medicineand chemistry (in addition to prizes for peace, literature and, since 1969, economic research). The MacArthur Fellowship was founded in 1981, and unlike the Nobel Prizes, is granted as an investment into an individual’s potential....
With Nearly 3 Nobel Prizes per Million, Switzerland Has the Highest Number of Nobel Laureates per CapitaKumar, Ruchi
In 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving his fortune –$270 million as of 2024– to a series of prizes for those who achieve something extraordinary (for the benefit of mankind) in the fields of chemistry, physics, medicine, literature, and peace. In 1968, Sweden’...
After receiving his bachelor of science degree in 1921, Dirac continued his studies at Bristol University until 1923. He then proceeded to St John's College at Cambridge, where he received his PhD degree in mathematics in 1926. He did not like the field of electrical engineering per se; ...
She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes, and the first female professor at the University of Paris. She was born MariaSkłodowskain Warsaw (then Vistula Country, Russian Empire; now Poland) and lived there until she was 24. In 1891...
year the respective Nobel Committees send individual invitations to thousands of members of academies, university professors, scientists from numerous countries, previous Nobel Laureates, members of parliamentary assemblies and others, asking them to submit candidates for the Nobel Prizes for the coming ...
Extended time lags between the publication of a pioneering work and the complete evaluation of its impact are not uncommon in the field of economics, where the “waiting period” for a Nobel Prize has been longer than in any other discipline where Nobel Prizes are awarded.Footnote 1 The curren...
United States women scientists Zuckerman has made such a statistics Professor: Nobel prizes established by the first 25 years, only 41% per cent in the number of collaborative research awards, and the second 25 years 65%, and the third 25 years 79% ...
Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded annually to those who have made strange scientific achievements.Ten prizes are given to people who have done remarkably goofy(可笑的)things-some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise. The prizes are presented at a gala(欢庆的)ceremony in Harvard University’s Sande...
In your editorial "Rip up the rule book" (November 2008 p15) you suggest that the Nobel Prize for Physics should, if necessary, be awarded to more than its current limit of three people per year, citing the unfairness of some recent awards in excluding those you perceive as worthy of rec...