golden city of El Dorado‚ he failed to locate the city. Two other notable people mentioned in the chapter are the chemists and Nobel laureates‚ Svante Arrhenius and Fritz Haber. In one of the stories told in this chapter‚ the Nazis were oppressing the Jewish scientists and were confiscating all of their gold. Unfortunately‚ the Nobel prize medals were made of gold‚ and so‚ two Nobel laureates‚ Max von Laue and James Franck‚ had Niels Bohr keep their
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Introduction Did you know that the first Nobel Peace Prize for Chemistry was given to Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff in 1901 for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions? Over the next 115 years it has been awarded to some of the world’s top scientists and chemists. In 1908 it was awarded to Ernest Rutherford for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements‚ and the chemistry of radioactive substances. Ernest lived a very interesting life. Author’s
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi once said‚ “Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart‚ and it must be an inseparable part of our being.” Gandhi dedicated his life to a role of non-violence amidst times of hate‚ war‚ and even bigotry. He was at the forefront on India’s quest for freedom from Britain during the mid 1900’s. Gandhi led hundreds of thousands of Indians into civil disobedience against the British‚ however; he believed the most important thing was
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won the Nobel peace prize. Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel peace prize for his leadership in civil rights movements. He received the Nobel peace prize on December 10 1964. He pledged the prize money to the movements continued development. At the age of thirty five and(?) he became the youngest man to win the Nobel peace prize. He was also only the second African American to receive this award. Probably the
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Alice Munro‚ a non-traditional Nobel Laureate‚ is known for the exquisite life and connection she brings to her 30 page short stories‚ all based on her own personal experiences and history. Munro’s familial and personal history is familiar to the readers and fans of her stories because she uses her relatable experiences to create her characters. Each of her short stories are a part of larger collection‚ including novels Dear Life and Runaway. Her works bring a sense of intimacy‚ allowing the
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activist since the age of eleven‚ and is now eighteen. She stuck up for herself and others for the injustices that the Taliban did‚ and brought. According to biography.com‚ “She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2013. In 2014‚ she was nominated again and won‚ becoming the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.” The nominations and winnings that she has won‚ she has truly deserved. She stands up for herself and others‚ even though she has her life on the line for doing
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presented in this report on Prime Commercial Bank Limited submitted to Nobel College‚ Pokhara University is my original work and all the information included in this report is true in the form of partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) under the supervision of Mr. Kamal Prasad Regmi‚ Principal‚ Nobel College and Mr. Dipesh Shrestha‚ Head Of Department‚ Faculty Of Management‚ Nobel College. ................................... Mr. Dhruba raj
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Karplus‚ Levitt‚ Warshel win 2013 Nobel prize for chemistry Martin Karplus‚ Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems‚ the award-giving body said on Wednesday. “(The scientists) laid the foundation for the powerful programs that are used to understand and predict chemical processes‚” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement when awarding the prize of 8 million crowns ($1.25 million)
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Nobel‚ was one of the most ingenious people alive. He created the chemical compound called nitroglycerin‚ also known as dynamite. Alfred was praised for creating dynamite as it forward the industrial industry and sped up railroad working. Though one unfortunate day Alfred’s brother died from an accidental explosion of dynamite. The next day the newspaper ran an obituary of the Nobel’s death‚ but the newspaper was mistaken about which Nobel had died. One afternoon‚ Alfred
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languages. Her writing has been described as lyrical and she has been applauded for “writing prose with the luster of poetry.” Morrison won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel Belovedand the coveted Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. In a released statement‚ the Nobel Prize Committee of the Swedish Academy awarded the prize to Morrison “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import‚ gives life to an essential aspect
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