The official site of the Nobel Prize. Their excellent biography of Sartre with looks into his works and philosophy.
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The Nobel Prize: Chen Ning Yang Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
Official Nobel biography of Chen Ning Yang. Emphases on where and when, and on his scientific publications. Little description of his actual scientific work here.
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The Nobel Prize: Robert Hofstadter Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
Official Nobel Institute biography of Hofstadter. Very little personal information. Lots and lots of science work, description, etc.
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The Nobel Prize: Albert Einstein Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel Foundation provides this site of Albert Einstein. Includes biographical information about the scientist and other interesting sidebars, such as a video of George Bernard Shaw paying tribute to Einstein.
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The Nobel Prize: Wendell Stanley Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a brief Nobel E-Museum biography on Wendell Meredith Stanley, the scientist and co-recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Read about his education, as well as his contributions to various scientific studies through which...
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The Nobel Prize: Werner Karl Heisenberg Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides information on the life and scientific contributions of Werner Heisenburg, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "creation of quantum mechanics." Read the Prize Presentation Speech in which Professor H....
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The Nobel Prize: Hans Bethe Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Hans Bethe (1906-2005 CE), concentrating on his scientific research in nuclear physics.
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The Nobel Prize: Linus Pauling Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel Foundation provides a biography and image of Linus Pauling, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
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The Nobel Prize: Naguib Mahfouz Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel E-Museum offers a biography of Naguib Mahfouz, renowned Egyptian novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1988.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951

For Students 9th - 10th
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton won the Noble Prize for Physics in 1951. Some biographical information is provided for each man along with his banquet lecture and Nobel lecture.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901: William Conrad Rontgen

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1901, Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen won the Nobel Prize for Physics because of his work with the x-ray. The site includes a picture of Rontgen along with biographical information, his Nobel lecture, and other resources, such as illustrated...
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National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Alfred Nobel

For Students 9th - 10th
This site honors Alfred Nobel for his invention of dynamite. Content includes a very brief biography and a focus on the impact of dynamite on our culture.
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The Nobel Prize: Gao Xingjian Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
This Nobel Prize site offers a brief biographical sketch of the 2000 Nobel literature prize winner, plus a list of his works of works about him. Also provided are links to an interview with Xingjian, videos, a bibliography of his works,...
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The Nobel Prize: Jean Baptiste Perrin Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nobel Foundation provides a biography of the scientist who won 1926 Nobel Prize Physics, Jean Baptiste Perrin.