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    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 died

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    slow and anti-social. Eventually‚ he was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. It might have taken him a bit longer‚ but most people would agree that he caught on pretty well in the end‚ winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics. Most people wouldn’t believe that a man often lauded as the best basketball player of all time was actually cut from his high school basketball team. Luckily‚ Jordan didn’t let this setback

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    Ghost of a city lives in another” is a very interesting piece; it questions the modern meaning of globalization. Globalization is often seen as a positive term‚ a consequence of human improvement. According to Joseph Stiglitz‚ an economist and Nobel Prize winner defines globalization in this way: “Globalization is the closer integration of the countries and people of the world brought by the enormous reduction of costs of transportation and communication. Globalization is also helping to people of

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    with the seventh million person born on this planet‚ the prediction that the population would outrun the food supply was proposed by Malthus (19th century) and Ehrlich (Population Bomb‚ 1968). Norman Borlaug was a scientist that won a Nobel Peace Prize because of his efforts in providing food for half the world through a green revolution. When criticized about his work‚ Dr‚ Borlaug simply responded saying that‚ “the real problem was not his agricultural techniques‚ but the runaway population growth

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    to is money. Capitalists love Runescape. Political Factors Politics‚ we all agree‚ is a fact of life. Placing theory on the scales of justice and weighing it against practice can produce similar results to contrasting 0 To quote nobel prize winner Xaviera Rock ’Taking a walk across hot coals will inevitably hurt your feet.’ [2]

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    Elie reminisce the readers that if an event like the Holocaust were to happen again nobody would be safe. Wiesel wrote his memoir “Night” to elude past experiences like the Holocaust from happening again by the use of diction. In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Elie explain‚ “And then I explain to him how naïve we were‚ that the world did known and remained silent” (Elie Wiesel‚ 118). According to the website dictionary.com Naïve means “having or showing a

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    preparing‚ and instead went into science. There he had a great impact on the field of physiology by studying the mechanisms underlying the digestive system in mammals. For his original work in this field of research‚ Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904. By then he had turned to studying the laws on the formation of conditioned reflexes‚ a topic on which he worked until his death in 1936. His discoveries in this field paved the way for an objective science

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    FILIPINO SCIENTIST Julian Banzon - Filipino Chemist: Filipino chemist‚ Julian Banzon researched methods of producing alternative fuels. Julian Banzon experimented with the production of ethyl esters fuels from sugarcane and coconut‚ and invented a means of extracting residual coconut oil by a chemical process rather than a physical process. Julian Banzon - Degrees: * BS in Chemistry from the University of the Philippines - 1930 * Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from Iowa State University

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    The foreign male‚ Luigi Pirandello was born on June 28‚ 1867 in Agrigento‚ Italy and died at the age of 69 on December 10‚ 1936. He was a person who played in plays‚ wrote many of novels and also did some drama plays. In 1934 he was given the Nobel Prize in Literature for all of the great work he has did over those years in between when he was born. He was a very good author that done many plays and poetry around in Italy. He never had it bad in life while growing up because his family was very rich

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    Brett Whiteley and Francis Bacon Essay Question: Discuss the way Whiteley’s work; ‘Self Portrait in the Studio’ 1976‚ and Bacon’s ‘Figure in Movement‚ 1976’ show two very different approaches to practice. How have these artists used gesture‚ colour‚ and form differently in these works to explore totally different emotional and psychological territory? Francis Bacon and Brett Whiteley show two very different approaches to their practice. They use gesture‚ colour and form differently in these works

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