Nobel Foundation

One of the most famous women in physics back in the early 1900s was Marie Sklodowska. While she was in physics, Marie won two nobel prizes. Also, she discovered the elements Radium and Polonium. Marie had to conquer many hardships to get all these awards. Marie Sklodowska was born in Warshow, Portland on November 7, 1867. She was the youngest of five children, and that family was already very poor. Her mother was a poor schoolroom teacher that was named, Bronislawa Sklodowska. Her father was…

had worked and studied radioactivity and nuclear fission. Meitner’s way of working and studying led to the “radiochemical discovery” of nuclear fission. Her achievement was rewarded with a Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1944. Meitner is often used as an example of a scientific women who was “overlooked by the Nobel committee”. Lise Meitner demonstrates the arduous work she had to do in order to discover her accomplishment which in this case is the discoverment of nuclear fusion. Lise Meitner is an…

Gertrude Stein was a poet, play writer, novelist and art collector. She was born in the United States of America on February 3rd 1874 and died in France on July 27 1946. She was much known for her novel writing skills and quotes such as, 'we are always the same age inside'. She contributed in the authoring of the famous Lost Generation. The lost generation according to Gertrude Stein are specifically the ex-patriot writers who moved out of home land to Europe so as to go and practice literature.…

A gray cloud rolls off the edge of the stage, fizzling out as it spills into the crowded hall. The audience gasps in surprise and on-stage, Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips smiles as he continues to pour liquid nitrogen across the floor. Phillips, recipient of the Nobel prize in Physics in 1997 for his work cooling atoms with laser light and a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, stands in Bethel’s Benson Great Hall before a captivated audience. Phillips has worked as an…

In his Nobel Prize speech, William Faulkner said that it is the writer’s duty to write about “love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice” (par. 3) and that anything other than those “problems of the spirit” are not worth writing about. The ways he lived up to the standards he set were through the characters in his book The Unvanquished. The book takes place in the 1860’s-70’s centered around the maturation of a young boy named Bayard. His resilience, maturity, and basic…

In this essay I am going to discuss Gary Stanley Becker. He was born on December 2nd 1930 in Pottsville, Pensilvania and died on 3rd May 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a major economist that received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993 for his work in widening the field of microeconomic study to include a increased range of human actions including non trade behaviour . I will discuss briefly his life and how it contributed to his work. Additionally I will aim to discuss his three main…

These are people and animals that candles will never be blown out. These people are special because they standed up or protected the things and people they believe in and when someone disagreed with what they were doing or what they did they stayed true to themselves and continued what they were doing know if they were blown out (died or sent to jail) there candle will keep going for everyone else to hold. So, I think Aung San Suu Kyi, Malala Yousafzai, and Jeffrey Sachs should be inducted into…

There are tons of powerful women throughout history – ones that have successfully held political positions, advocated for civil rights and women’s rights, or had a profound effect on the outcome of discoveries. While their names may be familiar, there is often a lot more to these figures than just one fact. In honor of Women’s History Month, we gathered five women from our book WHO WINS?: 100 Historical Figures Go Head-to-Head and You Decide the Winner by Clay Swartz, Illustrated by Tom Booth…

make you Clever?” Link: www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20356613 Claim: The claim made in the article is that eating more chocolate could make people more smart and maybe even produce more Nobel Prize Winners. Correlational Evidence: Evidences shows there is a positive correlation with eating chocolate and the amount of Nobel laureates in each country. Possible Explanations: (i) Papers say that cocoa is good for you, so this could be why people are cleverer when they eat more chocolate. (ii) The…

Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen tells the life story of a 12th century nun blessed with visions from God. A gifted healer, composer, and writer, Hildegard von Bingen (Barbara Sukowa) worked to fulfill her visions and share her findings with the world. She also labored to improve the lives of the women under her care. Even with her faith and many talents, Hildegard is shown to possess the same flaws as all humans. Despite these faults, Hildegard worked to bridge the gaps between…