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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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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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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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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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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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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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, was an English novelist, short-story writer, and poet. His sweeping tales of adventure, including Kim, Captains Courageous, and The jungle Book, won him wide ... [... more]
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Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), one of the most renowned poets of the twentieth century, was born in Parral, Chile. He shared the World Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in ... [... more]
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Nobel Prize: the First 100 Years
Author: Levinovitz Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 001.44 EAN: 9789810246655 Edition: 1 ISBN: 981024665X Number Of Pages: 248 Publication Date: 2001-06-15 [... more]
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Nobel Prize: the First 100 Years
Author: Levinovitz Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 001.44 EAN: 9789810246648 Edition: 1 ISBN: 9810246641 Number Of Pages: 248 Publication Date: 2001-06-15 [... more]
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The Nobel Chronicles: A Handbook of Nobel Prizes in ...
Author: Tonse N. K. Raju Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 011 EAN: 9780759659049 ISBN: 0759659044 Number Of Pages: 540 Publication Date: 2002-01-24 [... more]
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A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients: Chemistry, Physics, ...
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 509.22 EAN: 9780824708764 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0824708768 Number Of Pages: 300 Publication Date: 2003-03-13 [... more]
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