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  Nobel Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Although Nobel's will established the prizes, his plan was incomplete and, due to various other hurdles, it was five years before the Nobel Foundation could be established and the first prizes awarded in 1901.
Criticism was levied towards the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics, specifically the recognition of Roy Glauber and not George Sudarshan for the award.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nobel_prize   (2958 words)

  
 CNN - Nobel medicine prize goes to cell biologist Guenter Blobel - October 11, 1999
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (CNN) -- The Nobel Prize for Medicine went to Dr. Guenter Blobel of The Rockefeller University in New York Monday for pioneering research on the inner workings of the cell.
Winners of the Nobel Prize in physics and chemistry are to be announced Tuesday, followed by economics Wednesday and the peace prize Friday.
Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in medicine last year for discovering that the body uses nitric oxide gas to make blood vessels relax and widen -- a finding that helped lead to the development of Viagra and could also pay off in treatments for heart disease.
www.cnn.com /HEALTH/9910/11/nobel.medicine.03   (767 words)

  
 GoNorway - Nobel peace price
Nobel took a keen interest in social questions, and is known to have held radical views on many contemporary problems.
The Norwegian Nobel Institute was established in 1904, and moved into its present building in central Oslo, close to the royal palace, in 1905.
The principal duty of the Nobel Institute is to assist the Nobel Committee in the task of selecting the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and to organize the annual Nobel events in Oslo.
www.gonorway.no /norway/sidevisning.php?id=206   (1064 words)

  
 Nobel Watch Co.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
NOBEL� Watch Co. is a U. company that specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of mid and luxury-priced watches.
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 Beyond string theory introduction
In 1906 Thomson got the Nobel price for his discovery of the electrical unit of charge, as manifested in atoms.
A year later Michelson got the price for his construction of the interferometer, an ingenious apparatus that allows, amongst others, a precise measurement of the (constant) speed of light.
In 1918 Planck got the price for his successful heuristic of quantised energy packages, and Einstein got the price in 1921 for his explanation, on the basis of Planck's hypothesis, of the photo-electric effect.
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 Prof.Wangari Maathai wins PEACE NOBEL PRICE!
The Nobel laureate then turned to the corporate world: "Industry and global institutions must appreciate that ensuring economic justice, equity and ecological integrity are of greater value than profits at any cost," she said.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo that it had decided to award the prize to Maathai, 64, in recognition of her "contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace".
OSLO Wangari Maathai, a noted Kenyan environmental activist, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to bring power to women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.
www.ogiek.org /indepth/break-wang-nobel-pr.htm   (16055 words)

  
 The Norwegian Nobel Institute
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2003 to Shirin Ebadi for her efforts for democracy and human rights.
It is important to her that the dialogue between the different cultures and religions of the world should take as its point of departure their shared values.
It is a pleasure for the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize to a woman who is part of the Moslem world, and of whom that world can be proud - along with all who fight for human rights wherever they live.
www.nobel.no /eng_lau_announce2003.html   (280 words)

  
 Nobel Laureate Urges Global Tree-Planting Campaign to Support Kyoto
Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai speaks at a meeting called NPO summit in Tokyo February 20, 2005.
The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recipient is in Japan where she took part in a commemorative ceremony on Wednesday to mark the enforcement of the Kyoto Protocol to fight global warming.
Maathai, whom the Nobel committee honored last year for her spirited campaign to promote good governance and human rights in Kenya through community-based tree planting, said expanding the project would boost the treaty's chances of success.
www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0224-05.htm   (439 words)

  
 Nobel Peace Prize - Uncyclopedia
Often confused with the Nobel Price, the Nobel Peace Prize has been shown to cause cancer (the author of this research was awarded the prize.)
There is no Nobel maths prize though as Nobel's wife ran off with a mathamatician and Nobel damned the entire sub culture to a life of prizelessness.
The Nobel Peace Prize is the last piece that intergalactic space mutant Bono needs to complete his death ray that will result in all life in the universe ending.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize   (240 words)

  
 Nobelpreisträger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Nobel Laureates: The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious international award for special achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and the maintenance of peace.
The winners of the Physics and Chemistry awards are selected by the Swedish Academy of Sciences, the winners of the Physiology or Medicine prize by the Karolinska Medikokirugiska Institutet in Stockholm, the Literature laureates by the Royal Swedish Academy, and the winners of the Peace prize by a committee of the Norwegian Parliament (Storting).
A Nobel Prize for Economics was founded in 1969 by the Bank of Sweden and has since then been awarded by the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
www.aeiou.at /aeiou.encyclop.n/n772108_en.htm   (400 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iranian activist wins Nobel prize
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian campaigner for human rights, noted for her work in promoting the rights of women and children.
The Nobel committee emphasised that its choice should be seen as a statement about human rights.
The results of the annual award are shrouded in mystery until the final announcement, with even the names of nominees kept under wraps for 50 years to protect dissidents from possible reprisals.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3180302.stm   (691 words)

  
 DYNO NOBEL LIMITED (DXL) - ASX Listed Company Information Fact Sheet
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 The price of Nobel causes - Book Reviews - Books - Entertainment - theage.com.au
But because for most of us the Nobel experience seems as remote as jamming with the Rolling Stones or helping the Pope celebrate Mass in St Peter's Square, it is fascinating to step into a prizewinner's polished fl shoes.
There is, for example, a fixed protocol in the reception line at the official dinner: medical laureates and their spouses stand behind the chemists, but ahead of any literary types.
Yet when he does offer advice to aspiring Nobel laureates, having acknowledged that "'most of us have more chance of winning an Olympic medal", it is interesting to note that his tips could apply to just about any field of endeavour.
www.theage.com.au /news/book-reviews/the-price-of-nobel-causes/2005/10/15/1128796742775.html?oneclick=true   (1138 words)

  
 HFBoards - George W. Bush and Tony Blair Nominated for Nobel Price Award
An award to Bush and Blair would be a U-turn after the Nobel Committee awarded the 2002 prize to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter last October.
However, Geir Lundestad, the director of the Nobel Institute where the five-member committee meets, said Simonsen's proposal would have to wait for the 2004 award because the deadline for nominations for 2003 passed on February 1.
Nobel committees have frequently honoured the United Nations instead of unilateral action by member states.
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 Norway Info - Articles - The Nobel Peace Price
In addition, a Nobel memorial prize was established in 1968 -- The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
This is the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death and ceremonies are held on that date both in Stockholm and in Oslo.
The secretary of the committee and the director of the Nobel institute is professor D.Phil.
www.cyberclip.com /Katrine/NorwayInfo/Articles/NobelPeace.html   (2926 words)

  
 Gifts of Speech - Rigoberta Menchú Tum
This Nobel Prize represents a standard-bearer that encourages to continue denouncing the violation of the Human Rights, committed against the people in Guatemala, in America and in the world, and to perform a positive role in respect of the most pressing task in my country, i.e.
In fact, what they see in this Nobel Price is not only a reward and a recognition to a single person, but a starting point for hard struggle towards the achievement of those reivindications that remain to be complied with.
This Nobel Prize is a recognition to those who have been, and still are in most parts of the world, the most exploited of the exploited ones; the most discriminated of the discriminated ones, the most marginalized of the marginalized ones, but still they are the ones that produce life and riches.
gos.sbc.edu /m/menchunobel.html   (4082 words)

  
 Coins & Banknotes | Numisletters | Our Issues | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Nobel price in literature - 100 year
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson is the first Norwegian author receiving the Nobel Price in Literature, in 1903.
He is one of the greatest authors and we all remember him for writing the lyrics to the Norwegian national anthem.
The medal is a restrike from an issue in 1902, to his 75 years aniversary and the stam is special issued for the 100 years commemoration to the Nobel price.
www.coins-and-banknotes.com /obj.asp?M=8.S1=24.S2=0.O=962   (114 words)

  
 Demand, by David R. Henderson: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
The law of demand states that when the price of a good rises, the amount demanded falls, and when the price falls, the amount demanded rises.
Some of the modern evidence for the law of demand is from econometric studies which show that, all other things being equal, when the price of a good rises, the amount of it demanded decreases.
When the price of Toyota Tercels rises, all else being equal, demand for Tercels falls and demand for Nissan Sentras, a substitute, rises.
www.econlib.org /library/Enc/Demand.html   (987 words)

  
 Cape Town born Coetzee wins nobel prize
Nobel price for literature for Cape Town born
The announcement of JM Coetzee as this year Nobel Prize for Literature winner was greeted with excitement all over the world, and in South Africa, especially at the University of Cape Town where he taught.
JM Coetzee, born and bred in Cape Town, and former English professor at the University of Cape Town, is now resident in Australia and teaching at Chicago University.
www.come2capetown.com /newsletter/oct/the_city.htm   (459 words)

  
 Nobel Peace Prize for Kofi Annan
Already, the Nobel committee has harmed its reputation with numerous unworthy Literature prizes, which over the years have gone to such as the Stalinist hack poet Pablo Neruda, politically correct authors such as Toni Morrison and Gunter Grass, the anti-American extreme leftist Dario Fo, and the South African novelist Nadine Gordimer.
Nobel laureate and former South African President F.W. de Klerk praised Annan's "positive and constructive role in promoting peaceful solutions to conflicts around the world".
"The United Nations and Kofi Annan are winners of the Nobel prize for genocide against the Bosniaks (Muslims) of the Drina valley and the whole of Bosnia," the Mothers of Srebrenica and Drina Valley association of survivors said in a statement.
www.usasurvival.org /nobleprize.html   (1939 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Rumors of War (Nobel Prize!)
For President Bush (or anyone else) to have produced accomplishments worthy of Nobel Prize recognition after a mere eleven days in office would have been a truly astounding feat indeed.
In February 2002, however, reports began circulating that members of the Norwegian Nobel committee had let it slip that George W. Bush was among the persons (along with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani) being considered for the 2002 Peace Prize.
Bishop Gunnar Staalsett, a member of the secretive five-member Nobel committee which elects the winner, has spoken out against the U.S.-led and British-backed strikes on Afghanistan.
www.snopes2.com /rumors/nobel.htm   (259 words)

  
 Wangari Maathai wins the Nobel Peace Price (Norway - the official site in the Azerbaijani Republic)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 to Wangari Maathai for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
She will also be the first African from the vast area between South Africa and Egypt to be awarded the prize.
The price will be awarded on December 10th in Oslo.
www.norway.az /policy/humanitarian/nobel2004.htm   (197 words)

  
 CNN.com - Austrian novelist wins Nobel Prize - Oct 7, 2004
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Elfriede Jelinek, an Austrian novelist and playwright, has won the Nobel Prize in literature -- the first woman in eight years to be given the honor.
She is just the ninth female writer to win the Nobel Prize -- which carries with it a sum of $1.3 million -- since it was first handed out in 1901.
Winning the Nobel Prize in literature is one of the highest honors for a writer.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/10/07/nobel.literature/index.html   (568 words)

  
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German-born American physicist who shared one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989 with the German physicist Wolfgang Paul.
German physicist who shared one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989 with the German-born American physicist Hans G. Dehmelt.
American physicist who received one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989 for his development of a technique to induce atoms to shift from one specific energy level to another.
vinoazdravie.szm.sk /chemistry.htm   (675 words)

  
 199 nominated for Nobel Peace Prize - World News - MSNBC.com
The deadline is so strict that, in 1978, the committee wanted to include former President Jimmy Carter for the Nobel for his work on the Camp David peace agreement but couldn’t because he was not nominated in time.
The award, including $1.6 million, is always presented on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of its founder, Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel.
The peace prize is awarded in Oslo, and the other Nobel Prizes are presented in the Swedish capital, Stockholm.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7026061   (557 words)

  
 Leiden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For a time Leiden held the title "The Coldest Place on Earth": in a laboratory, because of the developments in cryogenics that have happened there.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1913 Nobel prize winner in physics) liquefied helium for the first time (1908), and later managed to reach a temperature of less than one degree above the absolute minimum.
The Leyden jar, a capacitor made from a glass jar, was invented here by Pieter van Musschenbroek in 1746.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leiden   (2040 words)

  
 Nobel Prize for Medicine in Mental Health Research
The Nobel Prize citation stated, “The discoveries of Arvid Carlsson have had great importance for the treatment of depression, which is one of our most common diseases.”
The Nobel Lectures (on-demand video of their lectures given on Friday, December 8, 2000 at Karolinska Institutet, Berzelius laboratoriet, Stockholm)
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www.namiscc.org /newsletters/November/Nobel.htm   (291 words)

  
 Price of Nobel glory tops $100, but it's not for U.S. Korean War GIs
The Norwegian Nobel Committee gave its vaunted Peace Prize in 1988 to blue-bereted UN peacekeepers who saw action beginning with the Suez Canal crisis in 1956 _ three years after an armistice established a cease-fire in the Korean War _ said Geir Lundestad, a historian and director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.
The Bergen og Hordaland UN-Veteran Association in southern Norway lobbied Nobel officials and the government in the 1990s for permission to issue a commemorative medal and certificates, as a way for individual peacekeepers to share in the honor.
The group never consulted with the Nobel office to determine whether the Nobel prize applied to Korean War veterans, he said, or consulted with the UN to see if the war was considered a UN peacekeeping mission.
www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/-price-nobel-glory-tops-100-but-its-not-/2006/05/27/1661216.htm   (1726 words)

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