could be a good lesson for other Asian and African countries. 4. If we limit our focus on physics and chemistry only‚ in the 20th century the role of Indian men of science was not minor. In terms of one of the highest honours‚ namely the Nobel Prize‚ in the first half of the 20th century the achievements of Indian scientists were far better than those from that Latin America‚ Africa and most of the Asian countries3. There is no doubt that we need the subject as it deals with the heritage
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A Bautiful Mind © 2002 by Raymond Weschler Major Characters John Nash……………………………………………………………….Russell Crowe One of the greatest mathematical geniuses of the 20th century‚ who won the Nobel Prize in 1994‚ studied and taught at Princeton University‚ and suffered from the mental disease of schizophrenia for most of his adult life (See note on schizophrenia below). Alicia…………………………………………………………….…………….Jennifer Connelly John’s beautiful‚ intelligent and loving wife who stayed with him through
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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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he 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
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silver 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
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THE ROLES OF ENTREPRENEURS IN THE SOCIETY Introduction Entrepreneurship is the capacity and willingness to develop‚ organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make a profit. However‚ some school of thought would define an entrepreneur as one who manages the factors of production in order to first satisfy or meet human needs and not primarily for the desire to make profit. The most obvious example of entrepreneurship is the starting of new businesses. Entrepreneurs
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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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Horace Engdahl‚ who select the winner of Nobel literature award every year‚ said that “We talk in the same way about everything which is published‚ and literary criticism is poorer for it. Literary criticism and teaching were limited today.”[ Flood Alison “Nobel judge fears for the future of western literature” theguardian.com‚ 7 Oct 2014 ] Both of them considered the limitation of criticism. Therefore
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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
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"No man’s genius‚ however shining‚ can raise him from obscurity unless he has industry‚ opportunity and also a patron to recommend him." —PLINY‚ the Younger The term ’Brain-drain’ has recently come into vogue for describing the flight of talent from our country to another. Often‚ it is loosely employed to describe all migration of educated and talented persons to countries abroad in search of better careers even though their services may be badly needed in their native land‚ and thus‚ this exodus
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