Nobel Foundation

J.J Thomson was born in Cheetham Hill, a suburban area in Manchester, England on December 18, 1856. Thomson was a Nobel Prize winning physicist with his research that helped discover the electrons of an atom. J.J Thomson full name was Joseph John Thomson, He was an English physicist and mathematician. Joseph Thomson was considered to be a prodigy at his time, becoming the first to be 14 and attending college. Joseph Thomson’s father was a book seller who intended Thomson to become an engineer.…

University of Pisa in 1922. Following his graduation from the University of Pisa, Fermi was awarded a scholarship from the government to work with other physics professors, and would later become a professor himself. Several years later, Fermi won the nobel prize in 1938, and immediately after receiving the prize, he was forced to flee to the United States. His situation was remarkably similar to those of Einstein and Bohr, although he was such an accomplished scientist, he was forced to flee…

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” (BrainyQuote, 2014). Winston Churchill was an inspirational leader in politics who left a long lasting legacy, he made decisions that would impact the modern world. Churchill was deeply involved in the British Empire’s government. He was one of the most powerful people in Great Britain, holding many major roles from the beginning of his career to the end. Churchill also had other…

born November 20, 1927 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Graduated from Wooster, Ohio in 1950 and earned her bachelor's degree. In 1952, Martha used a kitchen blender to help prove DNA is the molecule that carries genetic information. This provided a foundation of molecular biology and inspired Dr. Watson to develop the double helix bond model of DNA. In 1953, Martha left college to work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. In 1964, she went back to college at Southern California…

Hodkgin the same year. Dorothy died on July 29, 1994 in Ilmington, United Kingdom Life Achievements Dorothy Hodgkin won the nobel prize in chemistry in 1964 for her use of X-ray techniques of to determine the structures of important biochemical substances. She was the third woman to win a nobel prize. Second woman to receive the Order of Merit, a royal order that recognizes distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion…

He won numerous awards and medals for the great things he has done for humanity. Elie was rewarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his testimony and being “a messenger for mankind” (The Nobel Peace Prize for 1986). He was also awarded many other prestigious awards such as the Ingram Merrill award, the Medal of Liberty, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Star of Romania, National Humanities…

Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech and the Dalai Lama’s Nobel lecture are both important speeches that share many parallel underlying concepts. The speeches both touch on the themes of nonviolence, and inter-connectivity. Both speeches were delivered by individuals who are seen as paragons of peace in modern times, although, at the time Dr. King’s speech was made he was antagonized and portrayed as the complete opposite. Furthermore, both speeches were given by important cultural…

life in Al-Jamalliyya provided him with the needed background, framework and mood for the events of his large cast of fictional characters. Naguib Mahfouz as a novelist, is the most well-known and renowned Arab writer in the West. He received the Nobel Prize for…

lived as an epic hero with extraordinary selflessness. She embodies the characteristics of an epic hero by manifesting a nobel birth, earning national heroism, and expressing cable of great strength and courage. Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, possess a Noble Birth. Possessing this advantage contributes to her epic hero identity, as well as supports the structure and foundation in the novice stages of her journey. Diana came up of age amongst an aristocratic upbringing: “British royalty…

University of Helsinki in the 1960s. His family belongs to the Swedish-speaking minority. Torvalds was named after Linus Pauling, the Nobel Prize–winning American chemist, although in the book Rebel Code Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Torvalds is quoted as saying, "I think I was named equally for Linus the Peanuts cartoon character", noting that this makes him half "Nobel Prize–winning chemist" and half "blanket-carrying cartoon character"…