Nobel Foundation

Creativity has been with the human race since the beginning of time, from designing complex infrastructures, to developing the first rocket to ever reach outer space.Creativity has lead to many of the most influential practices and ideas, and has inspired countless of other individual to think creatively. Although creativity may still be present today, it continues to fight a battle of extinction where creativity is bound to lose. While some scholars believe that creativity flourishes in society…

In Elie Wiesel's Biography, The Nobel Foundation writes about how Elie Wiesel helped those struggling with persecution because of their race or religion. During World War II, he, with his family and other Jews from the area, were deported to the German concentration and extermination camps, where his parents and little sister perished (Elie para 1). After this happened, he published his first book, La Nuit, a memoir of his experiences in the concentration camps (Elie para 2). Elie Wiesel spoke…

In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his achievements and support in the communities effected by the Holocaust. He was also a part of establishing the U.S. Holocaust museum. He served as a chairman for the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust which will be later re-named as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. He has had many achievements and they are all astounding but these are just a few. One of Elie’s biggest achievements is the Elie Wiesel foundation for humanity. He opened…

James Chadwick was born October 20th, 1891 in Bollington, United Kingdom. His parents were John Chadwick and Anne Mary Knowles. He attended Manchester High School and Manchester University (James Chadwick – Biographical, Nobelprize.org). While he was at Manchester University he worked on a research project in Earnest Ruthford’s laboratory. Chadwick finished his project successfully and graduated with first class honors in physics in 1911. He continued to work in Earnest’s laboratory until in…

The Nobel Foundation awards the annual Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine to three individuals. Their outstanding discoveries are looked upon as a cure to benefit mankind. One of this year’s Nobel Prize recipients is Youyou Tu. Tu is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, medical scientist, and educator that found the cure for malaria. Her past researches has won awards on her hopes to attend the Chinese Academy of Science. According to the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, malaria is…

voter registration in the 1992 presidential campaign seemingly paved a way for him to follow his footsteps. Charity In 2014, Barack and Michelle donated 15% of their income to 33 different charities. The largest donation went to the Fisher House Foundation, an organization that operates comfort homes, where people use them at no cost as their loved one is receiving treatment. They also donated $5,000 to Sidwell Friends, the private school where their daughters attend. They gave $1,500 to a…

1970s he protested the South African apartheid, then in 1980 he delivered food to Colombians. Because of his work for human rights he received the Nobel prize award in 1986, the congressional gold medal in 1985, and the presidential medal of freedom. The same year Wiesel received his Nobel peace prize Wiesel and his wife founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. The foundation’s mission statement is "to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice through international dialogue and…

South America- Nelson Mandela was all of this and more. He spent his entire adult life striving for equal opportunity for every race, religion, and gender inhabiting his homeland. Mr. Mandela has many events in his life that are significant and a Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 to represent his achievements. In 1960 Mandela, a strong member of the African National Congress(ANC), was banned when he attempted to use military ideas in protests. Previous to the banning, a peaceful protest was disturbed…

Surviving the Unsurvivable “Having survived by chance, I was duty-bound to give meaning to my survival.” Eliezer Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor, political activist, and nobel peace prize recipient and he has impacted our country in numerous ways, Throughout Elie Wiesel’s life he wrote many books about The Holocaust and how it has impacted his life. Elie Wiesel has given America an inside look into The Holocaust and helped show how the past is not just the past and it could still affect people…

“Barbara McClintock was born June 16, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut, she was one of four children of Thomas Henry McClintock and Sara Handy McClintock. Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1908. After she moved she graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1919. Barbara did extremely well in school and ended up earning her B.S. and M.S. degrees in botany at Cornell University, and received her Ph.D. in the same subject at Cornell in 1927. Although women were not always permitted to major…