Monday, October 4, 2010
Nobel Prize Week!
It is an exciting week in Sweden and in the scientific community, because this is the week that Nobel Prizes are announced. Over the course of this week, keep up to date on these exciting events by visiting the Nobel Prize website. Pay special attention to the announcement of the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday, October 6. Also this week you have your first on-line assignment: pick a past Nobel Prize winner from the website and learn more about them and why they won the prize; post who you picked and what you learned as a comment on this post. I look forward to reading about what you learned.
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For my assignment, I chose Jules Bordet, who won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in establishing immunology. He was born in Belgium in 1870 and researched antibodies and antigens. He developed the complement-fixation reaction, which led to diagnostic tests. He also researched percussis and created a vaccination against whooping cough. Although he was awarded the Prize in 1919, he did not get it until 1920, because it did not meet all of the conditions in Alfred Nobel's will. He died in 1961.
ReplyDeleteI read about Robert G. Edwards who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his research and discoveries in in vitro fertilization. He started his work in 1950 and it wasn't until 1978 when the first person was born this way. Today over 4 million people have been born this way.
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ReplyDeleteThe first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901 to the French poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme. He was awarded this because it was said that his poetry showed the "rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect". He was awarded by the Swedish Academy.
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I chose Theodore Roosevelt. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906, because he made a peace treaty with Russia and Japan.
ReplyDeleteI picked Alfred Nobel and he sorta invented the Nobel Peace Prize,the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee. Alfred Nobel was interested in social issues. He developed a special engagement in the peace movement. An important factor in Alfred's interest in peace was his relationship with Bertha von Suttner. Those are just some things about who developed the Nobel Peace Prize.
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I learned about the chemist Gerhard Ertl. Gerhard Ertl won the chemistry nobel prize in 2007 for his studies on solid surfaces. Gerhard is located in Germany. He was born in October 10, 1936. I learned all about the Nobel prize nomination committee, and how Gerhard Ertl won the Nobel prize. This award is a honor to recieve, and an amazing accomplishment, and goal.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2002 was Jimmy Carter. He was awarded the Peace Prize for his decades of efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, advance human rights and democracy and promote economic and social devolpment. Jimmy Carter has dedicated his life to working hard and trying to make peace in the world. During his presidentcy, his mediation was an essential contribution to the Camp David Accords. While the Cold War was going on, he renewed human rights in international politics. Jimmy has made major contributions to create peace, and deserved the prize in 2002.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Peace Prize of 2009 was awarded to Barack H. Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".
ReplyDeleteFrederic Passy was the first person(out of two) that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded The Peace Prize in 1901. Frederic Passey was the founder of The French Peace Society and he became a free trader, because he thought that it would bring nations together and lead to the end of war. His goal was international peace, arbitration of disputes in international politics and free trade in goods.
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ReplyDeleteI read the article about the Nobel Peace Prize. I learned that the first Nobel Peace Prize was given to the founder of the Red Cross. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. I also learned a little bit about the person who invented the Nobel Peace Prize. His name was Alfred Nobel. He believed that every interest should be divided into five parts. I also learned that the Nobel Peace Prize are given to five people who are chosen by the Norwegian Storting.
The woman i chose was Maria Sklodowska she was also knowned as Marie Curie. She was born on November 7 1867 in Poland.She was scientifically trained by her father.She met her husband Piere Curie in 1894 and they got married in 1895.She was the first woman to win the 2 noble prize.She won the nobel prize of physics because of her research and her discovery of radium and polonium with her husband.She died on the 4th of july 1934
ReplyDeleteI chose to do the year I was born, and the Nobel Peace prize in 1993 was awarded jointly to Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk for "their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"
ReplyDeleteI chose to read about Marie Curie. She won two Nobel Prizes in her lifetime, and received many other science recognitions. In 1903, with her husband, Curie was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics, for their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of the Prize. In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in recognition of her work in radioactivity.
ReplyDeleteFor this assignment, I chose to write about the first Nobel Peace Prize winners, Jean Henry Dunant (born in Switzerland) and Frederic Passy (born in France). They received the award jointly in 1901 and for their humanitarian work and peace movements. Dunant was chosen for his involvement with the first Geneva Convention and for founding the International Committee of the Red Cross. Passy was chosen for founding and presiding over the first French peace society.
ReplyDeleteIn 1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta won the Nobel Peace Prize because they brought peace to East Timor. Carlos Belo was born on February 3, 1948, and is the spokesperson and is a Bishop in East Timor. José Ramos-Horta was born December 26, 1949. He is the Special Representative of the National Council of Maubere Resistance of East Timor.
ReplyDeleteEmil von Behring received the very first Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1901 for his work on serum therapy, particularly in regards to diphtheria.
ReplyDeleteIn 2008, the Nobel Prize for Physics was awareded to two men. One of the men was Makotot Kobayashi was born in Nagoya Japan in 1994. He won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature. Broken Symmetry is is the process by which a system described in a theoretically symmetrical way ends up in a non symmetrical state.
ReplyDeleteIn 1987 the Japanese Scientist Susumu Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity. Tonegawa was able to explain for the world how parts of the genome of the cell (DNA) is redistributed under its differentiation from an embryonic cell to an antibody producing B lymphocyte (a white blood cell). During the following two years Tonegawa completely dominated this area of research. He could in increasingly greater detail clarify how those parts of the genome which gave rise to antibodies are moved around in order to allow each B lymphocyte to produce its own unique antibody.
ReplyDeleteFor my Nobel Prize winner I chose Emil von Behring. He was the first to win a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He won for his research in serum therapy. This therapy opened a new road in medicine and created a weapon against illness and death.
ReplyDeleteI did my assignment on Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin. These three were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 fro their efforts to create peace in the Middle East. Yasser Arafat was the president of Palestine, and he helped greatly in working towards a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine. Shimon Perez and Yitzhak Rabin were both foreign ministers for Israel. Shimon Peres served as the first prime minister for the National Unity Government in Israel. During his term, Israel withdrew from Lebanon and an economic stabilization plan was created. Yitzhak Rabin was mostly focused on creating ties between Israel and the United States, at one point he was even elected ambassador of the United States.
ReplyDeleteI chose to research Mother Teresa, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was born in 1910 in current Macedonia and grew up to be the "Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity." She did most of her missionary work in India, leaving her convent to work on the streets with the poorest of the poor. In India, she always taught at a convent school. Mother Teresa started the Missionaries of Charity and opened the House for the Dying. Mother Teresa dedicated her life to the sick and dying, no matter how dangerous it was. She even began to work with lepers. She was also awarded the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize. She died in 1997.
ReplyDeleteEmil Von Behring was the first winner Of the Nobel prize in medicine or physiology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1901 for his labor on serum therapy, mainly its use in the treatment against diphtheria. He opened new doors in medical science and made it possible for Doctors to fight illness and deaths with a new weapon known as serum therapy. He was born in Prussia (now Poland) March 15, 1854 and died in Marburg, Germany in March 31, 1917 at age 63
ReplyDeleteIn 1915 Theodore W. Richards received the Nobel Peace Prize in Chemistry. He won the Nobel Piece Prize, because he discovered the atomic weight of many chemical elements. He was born on January 31, 1868 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Then in 1883, he went to Haverford College in Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1885 with a science degree, and then entered Harvard University. After this he got many other degrees at many different schools. He then married Stuart Thayer in 1896. They had one daughter and two sons. He later died on April 2, 1928 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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For this assignment i picked Robert G. Edwards, the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Medicine. He developed the in vitro fertilization procedure, which has so far led to the birth of around 4 million people.
ReplyDeleteI chose Betty Williams who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for founding the Northern Ireland Peace movement with Mairead Corrigan. Betty was the youngest person to win the peace prize at age 33. She was born in Belfast on May 22, 1943.
ReplyDeleteI chose René François Armand (Sully) Prudomme- born March 16, 1839 and died September 6, 1907, at the age of 68. This French poet and essayist won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect". In Paris, his birthplace, Sully had originally planned to go into the engineering field, but he opted to study philosophy and poetry. He was determined to create a “scientific poetry” and for this he was awarded a Noble Prize.
ReplyDeleteThe 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was rewarded three scientists,Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, and Eric Kandel, who decoded the signalling pathways that regulate some of the brain's most important functions. They found out that the neurotransmitters are the primary source that acts like a swith, and that the chemical messengers are sent from one nerve cell to the other across tiny junctions called synapses.
ReplyDeleteI learned about the Nobel Prize given to Robert Edward in Physiology/ Medicine. Robert was born in 1925 in England. After he served in the army he went to school and got his PhD. Robert is getting this award for developing of humans in vitro ferilization therapy. (VFT) I learned that vitro vertilization means when the egg is ferlilized by the egg out of the body.
ReplyDeleteI chose Elizabeth H. Blackburn who won a nobel prize in 2009. She was one of the three scientist who solved how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation. She received her PhD in 1975 from the University of Cambridge, England, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University
ReplyDeleteThe current president of our country, Barack Obama, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year in 2009. He received the award for his diligent efforts in strengthening international diplomacy and the cooperation between people. I was surprised to see that a president could be recognized for such an award.
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Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs were awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 1995. They were awarded the prize for their efforts to stop the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms. Rotblat went to school at the Free University of Poland and the University of Warsaw, Poland in which he received two degrees there. The main purpose of Pugwash Conferences is to bring together from around the world, influential scientists, scholars, and public figures.
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I chose to write about Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Born in Egypt in 1910, Dorothy grew up experiencing the wonders of countries such as Egypt and Sudan, where she learned to love Botany. At the age of ten, Dorothy discovered an interest in chemistry and crystals. She was allowed, along with one other girl, to attend a chemistry class for boys. After her schooling, Dorothy knew she wanted to study chemistry, and possibly biochemistry. Dorothy attended Oxford and Cambridge, and collected money for a x-ray apparatus. She also studied interesting molecules, such as insulin. Dorothy also assisted in the study of penicilin during 1942, and the study of vitamin B in 1948. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.
ReplyDeleteI chose to write about Liu Xiaobo, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. He won the award because of his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental rights in China. Liu Xiaobo worked very hard in a very crime ridden and hard society.
ReplyDeleteI chose Robert G. Edwards. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in medicine. He was born in 1925 and became a British biologist. In 1978 he created the first "test tube baby" using in vitro fertilization. Today over 4 million people are born using this method.
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I looked up the year 1965 for the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965 was awarded jointly to François Jacob, André Lwoff and Jacques Monod for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. Each man contributed to this discovery and each won a part of the prize in 1965.
ReplyDeleteFor the Nobel Prize is decided to write about the peace prize from 2009 won by Barack Obama, he won the peace prize for him strong efforts to strengthen international diplomacy. Obama is the fourth U.S president to win a Nobel Peace Prize.He recieved this also for the U.S. renewed commitment to international organizations, inparticular United Nations. The committee wanted to show the support they had for the approach her is taking towards global problems.
ReplyDeleteI chose Liu Xiaobo. He was born in Changchun Jilin in 1955. He married Liu Xia. Xiaobo's essay Critique on Choices - Dialogue with Le Zehou and Aesthetics and Human Freedom earned him fame. He was a human rights activist who was jailed numerous times for standing up or the rights of the people in China. He was first charged with spreading messages to instigate counterrevolutionary behavior and jailed for 2 years. He was jailed for 1 year for being involved in democracy and human rights movement and voicing publicly the need to redress government's wrongdoings in the student protest of 1989. He was jailed for 3 years for disturbing the social order. And he was jailed for 11 years for spreading a message to subvert the country and authority. Even though he has been in jail so many times he still stands up for the rights of his people that he believes in.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth H. Blackburn won the nobel prize in physiology in 2009 for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
ReplyDeleteRobert G. Edwards got The Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 for development of in vitro fertilization. I am very proud of him and think his achievement will influence the world largely because it gives hopes to these people who were suffered for having some kind of infertility problems. I would thank him for this amazing achievement.
ReplyDeletein 2000, a man by the name of Kim Dae-jung was awarded the nobel peace prize "for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular." Kim served as the 15th president of South Korea and was considered the "Nelson Mandela of Asia"
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I chose to research Hugo Theorell, who won the nobel prize in medicine in 1955. he was born in 1903 in Sweeden, and there he studied medicine at the Karolinska Institute.in 1935 he began his researches on various oxidization enzymes, which helped us to understand many proteins, especially the alcohol dehydrogenases. he was awarded his nobel prize for his work on the nature and effects of oxidization enzymes.
ReplyDeleteBarack Obabma got the nobel peace prize in 2009 for extrodinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.
ReplyDeleteI chose, Shirin Ebadi who was awarded the the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts for democracy and human rights for her country, India.She especially struggled on the rights of women and children.
ReplyDeleteFor the assignment I decided to write about the winner in Physiology/Medicine in 1906. This prize was given to Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal for their research and discoveries in the nervous system. Their discoveries involved the the different highlights about the nervous system, which lead to further observations of the anatomy of the nervous system. Golgi jumpstarted this discovery by inserting a silver solution into nervous tissue which allowed the neurons to be traced throughout the body. Cajal continued this theory by enhancing the quality of what you could see. This revealed that each cell does not come in contact with every other cell; each neuron transfers its information to other cells through nerve fibres that extend across the space and barriers that separate them. The two scientists did not agree on the discoveries of Cajal, however, both were still awarded the Nobel Prize.
ReplyDeleteI learned about how The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 was awarded to both Kary B. Mullis, and Michael Smith. Both of these chemists were awarded for their contribution to discovering methods within DNA-based chemistry. Kary B. Mullis was awarded for his invention, the "polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method." Michael Smith was awarded for his "fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies."
ReplyDeleteI chose to write about Robert G. Edwards because I have always been interested in medicine and how things are developed by doctors and to see that this man helped create in vitro fertilization become as successful as it is today is incredible. Edwards was born in and grew up Bately, United Kingdom and at the time of the award he was affiliated with the University of Cambridge. Edwards described in vitro as a way of treating those who are infertile and unable to produce children. He proceeded to successfully produce, after many failures, a "test tube baby." He had managed to create life in a tiny test tube from human eggs and sperm. Throughout this article I learned that about 4 million babies have been born because of IVF. Because of his discovery of IVF, a new field of medicine has emerged and many people who cannot have children on their own will now be able to create life because of the research of Robert G. Edwards.
ReplyDeleteThis year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo. Xiaobo worked for the necessary human rights of Chinese citizens. He has dedicated much of his time for these rights and did it all non-violently.
ReplyDeleteI read about the recipient of The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Her name is Doris Lessing, and she was originally born in Iran, to British parents. She has written over 50 books, and has explored various aspects of literature. Doris is regarded as "that epicist of the female experience, who with sceptticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny."
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