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The Nobel Prize: Jean Baptiste Perrin Biographical
The Nobel Foundation provides a biography of the scientist who won 1926 Nobel Prize Physics, Jean Baptiste Perrin.
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The Nobel Prize: Robert Koch and Tuberculosis
In 1905 scientist Robert Koch gave a famous lecture on his discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium. He demonstrated and explained his work, bringing his entire laboratory equipment and tissue samples for the audience to examine, and left...
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Read Works: Ig Nobel Winners
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about four Ig Nobel Prize winners, scientific achievements that are funny, but also interesting. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Finding Dulcinea: Mother Teresa, 1979 Winner of Nobel Peace Prize
Short biography of Mother Teresa with link to additional biographical data. Also includes links to information about other women who won the Nobel Prize.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992
This site from the Nobel eMuseum allows you to read about the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, Derek Walcott. This website is organized into the following sections: "Press Release," "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel...
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize 2000
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: The Nobel Peace Prize 1950
Learn about the 1950 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize through this website, which provides the prize "Presentation Speech," Ralph Bunche's (1904-1971 CE) Nobel Lecture entitled "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time," and a brief...
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize for 2016: Juan Manual Santos
The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. Santos worked ceaselessly to end a civil war that has endured for fifty years and affected millions of citizens. While the efforts for peace and its...
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The Nobel Prize: Maurice Wilkins Nobel Lecture
Download and read Maurice Wilkins Nobel Lecture "The molecular configuration of nucleic acids." This lecture, originally given December 11, 1961, is available in pdf format.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize 1930
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can learn about Lars Olof Nathan (Jonathan) Soderblom (1866-1931 CE), the 1930 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. This website is organized into the following sections: "Presentation Speech,"...
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners 1901 2011
A list of the Chemistry Nobel Prize Winners from 1901 to the present. Click on each name to find stats and featured links on each person.
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The Nobel Prize: Eric A. Cornell Biographical
Contains an involved autobiography, focusing on Dr. Cornell's development as a scientist.
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The Nobel Prize: Frank B. Kellogg Biographical
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: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1971
At this site from The Nobel Foundation, you can read about Pablo Neruda, the 1971 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. This website is organized into the following sections: "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel Lecture," "Nobel...
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The Nobel Prize: Linus Pauling Biographical
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: Gabriel Garcia Marques Biographical
This site from the Nobel e-Museum provides great information on the winner of the nobel prize for literature in 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The information includes a picture, a biography, his nobel lecture, banquet speech, and other...
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The Nobel Prize: T. S. Eliot Biographical
This is a biography of T. S. Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), winner of The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
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The Nobel Prize: Gao Xingjian Biographical
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: Wole Soyinka Biographical
Nobel E-Museum offers this biography of African author Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The Nobel Prize: Maurice Wilkins Biographical
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: Naguib Mahfouz Biographical
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 Literature 1938
This site from the Nobel eMuseum allows you to read about the 1938 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Pearl Buck (1892-1973 CE), who was recognized for "Her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her...
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Berkeley Lab: Nobel Prizes in Nuclear Science
Provides a list of Nobel Prize winners in the field of nuclear science that includes the discoveries of spontaneous radioactivity, radium, and the neutron.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951
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.