John Bannister Goodenough (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ d ɪ n ʌ f / GUUD-in-uf; born July 25, 1922) is an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry.He is a professor of Mechanical, Materials Science, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.He is widely credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery, for ...

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (Swedish: [ˈtʰǔːmas ˈjœ̂sːta ˈtrâːnˌstrœmːɛr]; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of ...

Svante August Arrhenius (né le 19 février 1859 au château de Vik (en), près d'Uppsala et mort le 2 octobre 1927 à Stockholm) est un chimiste suédois, pionnier dans de nombreux domaines.Il reçoit le prix Nobel de chimie en 1903 [1].. Il est notamment connu pour avoir formulé en 1889 la loi d'Arrhenius qui décrit la variation de la vitesse d'une réaction chimique en fonction de la ...

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award.

“In writing, no choice is self-evident. But those who, as immigrants, no longer speak their parents’ language, and those who, as class defectors, no longer have quite the same language, think and express themselves with other words, face additional hurdles.

George Charles de Hevesy (born György Bischitz; Hungarian: Hevesy György Károly; German: Georg Karl von Hevesy; 1 August 1885 – 5 July 1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals.

Nelly Sachs (German pronunciation: [ˈnɛliː zaks] (); 10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German-Swedish poet and playwright.Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews.Her best-known play is Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels (1950); other …

The Karolinska Institute (KI; Swedish: Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is consistently ranked amongst the world's best medical schools, ranking 6th worldwide for medicine in 2021. The Nobel Assembly at the …

Career Beauty Queen. She was crowned Miss World 2005 on 10 December 2005, in the Beauty Crown Theatre located in the Chinese beach city of Sanya, by the reigning beauty queen, 2004's Miss Peru Maju Mantilla.. Mexico (Dafne Molina Lona) and Puerto Rico (Ingrid Marie Rivera) were the first and second runners up.Other contestants who made it into the final six were Miss Italy …

La médaille Copley est une récompense dans le domaine des sciences. C'est la médaille la plus prestigieuse attribuée par la Royal Society (de Londres). C'est aussi la plus ancienne : elle a été décernée pour la première fois en 1731.. Cette médaille a été créée après un don de 100 £ en 1709 à la Royal Society par Sir Godfrey Copley, un propriétaire terrien aisé de Doncaster ...

This list of Nobel laureates by university affiliation shows the university affiliations of individual winners of the Nobel Prize since 1901 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences since 1969. The affiliations are those at the time of the Nobel Prize announcement. Different universities adopt different criteria—from generous to conservative—for claiming Nobel affiliates, which ...

The Francis Crick Institute (formerly the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation) is a biomedical research centre in London, which was established in 2010 and opened in 2016. The institute is a partnership between Cancer Research UK, Imperial College London, King's College London (KCL), the Medical Research Council, University College London (UCL) and the …

Prize. Each prize is awarded by a separate committee; the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics; the Karolinska Institute awards the Prize in Physiology or Medicine; and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Prize in Peace. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award that has varied throughout …

Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., AC, CBE, FRS, FAA (7 September 1917 – 8 December 2013) was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales. Cornforth investigated enzymes that catalyse changes in organic compounds, …