She was the first African woman and the first environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize (2004). She was also the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree [source: NobelPrize.org]. While serving on the National Council of Women in 1976, Maathai introduced her ...
3.The Grapes of Wrath (愤怒的葡萄) ) is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction shortly after its publication.It is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due ...
From the start, however, anthropologists and others who actually studied commons objected to Hardin’s fabricated thesis; indeed, Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize in economics for explaining the longevity of commons. Eventually, Hardin modified his stance. He acknowledged that overuse is not due to...
Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012.Mo,who was born in 1955 into a farmer’s family in Gaomi County in Shandong Province, is the first Chinese national to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his early years, life was not easy and he experienced hunger. Th...
Dr. Pierre Kory, MD, MPA, a critical care doctor, wrote the book,The War on Ivermectin,about the anti-parasitic drug that won the Nobel Prize. Ivermectin is described in a new 12-minute mini-documentary as being safe, effective and cheap. Ivermectin was slandered during the COVID pandemic...
The robot’s designers chose Einstein, the Nobel Prize winner, because he was one of the greatest scientists of all time. They also chose Einstein because his face is very well known and he appear ‘loveable’. Dr. Hanson, who designed the robot, explained that it was important to develop...
Americans Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday, for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch, revelations that could lead to new ways of treating pain or even heart disease. Credit: Noah Berger/University of California San Franc...
Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012.Mo,who was born in 1955 into a farmer’s family in Gaomi County in Shandong Province, is the first Chinese national to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his early years, life was not easy and he experienced hunger. Th...
The world was ecstatic. Peace between Israel and the Palestinians suddenly took on a new possibility. The Nobel Committee awarded the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Yasser Arafat. They were seen as the peacemakers of a new reality in the Middle East. As ...
Naming Schools after Nobel Laureates Abdus Salam 1926-1996 TheWashington Postrecently rana story about the late Abdus Salam, a physicist who won the Nobel Prize almost 40 years ago. The piece concerns the politics of naming a building at a Pakistani university in honour of a man from a religi...