Nobel Prize

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…

BIOL 1010 ‐ Biotechnology and Society Assignment #1 The Carleton Prize for Biotechnology Robert W. Holley, H. Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg for winning the Nobel Prize in physiology or Medicine in 1968. They received this award for their interpretation of the genetic code, and its function in protein synthesis. Joseph Brillinger – 101012500 Khorana, Nirenberg and Holley won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their interpretation of the…

Writer's Duty Osvaldo Barragan October 12, 2015 On December 10, 1950, William Faulkner delivered his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech. Faulkner delivered the "writer's duty" for all the future writers to write only from the truth of the heart. His concern was for the young writers. He believed that a good writer has to avoid writing nonsense. He felt concerned about the new authors who expressed their writing to the young Americans with stories that talked "not of love but of lust,…

A powerful yet very emotional speech in the movie, A Beautiful Mind. The main character in this movie is John Nash. Nash is at the Nobel prize awards, giving a speech. The lady he stares at towards the end of his speech is his wife, Alicia Nash. The award was for one of his theory’s he had done about math. Even though he have won the award for his intelligence, he gave credit to his wife. First, the audience in the speech from the movie are all sitting in front of him. Everyone in the…

of A Rose for Emily and William Faulkner’s vision) William Faulkner most definitely may not be a household name, but he is an exquisite name and writer of short stories and in general, phenomenal fiction. Eventually, Faulkner went on to win the Nobel Prize for literature, but his beginnings are still rather intriguing. According to a biography of William Faulkner’s life titled William Faulkner published by Gale Research in Detroit in 1991, Faulkner has had mostly humble beginnings with a few…

people around the world to fight for civil rights. King is most known for his “I Have a Dream” speech, which he gave at Washington D.C in 1963. In fact, the speech was so influential it earned King a Nobel Peace Prize. Other works by King include “Beyond Vietnam,” “Give us a ballot” and his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech (Biography.com Editors 1). King’s purpose is to motivate people into taking action against injustice and inequality in legal systems. He particularly focuses on…

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…

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 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…

as all the killings and the misuse of the Islamic name. This is a reliable source because the author, Malala Yousafzai, is a primary source, seeing as she experienced mistreatment and injustice, as she states in her speech after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Just like Nasima, in document 1, Malala spoke up for herself and decided to let the world know the injustices she was going through as a girl living in the Middle East. Despite the support that women had in the fight for their rights, there…