George Smoot
Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, George Smoot has been an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1974 and has been a physics professor at University of California-Berkeley since 1994. He lives in Berkeley, California. [... more]
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Quark et le jaguar (prix nobel de physique)
 Chronique amazon.fr: Prix Nobel de physique (en 1969) pour la théorie des "quarks", particules élémentaires constituant les nucléons qui composent eux-mêmes les noyaux des atomes, Murray Gell-Mann est aussi [... more]
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Thomas Mann
German essayist, cultural critic, and novelist, Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Among his most famous works are Buddenbrooks, published when he was just twenty-six, The Magic Mountain, and Doctor Faustus. [... more]
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Azadeh Moaveni
Azadeh Moaveni is the author of Lipstick Jihad and the co-author, with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, of Iran Awakening. She has lived and reported throughout the Middle East, and speaks both Farsi and Arabic fluently. As one of the few ... [... more]
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Anthony Calderbank
Three Novels of Ancient Egypt Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War From Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz: the three magnificent novels-published in an omnibus edition for the first time-that form an ancient-Egyptian counterpart to his ... [... more]
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Richard Lourie
In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the ... [... more]
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Wangari Maathai
In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people's environmental movement, ... [... more]
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Maureen Freely
Orhan Pamuk's first book since winning the Nobel Prize, Other Colors is a dazzling collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and the example of other writers. Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven ... [... more]
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Nobel Scientists
An excellent reference: This biographical encyclopedia will interest college-level libraries, providing a strong set of profiles of over four hundred scientists who've won the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, or medicine. Entries provide basic [... more]
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Ig Nobel Prizes
Science can be funny: This book brings together two areas of human endeavor that don't normally go together: science and humor. The Ig Nobel Awards (actually held every year at Harvard University) honor those achievements which "cannot or should not [... more]
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Gitanjali: A Collection of Indian Poems by the Nobel ...
ssghere is clearly mistaken: I strongly disagree with the close-minded views of ssghere from Berkeley California. He says first of all that the poems are written in free verse and they are not...they are in prose. Furthermore, Tagore does not make Any [... more]
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The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius Controversy and ...
Very Good Introduction: Now that the Nobel Prizes for 2002 have just been announced, there is no better time to take a real look at the history and background of the Prizes themselves. There are very few books written about this important subject for the [... more]
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