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    Matthew Rose Mr. Schwartz Chemistry 8 March 2011 Ernest Rutherford Ernest Rutherford was one of the most famous physicists of the early 20th century. He won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1908 for his work on atomic emissions and his contributions that led to the discovery of atomic fission. Ernest Rutherford was born in Nelson‚ New Zealand on August 30‚ 1871. His father was James Rutherford and his Mother was Martha Thompson. His father was a wheelwright‚ a person who builds and repairs

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    Economist Robert Mundell

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    References: Robert A. Mundell.The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1999.www. nobelprize.org. Retrieved December11‚ 2008 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel‚ 1999. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1999/ecoback99.pdf. Retrieved Deceember11‚ 2008.

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    C.V.Raman

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    Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman‚ FRS (Tamil: சந்திரசேகர வெங்கடராமன்) (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in the world. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material‚ some of the light that is deflected changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect. Contents * 1 Early years

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    Antoine Henri Becquerel

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    ------------------------------------------------- Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist‚ Nobel laureate‚ and the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie‚[1] for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. Biography [edit]Early life Becquerel was born in Paris into a family which produced four generations of scientists: Becquerel ’s grandfather (Antoine César Becquerel)‚ father (Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel)‚ and son (Jean Becquerel). He studied

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    THE MOMENT OF PRIDE FOR ALL INDIANS As I stepped through the grand doors to enter the great City Hall‚ I was overwhelmed to experience the vast number of high profile personalities who had made the effort to support the Noble Prize ceremony. A host of recognized faces had assembled to celebrate the two noble laureates India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai. I felt a great deal of personal honor and pride to be amongst this elite group of people to witness this historical event

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    If we forget‚ then this event will happen again‚ so we will not forget so that the event won’t happen again. In this essay‚ I will be finding sources in the stories The Diary of Anne Frank: A play‚ Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech‚ and Parallel Journeys. I will argue that Stand Up and Don’t Forget is the best way of responding to conflict because you will remember and you will not forget it. Stand up and Don’t Forget is supportive because if we forget‚ We don’t know what we could be going through

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    dropped out and devoted his life to science. He attended the University of St. Petersburg and later became the head of the Physiology Department at the Institute of Experimental Medicine. In his lifetime‚ Pavlov was awarded two gold medals and a Nobel Prize for his work. “Despite seeming to have been personally opposed to Communism‚ his fame was such that the Soviet government built a specialist research laboratory to accommodate his studies in 1935.”(Age of the Sage‚ n.d.) Pavlov died in February of

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    The Silver Mine

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    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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    Indian Scientist

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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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    Chemistry: Peter Debye

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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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