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Nobel Prize Winners
Noble prize winners are chosen based on their contribution in the advancement of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The prize given is approximately US$1 million, and is awarded by a committee of five people selected by the Norwegian Parliament.
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What are the 6 catogories in which Nobel Prizes are awarded each year?
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i dont know all but there is one in peace and one in science and i know theres non in mathematics bcuz the guy that made nobel prizes had his wife stolen from a mathematician or something like that.
Who won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945?
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Ernst Boris Chain won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945.
In what year did octavio paz win the nobel prize for lititure?
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Octavio Paz Lozano is best known as a Mexican writer and diplomatic poet that lived from 1914 until 1998. In 1931 he published his first collection of poems. However, he did not receive awards for his work until 1967. He did win the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1981 and the Nobel Literature Prize in 1990 for his work.
Who won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988?
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Cesar Milstein won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984.
How much money for the Booker prize?
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The Booker Prize is a monetary award given to the best English-language novel published by a British, Irish or Commonwealth author. It was first established by the Booker McConnell Company. In 2002, the Man Group investment company picked up sponsorship of the prize and its name was changed to the Man Booker Prize.
Some famous winners of the prize include V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Iris Murdoch, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Keneally, Kingsley Amis, Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood.
Famous scientists who won 2 Nobel Prizes?
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For physics, the only physicist that won 2 Nobel prizes is John Bardeen in 1956 and 1972. Both awards were presented to him to honor his work on transistors and superconductivity respectively.
Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry in 1903 and 1911 respectively.
Linus Pauling won the Nobel Prize but only one of the prizes was in Physics. The other was the peace prize.
Frederick Sanger received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1958 and 1980.
Source: Nobelprize.org
How many Irishmen have won the Nobel prize?
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Chemistry
Sir William Ramsay, 1904 - discovery of the noble gases.
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd of Trumpington, 1957- research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes.
Economics
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees, 1996 - papers on economic models.
Peace
Arthur Henderson, 1934 - worked with the World League of Peace and chaired the Geneva Disarmament Conference.
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, 1949 - for advocating a world food policy based on human needs rather than trade interests.
Physics
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, 1927 - for his invention of the cloud chamber.
Physiology/Medicine
John J R MacLeod, 1928 - one of the co-discoverers of insulin.
Sir Alexander Fleming, 1945 - discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mold Penicillium notatum in 1928.
Sir James Black, 1988 - for work leading to the development of beta blockers propranolol and cimetidine for the treatment of heart disease and stomach ulcers respectively.
Why did Derek Walcott win The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992?
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 was awarded to V. S. Naipaul for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.
What Nobel Prize did Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin win and when was it awarded?
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.
Who won both the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes and once worked as a maintenance man?
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N. Scott Momaday won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his book, House Made of Dawn.
Why did Albert John Lutuli win The Nobel Peace Prize in 1960?
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For his efforts in ending apartheid in south africa
Who is the first women Nobel prize winner in India?
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
How does Wiesel create ethos in his Nobel peace prize acceptance speech?
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He recounts personal memories of his deportation to the concentration camp
Australian Nobel Prize winners?
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The 2012 winners of the Nobel Prizes were:
Physics: Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland
Chemistry: Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka
Physiology or Medicine: Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka
Literature: Mo Yan
Peace: European Union (EU)
Economics: Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley
What Chilean poet won the 1971 Nobel prize in literature?
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.
Who won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950?
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Otto Loewi won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936.
When did Rabindranath Tagore get the noble prize?
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Tagore was awarded with Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913
What Nobel Prize did Alfred Kastler win and when was it awarded?
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he won a nobel prize because he discovered that bacilli caused the disease of anthrax, bacilli is microscopic rods and threads <- so look out for that if your reasearching him(:
