because she knew what she wanted. While she was studying at University she met Pier Curie‚ who she married and raised a family with. Together‚ they developed the studying of radioactivity and shared with Henri Becquerel their Nobel Prize in Physics. After that Marie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It is amazing how much strength she had to overcome her social condition to study and research radioactivity up to give her own life due to all of the years of exposure that made her developed cancer and
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Hannah Campos Professor Gibbons English 2 February 25‚ 2013 The Future of Language is in Our Hands Toni Morrison’s is a leading figure in American literature who won the Nobel Prize in 1993. She is good at giving different points of views or metaphors in order to show her purpose of writing and produce the tension of beauty. Black history plays a huge role in Morrison’s writing. In her lecture she tells a story happening between a blind woman and a few young men. The young men question
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of towering intellectual achievement across the world. Every year‚ the 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize for economics returns to Santiniketan‚ the tiny university town 100-odd miles from Calcutta. In Santiniketan‚ the former Master of Trinity College‚ Cambridge‚ can be seen on a bicycle‚ friendly and unassuming‚ chatting with the locals and working for a trust he has set up with the money from his Nobel Prize. One of the most influential public thinkers of our times is strongly rooted in the country
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Per Lao-Tzu’s “wu wei” if you can master the art of doing nothing‚ then you can achieve anything you desire. As perplexing and difficult as it may seem to comprehend‚ Lao-Tzu’s “wu wei” didn’t exactly mean to literally do nothing‚ but rather let nature take course. Act on what nature entails relatively than what you desire. When you do more‚ you attain less so mastering the art of doing less you achieve more‚ one of the major ways to learn how to achieve more is to stop worrying‚ learning to accept
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Faulkner‚ Mississippi born author‚ took stage upon the winter of nineteen fifty to accept his Nobel Prize in Literature of nineteen forty-nine because of "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel". Despite having dropped out of school at an early age and only completing a single year in college‚ Faulkner’s career as a writer is well credible through awards not limited to the Nobel Prize for Literature. Some of which include two National Book Awards and two of the more
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Golden Notebook‚ and five other novels collectively known as Canopus in Academy. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience‚ who with skepticism‚ fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny". She was also the eleventh woman and the oldest ever person to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. It is a book that expresses the major themes of the world in its century. What we now
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University of Phoenix Material Historic Foundations of Economic Thought Matrix Foundations of Psychology Paper Individual | Time Period | Influences | Works/Contribution | Impact | Plato | | | | | Adam Smith | | | | | J.S. Mill | (1806 – 1873) | | | | Karl Marx | (1818–1883) | | | | Thomas Malthus | ( 1766 –1834) | | | | David Ricardo | (1772 – 1823) | | | | John Maynard Keynes | (1883 – 1946) | | | | Milton Friedman | (1912 – 2006) | |
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Niels Hedrik David Bohr Niels Hendrik David Bohr was one of the foremost scientists of the 20th century. The Nobel prizewinning physicist was known for his development of the theory of atomic fission that led to the development of the atomic bomb. He was born on Oct. 7‚ 1885‚ in Copenhagen‚ Denmark. His father‚ Christian‚ was a professor at the University of Copenhagen and his brother‚ Harold‚ was a great mathematician. Bohr and his family grew up in an atmosphere that helped the development of
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unfolding infective‚ and later inflammatory diseases‚ cellular pathology and immunology. Progress in therapeutics was slow and physicians and rheumatologists had to borrow drugs from other medical disciplines‚ for example antimalarials and cytotoxics. The Nobel Prize-winning discovery and development of cortisone was a major landmark in medicine‚ while also treating rheumatoid arthritis. Thanks to the advent of molecular medicine‚ rapid strides have been accomplished‚ and we now have new agents of biotechnology
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