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Braunschweig University of Technology

Current and former members of the TU Braunschweig include mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Nobel Laureate Klaus von Klitzing, SAP-CEO Professor Henning Kagermann, truck engineer and entrepreneur Heinrich Büssing of Büssing AG, as well as renowned architect Meinhard von Gerkan.

Bryan Malessa

In reviewing The Flight (Harper Perennial), set on the Eastern Front (World War II), The Irish Times stated "With this story...Bryan Malessa joins the ranks of Nobel Laureate Günter Grass, Rachel Seiffert and others in taking on the major preoccupations of post-war German literature...and the role of literature in history and memory."

California Council on Science and Technology

As of July 2008, seventy-six members and fellows are also members of the National Academies, six are Nobel laureates, nine are National Medal of Science recipients and two are recipients of the National Medal of Technology.

Children's Peace Monument

Beneath the main structure lies a bronze crane that works as a wind chime when pushed against a traditional peace bell from which it is suspended, the two pieces having been donated by Nobel Laureate in Physics Hideki Yukawa.

Christian Bohr

Christian Harald Lauritz Peter Emil Bohr (1855–1911, both in Copenhagen) was a Danish physician, father of the physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr, as well as the mathematician Harald Bohr and grandfather of another physicist and nobel laureate Aage Bohr.

Commercial Internet eXchange

The focus of this group was either military/government or research and education communications, especially support for the separately funded NSF supercomputing initiatives that started after Nobel laureate Ken Wilson's testimony to Congress in the 1980s.

Danny Bernardi

Bernardi has cited his main influences on his writing as being the Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, playwrights such as Stephen Berkoff and Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) as well as such diverse sources such as The Clash, Billy Childish, Benjamin Zephaniah.

Gustaf Dalén

Nils Gustaf Dalén (30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, the founder of the AGA company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dalén light.

James D. Jamieson

Jamieson continued his education at the Rockefeller University after receiving his MD (1960), earning his PhD in 1966 and completing his post-doctoral work with Nobel Laureate (1974) George Palade.

Jeremiah Jenks

Today, he is also remembered for his association with Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek.

Jeremy Bray

He also worked as a research officer at the Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge University, working with future Nobel Laureates Professor Sir Richard Stone and Terry Barker on the Cambridge Growth Project.

Kalundborg

Kalundborg is the birthplace of the Norwegian Nobel laureate author Sigrid Undset, who lived there during the first two years of her life, before her parents emigrated to Norway in 1884.

Kesarbai Kerkar

Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) is said to have been very fond of Kerkar's singing.

L'Extase matérielle

'L'Extase matérielle' is an essay written by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio.

Old Times

Old Times is a play by the Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.

Revolutionary Organization of Armed People

Of the various Guatemalan guerrilla groups, ORPA seemed the least violent, partly because it was led by the urbane Rodrigo Asturias, the son of Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemala's Nobel Laureate in literature.

Robert H. Grubbs

Robert Howard Grubbs (born February 27, 1942 Possum Trot, Kentucky) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Rodney H. Banks

In 1980, he received his Ph.D. in inorganic/physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for Nobel laureate and fellow Perkin medal winner Glenn Seaborg on the synthesis and characterization of volatile actinide compounds.

Ross Honeywill

The critically acclaimed Lamarck's Evolution was launched by Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty and Dr John Long at the 2008 Melbourne Writers Festival.

Ruthenocene

Ruthenocene was first synthesized in 1952 by Geoffrey Wilkinson, a Nobel laureate who had collaborated in assigning the structure of ferrocene only a year earlier.

S. Narasinga Rao

Rao had the distinction of studying under R.Parthasarathy, Gopinath Kartha and David Harker along with Nobel Laureates, Dr. Herbert Hauptman and Sir John Eccles.

Sayonara Nuclear Power Plants

Among the founding members are Nobel laureate Kenzaburō Ōe, historian Shunsuke Tsurumi, and authors Hisae Sawachi, Katsuto Uchihashi and Keiko Ochiai.

Sev’yan I. Vainshtein

In the late 1990s, the well-known Russian filmmaker Leonid Kruglov visited Vainshtein with the proposal to produce a film about his expeditions into Tuva, using as a ‘red line’ Vainshtein’s correspondence with American Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, who had written him a letter in 1981 requesting his help in securing a visa to visit Tuva, which, was not granted during Feynman’s lifetime.

Sweeney's Flight

Sweeney's Flight (1992) is a portfolio of American photographer Rachel Giese's work, inspired by, and accompanied by extracts from, Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's Sweeney Astray.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

The system's banned list includes some novels that were written by National Book Award winners, Nobel laureates, and Pulitzer Prize winners and some books of paintings made by famous artists.

Une lettre de J. M. G. Le Clézio

"Une lettre de J. M. G. Le Clezio"is an essay written by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio.

William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History

After Brendler's death in 1986, William W. Scott (a colleague of Nobel Laureate Charles Huggins at the University of Chicago) became curator of the museum.


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Aaron Director

Director founded the Journal of Law & Economics in 1958, which he co-edited with Nobel laureate Ronald Coase, that helped to unite the fields of law and economics with far-reaching influence.

Academic structure of the Australian National University

The John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) was formed in 1948 as a result of the vision of Nobel Laureate Howard Florey and Prime Minister John Curtin.

Alexander E. Shilov

In 1952-1955 he was working with Nobel Laureate Nikolay Semyonov toward his Ph.D. at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

Ambridge Mann

Famous people from Ambridge Mann include Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, who grew up in a brick bungalow near the river on Arthur Street.

An American Dilemma

An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a 1944 study of race relations authored by Swedish Nobel-laureate economist Gunnar Myrdal and funded by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Büchner flask

It is commonly thought to be named after the Nobel Laureate, Eduard Buchner, but it is actually named after the industrial chemist Ernst Büchner.

Büchner funnel

It is commonly thought to be named for the Nobel Laureate, Eduard Buchner (without umlaut), but it is actually named for the industrial chemist Ernst Büchner.

Chicago Theological Seminary

Further the building that had served as a seminary for decades became home to the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago and the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, an institution named in part after Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, a public figure controversial primarily among collectivist academics.

Chris Field

Christopher Field, Nobel laureate director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology

Craig S. Smith

He is married to Anna Esaki, daughter of Nobel laureate Dr. Leo Esaki, and they have two sons named Sky and True.

Delbert Philpott

At the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago he established the first electron microscope facility, before moving to the Marine Biological Lab and Institute for Muscle Research in Woods Hole, MA in 1952, where he was Head of Electron Microscopy, directing research projects under Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi in the winter and for the Marine Biological Lab at Woods Hole during the summer.

East Barnet School

The Project Faraday science facilities were opened by Nobel Laureate Sir Tim Hunt F.R.S. on 5 October 2010.

Facel Vega FVS

The HK500 was the car being driven on January 2, 1960 by French publisher Michel Gallimard when he lost control and crashed outside of Villeblevin, killing both himself and his Nobel laureate passenger Albert Camus.

Frank Nabarro

At the University of Bristol his work under Professor Nevill Francis Mott, a future Nobel Laureate in physics, earned him the Oxford degree of BSc (then equivalent to an MSc elsewhere).

Global Peace Index

The study is the brainchild of Australian entrepreneur Steve Killelea and is endorsed by individuals such as Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama, archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, economist Jeffrey Sachs, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, Jan Eliasson and former US president Jimmy Carter.

Gonna Serandi

Towards the west is famous Nanoor (birthplace of Chandidas), Bolpur-Santiniketan (home of Visva Bharati University founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and of Amartya Sen).

Gordon St. Angelo

In 1996, St. Angelo helped create a foundation with Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose Friedman to promote and help establish educational choice in America.

Hari Seldon

At the 67th World Science Fiction Convention in Montréal, Québec, Canada, Paul Krugman, the Nobel Laureate in Economics, mentioned Hari Seldon.

Hason Raja

He gained international recognition few years after his death, when Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore mentioned him in his lectures at Oxford University.

Heinz Rudolf Kunze

In 2002, Kunze narrated Piktors Verwandlungen, a 40 minute piece of the German band Anyone's Daughter after a fairy tale by German author Hermann Hesse, during a festival in honoring the late Nobel laureate in his home town Calw.

Hermann Müller

Paul Hermann Müller (1899–1965), Swiss chemist, and Nobel laureate in Physiology and Medicine

Joliot

Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French radiochemist and Nobel laureate, daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie

Leonard Knight Elmhirst

In America he also met the 1913 Nobel Laureate for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore, and in November 1921 returned to India as Tagore's secretary.

Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute

Nobel Laureate George A. Olah serves as Director and G. K. Surya Prakash serves as Scientific Co-Director and holds the George A. and Judith A. Olah Nobel Laureate Chair of Chemistry.

Magnus Gutke

The lyrics are a selection from the Nobel laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez best known work Silver and I (Platero y yo).

Mart, Texas

E. Donnall Thomas, 1990 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine who showed that it was possible to transplant bone marrow to save the lives of patients dying from blood cancer and other blood disorders.

Michael H. Robinson

Dr. Robinson received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wales, in 1963, and his doctorate in zoology, in 1966, from Oxford University, where he studied under Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen.

NATO School

The US Army also established a European Theatre Intelligence School, and one of the early instructors (1946 – 47) was Nobel Laureate Henry Kissinger, who was US Secretary of State between 1973 and 1977.

Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

The Prize was founded by Nobel laureate Paul Greengard and his wife Ursula von Rydingsvard in honor of Greengard's mother, Pearl Meister Greengard, who died giving birth to him.

Peithologian Society

Although Peithologian's alumni included such prominent names as Columbia president Nicholas Murray Butler (Class of 1882), Nobel laureate Hermann Muller (Class of 1910), and publisher Alfred A. Knopf (Class of 1912), both it and Philolexian suffered declining membership after the turn of the century.

Rafael Rey

In 1987 he joined the pro-market Liberty Movement of Nobel laureate writer Mario Vargas Llosa which became part of the 1988 established broad liberal-conservative Democratic Front FREDEMO.

Ranjan Roy Daniel

T He carried out research in the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, headed by the Nobel laureate C. F. Powell, using nuclear emulsions exposed to cosmic rays at high altitudes.

Richard Ernst

Richard R. Ernst (born 1933), Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate

Roberto Cossa

Playwright Osvaldo Dragún seized the opportunity to organize an Teatro Abierto ("Open Theatre") movement, calling on Cossa and fellow playwrights Luis Brandoni, Jorge Rivera López and Pepe Soriano, as well as receiving support from prominent intellectuals such as Nobel laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and writer Ernesto Sábato.

Ryan J. Orr

He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2005 from Raymond Levitt, William Richard Scott, and Douglass North (nobel laureate).

Sara Larkin

Under his tutelage she became acquainted with Nobel Laureate, Yasunari Kawabata, and other National Living Treasures of Japan.

Scots College, Wellington

Recent projects on campus have been the science block, opened in 2006 by Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse and the Aitken (Admin/Reception) block in 2009.

Sohan Qadri

Over his long career, Qadri has interacted with a wide array of cultural figures including Surrealist painter René Magritte, Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll, and architect Le Corbusier.

Supachai Panitchpakdi

In 1973, he completed his doctoral dissertation under supervision of Professor Jan Tinbergen, the first Nobel laureate in economics.

The Pea-Pickers

Not quite a critical response, but in his autobiography Flaws in the Glass, Australian Nobel Laureate Patrick White, writing of his experience of the Second World War says "Otherwise I had dried up. There were stirrings of what I had it in me to write if there were ever a peace, but that didn't seem likely. So I read. I read The Bible, literally from cover to cover. I read The peapickers and was filled with a longing for Australia, a country I saw through a childhood glow".

Theodor Mommsen

Fellow Nobel Laureate (1925) Bernard Shaw cited Mommsen's interpretation of the last First Consul of the Republic, Julius Caesar, as one of the inspirations for his 1898 (1905 on Broadway) play, Caesar and Cleopatra.

Tumkur University

Prof. Kurt Wüthrich, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2002), Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Professor of Structural Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA and Professor of Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Twórczość

Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska has contributed frequently to Twórczość from 1949 down to the present day.

Vast right-wing conspiracy

Two other figures who have used the phrase are Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman and Journalist Joe Conason.

Younan Xia

Dr. Xia received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University (with Professor George M. Whitesides) in 1996, his M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry from University of Pennsylvania (with the late Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2000) in 1993, and his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1987.

Yukawa

Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981), FRSE (湯川 秀樹, Yukawa Hideki?, 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) né Ogawa (小川?), was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate

Zeeman

Pieter Zeeman, a Dutch physicist and 1902 Nobel laureate, discoverer of the Zeeman effect

Zelenogradsk

Patrick White, a 1973 Nobel laureate, visited Cranz in the early 1930s "during the early stages of my love affair with Germany".