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2009 Norman Borlaug, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, dies
2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, writer, won Nobel Prize, 1970, wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago', exiled in 1974, dies at 89 2005 Mohamed ElBaradei received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the IAEA 2001 "Herbert A. Simon, Ph.D", economist, "Nobel Prize winner for economics, 1978", dies at 84 1999 "Glen Seaborg, Ph.D", chemist, won a Nobel for discovering plutonium and other elements, dies at 86 1998 Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84 1998 Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95 1998 Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79 1997 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo 1997 Mother Teresa, philanthropist, Nobel (1979), No Greater Love, dies of cardiac arrest at 87 1997 George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina 1996 Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99 1995 Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1995 Robert E. Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics 1995 Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86 1995 William A Fowler, U.S. nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83 1995 Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91 1995 Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92 1994 Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat 1994 Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres 1994 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe 1994 Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell 1994 Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82 1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93 1994 Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89 1994 Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, chemist (B-12, Nobel 1964), dies at 78 1994 Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (Plan of Labor, Nobel 1969), dies at 91 1993 Professor Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80 1993 Philip P Cohen, Doctor (Nobel), dies at 85 1993 Nelson Mandela and South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1993 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis and Michael Smith 1993 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor 1993 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison 1993 William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81 1992 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott 1992 Barbara McClintock, U.S., geneticist (Nobel 1983), dies at 90 1992 Menachem Begin, Prime Minister Israel 1977 - 1980, 1981 - 1983, Nobel 1979, dies at 85 1991 George Joseph Stigler, U.S. economist (Nobel 1982), dies at 80 1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize 1991 Edwin M McMillan, U.S., chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies 1991 Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies 1991 Isaac B Singer, Polish/U.S. writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize 1990 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize 1990 Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature 1990 U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize 1990 Patrick White, Australian writer (Nobel 1973), dies 1989 Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83 1989 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68 1989 John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies 1989 Conrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies 1989 Konrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at 85 1988 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel 1988 Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize 1988 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz 1988 U.N. peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize 1988 Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69 1988 Isidor Isaac Rabi, nuclear physicist (Nobel Prize-1944), dies at 89 1987 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky 1987 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M. Solow 1987 Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize 1987 Walter H Brattain, U.S. physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85 1987 Oscar Arias (Costa Rican president) wins Nobel Peace Prize 1987 Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88 1987 Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94 1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize 1986 Robert S Mulliken, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90 1986 Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K (Nobel 1943), dies at 92 1986 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93 1986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize 1986 Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87 1986 Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84 1986 Yaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakian poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84 1985 French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature 1985 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle 1985 Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani 1985 International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize 1985 Heinrich Boll, German writer (Nobel 1972), dies at 67 1985 Simon Kuznets, U.S. economist (Nobel 1971), dies at 84 1984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize 1984 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield 1984 Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize 1984 Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies 1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize 1983 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu 1983 Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize 1983 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84 1982 Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler 1982 Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92 1982 Stanford Moore, U.S. biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies 1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser) 1981 Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74 1981 Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist (Nobel 1969), dies at 74 1981 Harold C Urey, U.S. chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), dies at 87 1980 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein 1980 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz 1980 Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74 1980 William H Stein, U.S. biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies at 68 1979 Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1979 Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan 1979 Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies 1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize 1978 Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace prize 1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize 1978 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature 1976 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature 1976 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow 1976 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr 1976 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman 1976 Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74 1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize 1975 Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize 1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize 1975 Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78 1975 Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (1964-71 Nobel 1974), dies at 74 1975 Ivo Andric, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina', dies in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, at age 82 1974 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules) 1974 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82 1974 Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76 1974 Par Lagerkvist, Swedish author (Dwarf, Nobel 1951), dies at 83 1974 Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., U.S. pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies at 58 1974 Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from U.S.S.R. 1973 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief 1973 Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize 1973 Selman A Waksman, Russian/U.S. microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85 1973 Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65 1973 Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist (Nobel 1969), dies at 77 1972 Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister, Nobel 1957, dies at 75 1972 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks 1972 Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72 1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace 1971 Ralph J Bunche, United Nations delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in New York City 1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda 1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1971 Ralph J Bunche, 1st black U.S. diplomat (Nobel 1950), dies at 67 1970 Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh 1970 American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature 1970 Agnon, SJ Czaczkes, Hebrew writer (Nobel 1966), dies at 81 1970 Schmuel J Agnon, novelist (Nobel 1966), dies 1970 Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87 1969 Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen 1969 Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81 1969 Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58 1968 John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66 1968 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics) 1968 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber) 1968 Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89 1968 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66 1968 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59 1967 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe 1967 Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies 1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature 1966 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken 1966 Frederik "Frits" Zernike, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77 1965 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward 1965 Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry 1965 Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), dies at 90 1965 Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72 1964 French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize 1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize 1962 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77 1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature 1962 Dr. Watson (U.S.), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA 1962 Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84 1962 Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85 1962 William [Harrison] Faulkner, U.S. writer (Nobel 1949), dies at 64 1961 Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977) 1961 Jules J B V Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel 1919), dies at 90 1960 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House" 1959 Owen W. Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69 1958 Edgar A Robert Cecil viscount of Chelwood, (Nobel 1937), dies at 94 1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature 1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature 1958 Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939, dies at 57 1958 Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies 1958 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies 1958 Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76 1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize 1957 Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80 1957 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67 1956 Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen 1956 Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Minister of Justice (Nobel 54), dies 1955 Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr. Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80 1955 John R Mott, U.S. theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89 1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize 1954 Enrico Fermi, Italian/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53 1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize 1954 Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe 1954 Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry 1954 Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature 1954 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway 1953 Robert A Millikan, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85 1953 Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), dies in Boston at 65 1953 Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke 1953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize 1952 Orhan Pamuk, born in Istanbul, Turkey, novelist, professor in the Humanities, teaching comparative literature, writing, at Columbia University, received 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature 1952 Knut [Pedersen] Hamsun, Norwegian writer (Wanders, Nobel 1920), dies 1951 Harry Sinclair Lewis, U.S. writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65 1950 U.N. General Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954) 1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize 1950 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner 1950 Dr. Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize 1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner) 1950 Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987 1949 Sigrid Undset, Norse author (Olav Audunsson, Nobel 1928), dies at 67 1949 P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86 1949 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), dies 1949 Friedrich C R Bergius, chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64 1948 T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature 1947 Husband and wife Dr. Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes 1947 Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies 1946 U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) 1946 Elfriede Jelinek, born in MŸrzzuschlag, Austria, writer, playwright, novelist, member, Austria's Communist Party, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004 1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) 1945 Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel 1945 Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63 1945 Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist, Nobel 1976 1944 Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78 1944 Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize 1943 Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Nobel 1902), dies 1943 Lech Walesa, born in Popowo, Poland, leads Polish Solidarity, Nobel 1983 1943 Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86 1943 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/U.S. pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74 1941 Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77 1941 Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica, 1986-, Nobel 1987 1941 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82 1941 Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81 1940 Joseph Brodsky, U.S.S.R., author, Less than 1, Nobel 1987 1940 Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65 1940 Brian Josephson, British physicist, Nobel 1973 1939 Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron 1939 Seamus Heaney, born in Ireland, poet, writer, poetry professor at the University of Oxford, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, wrote play The Cure at Troy, Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf: A New Translation 1939 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Nobel), dies in France at 73 1938 Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth) 1938 Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48 1938 Kofi Annan, born in Ghana, Kofi Atta Annan, diplomat, statesman, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1997 - 2007, received 2001 Nobel Peace Prize 1937 Frank Kellog, U.S. foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies at 80 1937 Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson 1937 Ernest Rutherford baron of Nelson, English physicist (Nobel 1908), dies 1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies 1937 J Austen Chamberlain, English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73 1937 Robert Huber, Munich Germany, biochemist, Nobel 1988 1937 Elihu Root, U.S. Minister of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91 1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry 1936 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69 1936 Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize 1936 Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill 1936 Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64 1936 Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86 1936 Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70 1935 Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72 1935 Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65 1935 John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58 1934 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C. Urey (deuterium) 1934 Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65 1933 John Galsworthy, England, writer (Forsythe, Nobel 1932), dies at 65 1932 Paul Erlich, born in Bad Homburg, Germany, scientist, immunologist, won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, developed first antibacterial drug in modern medicine 1932 Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies 1932 Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69 1931 Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 1931 Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, 1980 Nobel Peace Prize 1931 Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize 1982 1931 John Schrieffer, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972 1931 A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, U.S. physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78 1931 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83 1930 Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt" 1930 Christiaan Eokman, bacteriologist (vitamin B1, Nobel 1929), dies at 72 1930 Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies 1930 Fridtjof Nansen, diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies 1930 Leon Cooper, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972 1930 Derek Walcott, born in St. Lucia, poet and writer, Omeros, Nobel 1992 1929 Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51 1929 Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64 1929 Yasser Arafat, PLO-leader, Achille Lauro, Nobel 1994 1929 Rudolf Mossbauer, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1961 1929 John Polanyi, Berlin, Canadian chemist, Nobel 1986 1929 Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta, dreamer, Nobel 1964 1928 Elie Wiesel, Romania, author, Souls on Fire, Nazi hunter, Nobel 1986 1928 Wilhelm Wien, Germany physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64 1928 Theodore Richards, U.S. chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies 1928 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Col, novelist, Europa Y America, Nobel 1982 1927 Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 1967 1927 Karl Muller, born in Switzerland, superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987 1926 Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80 1926 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72 1926 Camillo Golgi, Italian medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81 1925 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel 1925 Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920), dies at 74 1925 Joshua Lederberg, born in New Jersey, microbiologist, Nobel Prize winner, focused on genetics 1924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine 1924 Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven 1923 Nadine Gordimer, South African author, July's people, Nobel 1991 1923 Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State, 1973 - 1977, Nobel Peace Prize, 1973 1923 Johannes S van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85 1923 Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77 1922 Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein 1922 Chen Ning Yang, China, U.S. physicist/disproved parity, Nobel 1957 1922 Aage Neals Bohr, born in Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus, Nobel 1975 1922 Nikolaj G. Bassov, born in Russia, atomic physicist, laser, Nobel 1964 1922 Yitzak Rabin, premier Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994 1922 Robert W. Holley, U.S., biochemist, worked with RNA, Nobel '68 1922 Har G Khorana, India/Canada bio-chemist, Nobel 1968 1921 Gerard Debreu, France, economist, Nobel 1983 1921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75 1921 Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies 1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson 1920 Francois Jacob, born in France, biologist/bacteriologist, Nobel 1965 1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson 1919 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies 1919 John W. S. Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76 1919 Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies 1919 Donald Cram, U.S., biochemist, Nobel 1987 1918 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President, 1970-81, Nobel 1978 1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born in Kislovodsk, Russia, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, writer, won Nobel Prize, 1970, wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago', exiled in 1974 1918 Ernst Fischer, German chemist, Nobel 1973 1918 Derek Barton, British chemist, Nobel 1969 1918 Frederick Sanger, England, biochemist, Nobel 1958, 1980 1918 Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965 1918 Arthur Kornberg, U.S. biochemist won Nobel 1959 1918 Gertrude Belle Elion, New York City, biochemist/drug researcher, Nobel 1988 1917 Andrew Fielding Huxley, born in London, England, physiologist, Nobel 1963 1917 Heinrich Boll, Germ, writer, Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72, 1917 Heinrich Boll, Germ, writer, Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72, 1917 JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies 1917 Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist, Nobel 1965 1917 Herbert A Hauptman, New York City, x-ray crystallographer, Nobel 1985 1916 Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA, Nobel 1962 1916 Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russian bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies 1916 Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure, Nobel 1962 1916 Christian B. Anfinsen, U.S. chemist, cell physiology, Nobel 1972 1916 Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 1915 Henry Taube, chemist, Nobel 1983 1915 Earl W. Sutherland, U.S. pharmacologist, Nobel 1971 1915 Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry 1915 Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61 1915 Saul Bellow, born in Lachine, Quebec, author, Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976 1915 Paul A. Samuelson, economist, 1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal 1915 Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist, Nobel 1953 1914 Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist, Nobel 1952 1914 Saul Bellow, born in Quebec, novelist, Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet 1914 Norman Borlaug, born in Cresco, Iowa, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1914 Alan Hodgkin, British physicist, Nobel 1963 1914 Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index 1913 Willy Brandt, Herbert Frahm, German chancellor, 1969 - 1974, Nobel 1971 1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics 1913 Claude Simon, born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, writer, prize-winning author, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature, identified with the nouveau roman movement 1913 Stanford Moore, U.S. biochemist, Nobel 1977 1913 Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-83, Nobel 1978 1913 Tobias MC Asser, lawyer (Nobel 1911), dies 1913 Willis Lamb, born in Los Angeles, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, discovery of how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom 1912 George E Palade, Romanian/U.S. cell biologist, ribosomen, Nobel 1974 1912 August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94, Nobel 1909), dies at 83 1912 Edward M Purcell, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1952 1912 Salvador E Luria, Italian/U.S. biologist, Nobel prize 1969 1912 Milton Friedman, economist, Nobel 1976 1912 Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies 1912 Patrick White, Australia, novelist, Happy Valley, Nobel 1973 1912 Glen T. Seaborg, U.S. chemist, AEC, plutonium, Nobel 1951 1912 Leonid V Kantorovich, St. Petersburg Russia, economist, Nobel 1911 Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize 1911 Nagib Machfus, Egyptian writer, Nobel 1988 1911 Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace 1911 Odysseus Elytis Alepoudellis, Greece, poet, Nobel 1979 1911 William A Fowler, U.S., astrophysicist, Nobel 1983 1911 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer, Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980 1911 William H. Stein, U.S. biochemist, Nobel 1972 1911 Melvin Calvin, U.S. chemist, photosynthesis, Nobel 1961 1911 Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58 1911 Polykarp Kusch, U.S., nuclear physicist: Nobel 1955 1910 JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics 1910 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist, Nobel 1983 1910 Mother Teresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Yugoslavia, Nobel 1979 1910 Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies 1910 Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist, penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964 1910 Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77 1910 William B Shockley, London, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956, racist 1910 Dominique Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WW II refugees, Nobel 1958 1909 Edward L Tatum, U.S., molecular geneticist, Nobel 1958 1909 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel 1962 1908 Willard Frank Libby, inventor, carbon-14 "atomic clock", Nobel 1960, 1908 A D Hershey, U.S., biologist, worked with bacteriophages, Nobel 1969 1908 Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist, penicillin, Nobel 1945 1908 Hannes OG Alfven, Swedish physicist, Nobel 1970 1908 John Bardeen, U.S., physicist, transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972 1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature 1907 Edwin M McMillan, U.S., physicist/discoverer plutonium, Nobel prize 1907 R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies 1907 Felix de Nobel, Dutch orchestra leader 1907 Nicholas Tinbergen, Netherlands/British biologist/zoologist, Nobel 1973 1907 Daniel Bovet, born in Switzerland, pharmacologist, Nobel 1957 1907 [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54 1907 Giosue Carducci, poet (Nobel 1906), dies 1907 Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist, Nobel 1949 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1906 George Wald, U.S., physiologist/biologist, eye, Nobel 1967 1906 Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist, Nobel 1969 1906 Wassely Leontief, Russian/U.S. economist, Nobel 1973 1906 Hans Bethe, physicist, Nobel 1967, peace worker 1906 Maria Goeppert Mayer, U.S. atomic physicist, Nobel 1963 1906 Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies 1906 Samuel Beckett, French playwright, Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969 1905 Felix Bloch, Swiss/U.S. nuclear physicist, Nobel 1952 1905 Carl David Anderson, New York City, physicist, 1936 Nobel Prize for physics 1905 Dag Hammarskjold, Sweden, 2nd United Nations Secretary-General, 1953-61, Nobel 1961 1905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist, Life-Terms, Nobel 1981 1905 Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer, Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined 1905 Mikhail Sholokhov, U.S.S.R., writer, And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965 1905 Ulf Svante von Euler, Sweden, physiologist, Nobel 1970 1905 Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki 1904 Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist, Nobel 1970 1904 Louis Neel, French physicist, Nobel 1970 1904 Charles Pedersen, UK, biochemist, Nobel 1987 1904 Niels Ryberg Finnen, Danish physician (Nobel 1903), dies 1904 Werner Forssman, German urologist, Nobel 1956 1904 Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus, Nobel 1946 1904 Ralph J Bunche, founder/diplomat, UN, Nobel 1950 1904 John R. Hicks, British economist, Nobel 1972 1904 Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty International co-founder, Nobel '74 1903 H Keffer Hartline, U.S., biophysicist, Nobel 1967 1903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie 1903 Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion, Nobel 1950 1903 Konrad Lorenz, zoologist/ethologist, Man and His Ideas, Nobel 1973 1903 [Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies 1903 George Beadle, U.S. biologist, Nobel 1958 1903 Axel Theorell, Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes, Nobel 1955 1903 Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and U.N. advisor, Nobel 1969 1903 Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist, Nobel 1939 1902 Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist, A Bomb, Nobel 1963 1902 Paul A M Dirac, England, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933 1902 Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel 1950 1902 Barbara McClintock, U.S., cytogeneticist, Jumping Genes, Nobel 1983 1902 Halldor Laxness, born in Iceland, novelist, Salka Valka, Nobel 1955 1902 Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956-transistor 1902 Alva Myrdal, Uppsala Sweden, diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize-1982 1901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy) 1901 Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty, Nobel 32 1901 Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakian poet, Nobel 1984 1901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet, critic and translator Nobel 1959 1901 Ernest Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 1901 Sato Eisaku, Lib, Japanese PM, 1964-72, Nobel 1974 1901 Wilhelm Conrad von Rontgen, physicist, Nobel 1901 Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Minister of Justice, Nobel 1954 1901 Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan, Nobel 1974 1901 Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker, Nobel 1954, 1962 1900 Richard Kuhn, Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins, Nobel 1938 1900 Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/U.S. physicist, Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945 1900 [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel 1935 1900 Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet, Nobel 1963 1899 Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat, Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67 1899 Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, for whom the bell tolled..., Nobel 1954 1899 Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer, Nobel Literature 1968 1899 Max Theiler, English/U.S. microbiologist, Nobel 1951 1898 Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist, Nobel 1974 1898 Howard W. Florey, Australia, pathologist; purified penicillin, Nobel '45 1898 Albert Claude, Belgium, biologist/physician, Nobel 1974 1898 Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist, explored atom, Nobel 1944 1898 Vicente Aleixandre, born in Spain, writer, Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977 1897 Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist, nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948 1897 Ronald G. W. Norrish, British chemist, Nobel 1967 1897 Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, neutron, Nobel 1935 1897 Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1950 1897 John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist, Radar, Nobel 1951 1897 Lester Bowles Pearson, L, 14th Canadian PM, 1963-68, Nobel 1957 1896 Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63 1896 Robert Mulliken, U.S., chemist/physicist, Nobel 1966 1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize 1895 Ragnar Frisch, Norway, economist, won 1st Nobel prize in economy in 1969 1893 Edward A Doisy Sr, U.S. bio-chemist, Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943 1893 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungary, biochemist, Vitamin C, Nobel 1937 1893 Harold C Urey, Indiana, physicist, Deuterium, Nobel 1934 1892 Ivo Andric, born in Dolac, Bosnia, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina' 1892 Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist, Nobel 1929 1892 George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction, Nobel 1937 1891 John Northrop, U.S., biochemist, crystallized enzymes, Nobel 1946 1891 Par Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist, Barabbas, Nobel 1951 1891 Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist, Nobel 1954 1890 Boris L Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet, Dr. Zhivago, Nobel 1958, 1889 Edgar D Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel 1932 1889 Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate, Nobel 1959 1889 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, Desolacion, Tenderness and Nobel 1945 1888 Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist, Nobel 1930 1888 Carl von Ossietzky, Germany, journalist/pacifist, Nobel 1935 1888 Frits Zernike, invented phase-contrast microscope, Nobel 1953 1888 Selman Waksman, Russian/U.S. microbiologist, Nobel 1951 1888 Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist, Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943 1887 Rene Cassin, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize 1968 1887 Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist, Nobel 1925 1887 Bernardo A. Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel 1947 1886 Karl MG Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, rontgen spectroscope, Nobel 1924 1886 Karl von Frisch, zoologist/bee expert, Nobel 1973 1886 Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone, Nobel 1950 1885 George Minot, U.S., physician, worked on anemia, Nobel 1934 1885 Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright, Nobel 1952 1885 Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics, Nobel 1922 1885 Harry Sinclair Lewis, U.S., writer, Babbitt, Nobel 1930 1885 Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic, Main Street, Nobel 1930 1884 Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st lady, 1933-1945, crusader, Nobel 1931 1884 Friedrich C R Bergius, German chemist, benzine from brown coal, Nobel 1884 Theodor Svedberg, Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids, Nobel 1926 1884 Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist, Nobel 1936 1882 Max Born, Germany, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954 1882 James Franck, German naturalist, Nobel 1925 1882 Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist, Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928 1881 Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spain, poet, Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956 1881 Alexander Fleming, born in England, bacteriologist, penicillin; Nobel 1954 1881 Hans Fischer, German physicist, Nobel 1930 1881 Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher, Nobel '53 1881 Irving Langmuir, inventor, tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932 1880 George C Marshall, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, authored Marshall Plan, Nobel 1953 1880 John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO, Nobel 1949 1879 Leon Jouhaux, born in France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO, Nobel 1951 1879 Owen Williams Richardson, born in England, physicist, Nobel 1928 1879 Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1921 1879 Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium 1878 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentina, jurist, Nobel Peace Prize 1936 1878 Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor, 1923, Nobel 1926 1877 Hermann Hesse, born in Switzerland, novelist and poet, Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946 1876 John J R Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist, Nobel 1923 1876 Robert Barany, Sweden, otologist, vestibular expert, Nobel 1914 1875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist, Nobel 1954 1874 Norman Angell, Lane, English cowboy/journalist, Nobel 1933 1874 Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, Nobel 1953 1874 Antonio Egas Moniz, Portugal, lobotomist, Nobel 1949 1874 Karl Bosch, German chemist, BASF, Nobel 1931 1874 Guglielmo Marconi, born in Bologna, Italy, inventor, radio, Nobel 1909 1874 Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist, Stark effect, Nobel 1919 1873 Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist, Nobel 1912 1873 Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet, Energy Storage, Nobel 1944 1872 Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher, Nobel 1950 1871 Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, 1933 - 1944, lowered tariffs, Nobel 1945 1871 Ernest Lord Rutherford, England, physicist, atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908 1870 Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion, Nobel 1926 1870 Jules JBV Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist, syphillis, Nobel 1919 1869 Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist, Nobel 1921 1868 Fritz Haber, German phycist-chemist, Nobel 1919 1868 Karl Landsteiner, born in Austria, immunologist/pathologist, Nobel 1930 1868 Robert A. Millikan, U.S. physicist, photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923 1867 Alfred Nobel patents dynamite 1867 Marie Curie, French Scientist, discovered radium, Nobel 1903, 1911 1867 Emily Green Balch, U.S., sociologist/feminist/pacifist, Nobel 1946 1866 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1913 1866 Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, Nobel 1922 1866 Romain Rolland, born in France, writer, Jean-Christophe, Nobel 1915 1866 Nathan Soderblom, Lutheran archbishop, internationalist, Nobel '30 1865 Charles Gates Dawes, R, 30th Vice President, 1925-29, Nobel 1925 1865 John Raleigh Mott, organizer, YMCA, Nobel 1946 1865 Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902 1864 Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist, Nobel 1911 1864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations, Nobel 1937 1864 Robert Cecil, viscount of Chelwood, Nobel 1937 1864 Erik Karlfeldt, born in Sweden, poet, Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous 1864 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist/chemist, Nobel 1920 1864 Wilhelm K. W. Wien, German phyicist, Nobel 1911 1863 International Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963) 1863 Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, Nobel 1925 1863 Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker, Nobel 1934 1862 P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet, Blue Bird, Nobel 1911 1862 Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician, Nobel 1911 1862 Nicholas Murray Butler, U.S., Columbia University president and pacifist, Nobel 1931 1862 Aristide Briand, born in France, 11x premier, 1909-22, Nobel 1926 1861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer/humanitarian, Nobel 1922 1861 Radindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer, Nobel 1913 1860 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist, Nobel 1903 1860 Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize 1921 1860 Jane Addams, U.S., pacifist/social worker/feminist, Nobel 1931 1859 Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet and novelist, Charles Men, Nobel 1916 1859 Pierre Curie, France, physicist, Nobel 1903 1859 Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist, Nobel 1903 1858 Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, R, 26th President, 1901 - 1909, Nobel Peace Prize 1906 1858 Christian Eijkman, born in Netherlands, bacteriologist, avitaminos, Nobel 1929 1858 Max Planck, German physicist, Planck Constant, Nobel 1918 1858 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician, Nobel prize 1927 1857 Henrik Pontoppidan, born in Denmark, writer, Promised Country, Nobel 1917 1857 Karl Adolph Gjellerup, born in Denmark, poet, Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917 1857 Ronald Ross, England, pathologist, Nobel 1902 1857 Julius Wagner von Jauregg, born in Austria, psychiatrist, Nobel 1927 1856 Woodrow Wilson, Staunton, Virginia, 28 president-D 1912 - 1921, Nobel 1919 1856 Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, 1925 - 1929, try to outlaw war, Nobel 1929 1856 Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron, Nobel 1906 1854 Henri-Marie Lafontaine, born in Belgium, international lawyer, Nobel 1913 1853 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, liquid helium, Nobel 1913 1853 Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist, Nobel 1909 1853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, born in Holland, physicist, Nobel 1902 1852 A[lbert] A. Michelson, Strelno Prussia, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1907 1852 Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity, Nobel 1903 1852 [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, Paris, France, chemist, Nobel 1906 1852 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Netherlands, physical chemist, Nobel 1901 1851 Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier, 1895-96, Nobel 1920 1851 Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist, Nobel 1920 1850 Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy, Nobel 1909 1849 Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology, Nobel 1904 1847 Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist, Nobel 1910 1846 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author, Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905 1846 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher, Nobel 1908 1845 Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, U.S.S.R., zoologist/bacteriologist, Nobel 1908 1845 Carl Spitteler, born in Switzerland, poet, Prometheus and Epimetheus; Nobel 1919 1845 Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, born in Germany, discovered X-rays, Nobel 1901 1845 Elihu Root, R, U.S. Secretary of State, 1905 - 1909, Nobel Peace Prize, 1912 1844 Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist, Nobel 1908 1844 Anatole France, writer, Thais, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921 1843 Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, TB, cholera, Nobel 1905 1843 Camillo Golgi, Italy, physician, cytologist, Nobel 1906 1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist, Nobel 1905 1841 Ferdinand-Edouard Buisson, France, educator, Nobel Peace Prize 1927 1841 John W. Rayleigh, England, physicist, Nobel 1904, Cambridge, 1908-14 1841 Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist, Nobel 1909 1839 Rene F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, born in France, poet, 1st Nobel winner, 1901 1838 Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law, Nobel 1911 1838 Randal Cremer, born in Britain, trade unionist, pacifist, Nobel 1903 1837 John van der Waals, Hol, physicist, Nobel 1910, Liquid and Gas States 1837 Fredrik Bajer, born in Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist, Nobel 1908 1835 J. F. W. Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel 1905 1835 Giosue Carducci, born in Italy, poet, Nobel 1906 1834 Charles-Albert Gobat, born in Switzerland, politician, lawyer, and author, Nobel 1902 1833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite and Peace Prizes 1833 Alfred Nobel, Swedish Scientist 1833 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italy, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize 1907 1833 Elie Ducommun, born in Switzerland, writer and pacifist, Nobel 1902 1832 Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician/dramatist, Nobel 1904 1830 Frederic Mistral, Provencal poet, Nobel 1904 1830 Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer, Nobel 1910 1828 Jean Henri Dunant, born in Switzerland, writer and founder, Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901 1822 Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist, Nobel 1901 1817 Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author, Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902 |
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