Nobel Foundation

Carlo Campanini Ms. Widmer English 28 October 2016 Inspirational Figure Essay Throughout the course of history, there have been many inspirational figures that have helped shape the world. One of those figures is former South African president and civil rights activist, Nelson Mandela. In a time in South Africa known as apartheid, literally meaning separateness, which was a legislatively backed system of racial segregation in South Africa, very similar to the segregation in the United States in…

practical research etc , but in 1971 in the United Kingdom engineer Sir Godrey Hounsfield and Africa-born physicist Alan Cormack invented the first commercially viable CT scanner in the world. Interesting fact is that they never actually met until their Nobel peace prizes were awarded to them. The very scanner took about 2 hours to produce 1 slice, but nowadays 4 slices can be produced in less than 1 second due to the amazing improvements in speed, quality, technology and comfort. Through the…

Ivan Pavlov: Founder of Conditioned Reflexes Background On September 14, 1849, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born in Ryazan, Russia. Son of Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov and Varvara Ivanovna Uspenskaya, Ivan was the oldest of eleven siblings in his religious household. His father, Peter, was a village priest and his mother, Varvara, was a housewife. Ivan went to a church school where he studied theology until his interests pursued him to study scientific pursuit. As a young boy, his biggest…

find out the structure of the DNA molecule. They needed how the DNA transmitted information from parents to daughter cells. They failed their first attempt but their second attempt was successful that they were celebrated for their hard work by a Nobel Price. From their success they then constructed the double helix strand model with all the nitrogenous bases…

The poem Beowulf by Seamus heaney portrays the heroic events that helped mold the nobel persona of Beowulf, but on the other hand the novel Grendel by John Gardner reveals a perspective that the poem Beowulf ______. In the poem Beowulf Grendel is seen as a killing machine, while in the novel Grendel, Grendel is portrayed as a lonely and curious outcast. The purpose of the poem is to tell the tale of the heroic man Beowulf, but the purpose of the novel is to tell the story from Grendel’s…

Elie Wiesel was born on Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928. He grew up with his three sisters, his mom, and his dad being taught all about Jewish religion. He lived here 15 years of his life. At the age of 15, when World War II was beginning, he and his entire family were raptured and taken to a concentration camp in Auschwitz. He lived many years in this concentration; he lived in horrible and inhumane conditions. In this camp, only him, his dad and his two older sister…

Women in History All throughout history, women have changed the way one may think or treat others. Many of these women risked their own life to make others better. Even if these women had their own personal problems, they would put them aside to make others problems shrink. Many of these women have risked everything they had to help others. Mother Teresa, Dorothea Dix, and Irena Sendler are just a few examples of world changing women from our past. Mother Teresa is just one prime examples of…

I. Introduction Buddhism is a religion that is constructed out of multiple levels of diversity and complexity that has transcending concepts and ideas outside of the norms of other religions in comparison. The ideas that build Buddhism help it to achieve this philosophical subtext that causes it to differentiate itself from the average ideas of religion. II. A Brief Synopsis of Buddhism As mentioned previously, Buddhism is a dynamic and complex system of spiritual development that transcends…

I-presentation of NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA 1-Birth and death Rolihlahla Mandela was born on July 18th, 1918 in the village from Mvezo, at the edge of the Mbashe river with about fifty kilometers of the town of Mthatha, capital of Transkei, in the province of current Cape-Eastern in South Africa. Its first name, Rolihlahla means: “to remove a branch of a tree” or, more familiarly “trouble maker.” Mandela is resulting from a royal family Thembu of the Xhosa ethnos group which reigns on part of…

major and most important poets of the 20th century. He lived and was raised in Northern Ireland, for many years he later lived in Dublin. Having many widely used anthologies edited by him as the author of more than 20 volumes of poetry, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and taught at Harvard and Oxford University. Chapter One: Early Life On April 13, 1939 in Castledawson, County Derry, in Northern Ireland Seamus Heaney was born. He was born as the eldest child of the family to Patrick…