to a mineralogist to see the value of the mineral and they find out that it is silver. Later some of the men end up dying because all the money is corrupting them. "The Silver Mine" is by‚ Selma Lagerlof who has won the Nobel Prize as the first women ever to receive the prize. An abundance of money that you have not earned can corrupt you. First of all this group ends up finding the silver and they take it to the mineralogist and they find out that they are going to be rich. "Let us see that you make
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Beyond Contemporary Comprehension Do plants have feelings? Do they suffer pain like us? Can their feelings be detected‚ or even ‘measured’? Jagdish Chandra Bose‚ a distinguished Indian scientist‚ announced his discovery to an astonished world in 1900. At an international conference of physicists in Paris‚ and later in England‚ Bose proved plants respond to pain and suffering much like humans‚ even when the plants are cut or transplanted. To prove his theory‚ Bose invented an instrument called
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introduced the Debye-Hückel equation‚ an essential discovery in the modern perception of electrolytic solutions and the basis for the general theory of strong electrolytes. Though he was actually a physicist by training and career‚ he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1936‚ for "his contributions to the study of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of x-rays and electrons in gases.” Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debye was born March 24th 1884 in
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Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg is an autobiography that starts from Mr. Bragg’s impoverished childhood in a family that included an abusive‚ alcoholic father‚ an incredibly powerful angel of a mother and his two brothers‚ and follows him through his Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistic career at the New York Times. The author states at the beginning of the book that readers will laugh and cry reading it. He was right on the money with both of these points. The Bragg family grew up with virtually nothing.
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regardless of what type of gas used. He said that all mater is made of small particles‚ that where way smaller than atoms.He called them corpuscles.Which are known as electrons. In 1906 he began studying positive rays .Thomson won the 1905 nobel prize among many accolades.Then he discovered in 1912 that neon was composed of two different types of atoms. He created the first evidence for isotopes of a stable (non -radioactive) element in 1913‚as part of his explo oseph John Thomson was born on December
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education. Today‚ women are becoming an ever-increasing percentage of the scientific and medical work force. In 1982 Barbara McClintock won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of mobile genetic elements. Her discovery was that genes could jump around on chromosomes. This discovery was the basis of today’s advances in genetic engineering. The Nobel Prize Committee called
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A Life Dedicated to Others There are many people in this world that we consider great humanitarians. They may become our own heroes‚ people we admire and respect‚ people who make us look at world with a different eye. Among those people the woman I admire most from the twentieth century is Mother Teresa. I regard her as one of the most caring and kind-hearted persons the world has ever known. If you take a look at a photograph of Mother Teresa‚ the most remarkable things
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(1902-1968). Retrieved from http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/health/syllabuild.iguide/steinbec.html Liukkonen‚ P. (2002). John Steinbeck (1902-1968). Retrieved from http://www.kjrjasto.sci.fi/johnstei.htm Nobelprize.org. (2011‚ June 21). The Nobel Prize in literature 1962 John Steinbeck. Retrieved from http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/1962/steinbeck-bio.html Steinbeck‚ J. (2011). The Grapes of Wrath. Retrieved from http://www.enotes.com/grapes-of-wrath/author-biography Tuffey‚ D. (2004)
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When you think great American author‚ many people think of Anna Quindlen. She won many awards. They include but are not limited to a Pulitzer and two Clarion Awards. She is an older sister and a daughter‚ as well as a wife and mother. Anna Quindlen has published many‚ many literary works‚ including novels‚ children’s books‚ nonfiction works‚ columns‚ and new table pictorials. This woman is not only an author‚ but she is a role model and hero to some‚ having accomplished her dreams with great dignity
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In 1971‚ a small group of doctors in Paris formed an organization. Their goal was to provide emergency medical aid‚ no matter where it is needed or who needs it. This was the beginning of Medecins Sans Frontieres‚ (MSF) or‚ in English‚ Doctors Without Borders. The philosophy of MSF is that all people have the right to medical care‚ regardless of race‚ religion‚ or nationality. Today‚ according to MSF‚ the world needs medical doctors who can provide aid to any nation quickly‚ efficiently‚ and without
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