Nobel Prize n. Any of the six international prizes awarded annually by the Nobel Foundation for outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and economics and for the promotion of world peace. ...
IG NOBEL PRIZE - Satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research, its stated aim being to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which...
Sharif University is known for its large number of alumni who join the academic world.Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields medal (the ‘Nobel Prize’ of mathematics), is an alumni of Sharif University. Other notable alumni from SUT:Wikipedia | SUT | Notable alumni Further read:T...
“Chevreuse” byPatrick Modiano(+): this is the first book I have read by the French author who was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014. This novel follows the character of Jean Bosmans, a writer that goes back to a house he lived in decades before, rememering addresses,...
Here is a list of the winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize in the past 10 years following the announcement of the 2019 award on Monday:
In 2014, the Nobel prize in physics was awarded to the people who developed blue LEDs. Some of these people were trained as physicists, some weren’t: Wikipedia describes them as engineers. At the time,I argued that this was fine, because these people were doing “something physicists are ...
Perl received the Nobel Prize in 1995 [18]. In 1977, a narrow resonance observed at Fermilab close to Chicago revealed the existence of a fifth species of quarks, called the b-, beauty- or bottom-quark [19]. This immediately opened the quest for the existence of the b-quark’s double...
I recommend it, as well as The Nobel Prize, Krotkov’s similar mediation of the experiences of Boris Pasternak following the international acclaim of Doctor Zhivago. The Red Monarch: Scenes from the Life of Stalin, by Yuri Krotkov New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979 Categories Short ...
A page on the official website the Nobel prize still defends the prize awarded to Moniz. It uncritically accepts Freeman’s statistical analysis of outcomes, e.g., 2% of patients became worse after the surgery. … Wikipedia reports that 60% of US lobotomy patients were women. Later in the...
1.(Biography)David. born 1938, US molecular biologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1975) for his discovery of reverse transcriptase 2.(Biography)Lord. SeeCalvert1 Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994...