Military Cross for his bravery. He was also responsible for one of the greatest achievements in medical history‚ the discovery of insulin in 1922. He had saved the lives of countless diabetics throughout the world. Frederick Banting won the first Nobel Prize for Canadians in Medicine and Physiology in 1923‚ for no single event in the history of medicine had so dramatically changed the lives of so many people. He was also knighted in 1934. Mr. Banting was the greatest medical scientist known to mankind
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recognize that money in many cases cannot bring about happiness‚ health and success. A more precise‚ contemporaneous definition of success means doing the things one perceives are valuable to themselves and beneficial for others. The winner of the Nobel Prize for peace may think he is has achieved success although he is rewarded little financial benefit. A person who loves animals and makes an effort to save animals that are on a path of extinction may think he has gained success although he may have expended
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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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Marie Curie Marie Curie was born Maria Sklowdaska on November 7th‚ 1867. She was the fifth and youngest child in her family. Times were tough living in the Russian parition of Poland‚ and her family suffered many financial hardships. She attended school and graduated as Valedictorian‚ but all the years of stress lead up to a sort of breakdown‚ and she had to spend some time away from home with her uncle until she felt less depressed. Soon‚ she was ready for higher education. However‚ being a woman
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Albert Camus (French: [albɛʁ kamy] ( listen); 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French Nobel Prize winning author‚ journalist‚ and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay "The Rebel" that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual and sexual freedom. Although often cited as a proponent of existentialism‚ the philosophy with which Camus was associated during
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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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Mo Yan pens Nobel success story Writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy‚ which gives out the annual prizes‚ described Mo’s works as "hallucinatory realism" merging "folk tales‚ history and the contemporary." "Through a mixture of fantasy and reality‚ historical and social perspectives‚ Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garca Marquez‚ at the same time finding a departure point
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Winfrey – Celebrity/Philanthropist • Florence Nightingale - Nursing • Mother Theresa - Charity • Jonas Salk - Scientist • J. Edgar Hoover – Criminal Justice • Hillary Clinton – Secretary of State‚ former First Lady • Aung San Suu Kyi – Nobel Peace Prize • Gabrielle Douglas – Olympic Gymnast • Martin Luther King Jr.- Civil Rights Activist • Ernesto “Che” Guevara- Revolutionary • Andy Warhol/Jackson Pollack/Norman
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Dr. Fredrick Grant Banting Jamal Murphy Ms. Broley History Grade 10 Frederick Banting was born in Alliston‚ Ontario to a well-established farmer‚ and a mother who was native to Ireland (Notable Biographies‚ 2014). In 1912‚ Banting was registered as a medical student. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in medicine. Later in his life‚ he grew an interest in diabetes. Frederick Banting is the Greatest Canadian because he was the first person to apply insulin on the human
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Filmstrips. (EX 338.19 L84) Related websites • • • • • • • • • • Natural Resources Conservation Services Envirofacts Warehouse United Nations Population Fund Natural Resources Defense Council Top United Nations Environment Programme (2007 Nobel Peace Prize Co-Winner) Ecological footprint and biocapacity Yearly CO2 emissions from 1800 to 2010 http://unfpa.org/ageingreport/
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