Tag: nobel
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October 13, 2008 11:35 AM EDT --
Economist Paul Krugman was awarded the Nobel prize for Economics today. Krugman is a left wing author and columnist as well, who has not been kind to the Bush administration, and who warned us of impending . . . more
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October 09, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
UPDATE : Rumor around The Swedish Academy is that the nomination of Le Clézio was (gasp!) leaked ahead of Thursday's planned announcement I read the Reuters article twice to try to figure out what . . . more
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December 08, 2007 10:46 AM EST --
http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,331488257-114241,00.html
A hunger for books
Last night Doris Lessing, aged 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech she recalls . . . more
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October 26, 2007 04:04 PM EDT --
James D. Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA, announced his retirement Thursday after controversy erupted over comments he made suggesting that black people are . . . more
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March 10, 2007 04:58 PM EST --
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)
Hemingway, who took his own life in 1961, knew his share of both intelligent . . . more
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December 11, 2007 02:40 PM EST --
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Monday to former Vice President Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their work to help combat global warming. . . . more
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May 13, 2008 01:09 AM EDT --
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."
Andre Gide
French writer
Nobel prize for literature (1947)
1869 - 1951
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May 16, 2008 12:34 AM EDT --
" The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous . . . more
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October 11, 2007 09:07 AM EDT --
In what came as a surprise to many information markets the Swedish Academy has awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature to British author Doris Lessing. The Academy called Lessing "an epicist of . . . more
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May 12, 2008 07:49 AM EDT --
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever . . . more
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October 12, 2007 06:50 AM EDT --
Al Gore and the two thousand scientists in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will share this year's Nobel Peace prize for their work in publicizing the threat posed to humanity's . . . more
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October 12, 2007 09:12 AM EDT --
I feel bad for W.
Al Gore wins this big thing, and I thought to myself, "What does W. get?"
Then I had a brilliant idea: Perhaps The Nobel Foundation can create a prize for W. too!
You see, . . . more
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September 08, 2006 10:52 AM EDT --
Introduction
It is not possible to represent the Sixties completely in a collage, so I have merely tried to be representative.
Photos
This 1964 picture of Linus Pauling at the beach . . . more
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May 14, 2007 07:34 PM EDT --
I've always loved the poetry of Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean poet, diplomat, politician, and 1971 Nobel Laureate in Literature. His Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair are a classic, and . . . more
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October 18, 2007 07:52 PM EDT --
On Oct. 11, the Swedish Academy announced that Doris Lessing (87) had won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Most bloggers reacted to the news by recounting meetings they have had with Lessing and by discussing . . . more
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May 15, 2008 12:47 AM EDT --
"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf."
Albert Schweitzer . . . more
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August 04, 2008 08:06 AM EDT --
The New York Times reported in an article this day, via an article by Michael T Kaufman, that Mr. Aleksandr Solzenitsyn passed away late Sunday, at age eighty-nine. He suffered a heart ailment, and . . . more
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October 09, 2007 01:37 PM EDT --
10/09/07
"Alfred Nobel was a dynamite manufacturer when his brother died and a newspaper mistakenly printed Alfred's obituary. The newspaper called him Merchant of Death, and that changed Alfred's . . . more
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October 10, 2007 10:49 AM EDT --
That's right ladies and gentleman, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Gerhard Ertl from Germany for his work with chemical reactions with solid surfaces. For those of you that aren't . . . more
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September 18, 2008 09:43 PM EDT --
Who was Jane Addams?
Well, for one thing she was the first American woman to win the Nobel prize.
She was a feminist and a pioneer and innovator in the field of social work (before the . . . more
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