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Topic: Nobel Prize laureates by university affiliation


  
  Resources on Women Mathematicians
EWM is an affiliation for women bound by a common interest in the position of women in mathematics.
Women in Math is an organization at the University of Maryland College Park dedicated to serving the needs of women mathematicians.
The primary goal of this project is to encourage scientific literacy, and to promote the public's awareness and appreciation of science and technology by humanizing the image of research science and scientists.
www.scottlan.edu /lriddle/women/resource.htm   (605 words)

  
  Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are prizes instituted by the will of Alfred Nobel, awarded to people (and also to organizations in the case of the Nobel Peace Prize) who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society.
The peace prize ceremony was held at the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 1905 until 1946, later at the Aula of the University of Oslo, and since 1990 at the Oslo City Hall.
For example, in 2002, a Prize was awarded to Koichi Tanaka and John Fenn for the development of mass spectrometry in protein chemistry, failing to recognise the achievements of Franz Hillenkamp and Michael Karas of the Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/n/no/nobel_prize.html   (2160 words)

  
 University of Arizona:
The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885, when Arizona was still a territory.
The University of Arizona was approved by the Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1885.
UA is a member of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, a consortium of institutions pursuing research in astronomy.
wikipedia.pavelreich.com /wiki/University_of_Arizona   (4078 words)

  
 Nobel Prize - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The prizes are awarded at formal ceremonies held annually in the Stockholm Concert Hall and the Oslo City Hall on December 10, the date that Alfred Nobel passed away.
The Nobel Peace Prize is given in Oslo, Norway, by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
A common legend states that Nobel decided against a prize in mathematics because a woman he proposed to (or his wife, or his mistress) rejected him or cheated on him with a famous mathematician, often claimed to be Gösta Mittag-Leffler.
www.voyager.in /Nobel_Prize   (1803 words)

  
 The Prize in Economics 1999 - Press Release
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1999
During the latter half of that decade, Mundell was among the intellectual leaders in the creative research environment at the University of Chicago.
After completing his undergraduate education at the University of British Columbia he began his postgraduate studies at University of Washington and continued it at M.I.T. and London School of Economics.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1999/press.html   (2292 words)

  
 E. Donnall Thomas - Autobiography
He grew up in frontier Texas and, with almost no formal schooling went to the University of Louisville, Kentucky, where he received his M. His first wife died of tuberculosis, and I was the only child of his second wife.
In 1955, at the invitation of Dr. Joseph Ferrebee I went to the Mary Imogene Basset Hospital in Cooperstown, N. Y., an affiliate of Columbia University.
He envisioned the affiliation of all the relevant institutions in the area with the School of Medicine in order to create the critical mass necessary for academic excellence.
nobelprize.org /medicine/laureates/1990/thomas-autobio.html   (1359 words)

  
 Robert W. Holley - Biography
Graduate work was at Cornell University, where the Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry, with Professor Alfred T. Blomquist, was awarded in 1947.
He rejoined the faculty of Cornell University full time in 1964 as Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and was Chairman of the Department from 1965 to 1966.
In 1968, though maintaining an affiliation with Cornell University, he joined the permanent staff of the Salk Institute, where he is a Resident Fellow and an American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1968/holley-bio.html   (634 words)

  
 Kurt Wüthrich - Autobiography
Over the years this also included visiting faculty appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, RIKEN in Tokyo, Japan, and the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Robert Huber (Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1988) after a seminar in Munich on May 14, 1984.
By 1990, a collaboration with Professor Walter Gehring of the Biocenter at the University of Basel yielded structure determinations of the Antennapedia homeodomain and its complex with the operator DNA.
nobelprize.org /chemistry/laureates/2002/wuthrich-autobio.html   (3934 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Nobel laureates by university affiliation
There has been controversy surrounding the question of which institution was key to the contribution for which each respective laureate was honored.
Each institution practices different methods for counting affiliates, from extremely generous counting to extremely conservative counting.
The present list only speaks of affiliation and indicates how the laureate was or is related to the respective institution; it does not clarify where the honored work was completed.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Nobel_Prize_laureates_by_university_affiliation   (128 words)

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