Nobel Prizes And Laureates

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1943 - George de Hevesy
Sweden
November 22, 1983
George Charles de Hevesy (1885 – 1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist. He received Nobel Prize in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes in the metabolism of animals. He also co-discovered the element hafnium.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948 - Arne Tiselius
Sweden
November 22, 1983
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius (1902 – 1971) was a Swedish biochemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries on the complex nature of the serum proteins.

December 10 is Nobel Prize Day!

Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (1905-1961), a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, designed by Tunisian artist Hatem El Melli (1918-2003), printed by photogravure, and issued by Tunisia on October 24, 1961 for United Nations Day, Scott No. 399, plus a photograph of Dag Hammarskjöld. Note: Hammarskjöld posthumously received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961, having been nominated before his death.

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914 - Theodore Richards
Sweden
December 10, 1974
Theodore William Richards (1868 - 1928) was the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was recognized for his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1914 - Robert Bárány
Sweden
December 10, 1974
Robert Bárány (1876 – 1936) was an Austro-Hungarian otologist. He received the Nobel Prize for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 - Knut Hamsun
Sweden
November 18, 1980
Knut Hamsun (1859 – 1952) was a Norwegian author. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and exhibits variation in subject, perspective and environment. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories, plays, and essays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his 1917 masterpiece Markens Grøde (Growth of the Soil).

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1913 - Alfred Werner
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1913 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Sweden
December 10, 1973
Alfred Werner (1866 - 1919) was a Swiss chemist and a professor at the University of Zurich. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes. Werner developed the basis for modern coordination chemistry. He was the first inorganic chemist to win the Nobel prize.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853 - 1926) was a Dutch physicist. His research of material properties at extreme cryogenic temperatures led to the production of liquid helium in 1908 and the discovery of superconductivity in 1911.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1915 - Richard Willstätter
Sweden
December 10, 1975
Richard Martin Willstätter (1872 – 1942) was a German organic chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 - Tomas Tranströmer
Sweden
November 14, 2013
Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (1931 - 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the beauty of nature. His poetry has been translated into over 60 languages. Many composers and musicians have worked with his poems.
His notable work includes The Half-Finished Heaven (Den halvfärdiga himlen), For the Living and the Dead (För levande och döda), and The Sorrow Gondola (Sorgegondolen).

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 - Derek Walcott
Sweden
November 27, 1992
Derek Alton Walcott (1930 - ) is a Saint Lucian-Trinidadian poet and playwright. He is currently Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros, which many critics view as Walcott's major achievement. His best-known plays are Dream on Monkey Mountain, Ti-Jean and His Brothers, and Pantomime.

The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 - Niels Bohr
The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 - Louis de Broglie
The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 - Werner Heisenberg
The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 - Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Dirac
Sweden
Nobel Prize Winners Atomic Physics booklet
November 24, 1982

Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962) received the Nobel Prize for his contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory.
Louis de Broglie (1892 - 1987) received the Nobel Prize for his studies on the wave properties of matter which is the foundation of the theory of quantum mechanics.
Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976) received the Nobel Prize for his uncertainty principles and his contributions to quantum mechanics.
Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961) and Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984) received the Nobel Prize for their contribution to the early development of quantum mechanics.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 - William Faulkner
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1955 - Halldór Laxness
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1967 - Miguel Asturias
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968 - Yasunari Kawabata
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973 - Patrick White
Sweden
Nobel Prize Winners Literature booklet
November 21, 1985

William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897 – 1962) was an American writer. His notable works include The Sound and The Fury(1929), A Fable(1954), and The Reivers (1962).
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (1902 – 1998) was a twentieth-century Icelandic writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland.
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (1899 - 1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. He received the Nobel Prize for his literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America.
Yasunari Kawabata (1899 - 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer. His notable works include The Dancing Girl of Izu(1926), The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa(1930), Thousand Cranes(1952), and Beauty and Sadness (1964).
Patrick White (1912 - 1990) was an Australian writer who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for his psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature.

Nobel Peace Prize 1905 - Bertha von Suttner
Nobel Peace Prize 1935 - Carl von Ossietzky
Nobel Peace Prize 1960 - Albert Luthuli
Nobel Peace Prize 1964 - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel Peace Prize 1979 - Mother Teresa
Sweden
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
November 25, 1986
Baroness Bertha von Suttner (1843 – 1914) was a Czech-Austrian pacifist and novelist. She was a major influence in Alfred Nobel's decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will. She also became one of the leaders of the international peace movement.
Carl von Ossietzky (1889 – 1938) was a German journalist and political activist. He exposed the covert German re-armament and has been a constant voice against militarism and Nazism.
Albert John Luthuli (1898 – 1967), also known by his Zulu name Mvumbi, was a South African teacher, activist, and politician. Luthuli was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC) that led opposition to the white minority government in South Africa and the nonviolent struggle against apartheid.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was a Roman Catholic nun who devoted her life to serving the poor and destitute around the world. She spent many years in Calcutta, India where she founded the Missionaries of Charity.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1974 - Antony Hewish
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1974 - Martin Ryle
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 - Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 - William Fowler
Sweden
Nobel Prize Laureates Astrophysics booklet
November 25, 1987

Antony Hewish (1924 - ) is a British radio astronomer who developed radio aperture synthesis and its application to the discovery of pulsars.
Sir Martin Ryle (1918 – 1984) was an English astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources.
Arno Allan Penzias (1933 - ) and Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936 - ) are American physicists who co-discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped establish the Big Bang theory of cosmology.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 – 1995) was an Indian American astrophysicist. His mathematical theory of the physical processes has important application to the understanding of the structure and evolution of stars.
William Alfred Fowler (1911 – 1995) was an American nuclear physicist and astrophysicist. He formulated a widely accepted theory of element generation during stellar evolution.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1917 - Charles Barkla
Sweden
Nobel Prize Winners
November 17, 1977
Charles Glover Barkla (1877 – 1944) was a British physicist. He received the Nobel Prize for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays.