2009-03-16

Some Nobel Prize Winners

1. Sir Clair Lewis - Born: February 7, 1885
First Nobel Prize-winning American Novelist ( Elmer Gantry; Main Street )

2. Toni Morrison - Born: February 18, 1931
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American Author ( Beloved; Song of Solomon; Jazz )

3. John Steinbeck - Born: February 27, 1902
Nobel Prize-winning American Author ( The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; East of Eden )

4. Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen - Born: March 27, 1845
Nobel Prize-winning German Physicist who discovered x-rays

5. Walther Bothe - Born: January 8, 1891
German Physicist, Nobel Prize-winning

6. Martin Kuther King, Jr. - Born: January 15, 1929
American Civil Rights Leader and winner of Nobel Peace Prize

7. Max Theiler - Born: January 30, 1899
American Microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1951 for his work in combating yellow fever

8. Anatole Franco - Born: April 16, 1844
Nobel Prize-winning, French Writer

9. Max Planck - Born: April 23, 1858
Nobel Prize-winning German Physicist, originator of Quantum Theory

10. Sir George Thomson - Born: May 3, 1892
British Physicist, Nobel Prize winner in 1937 for his demonstration of electron diffraction

11. Pierre Curie - Born: May 15, 1859
French Physicist and Nobel Prize winner, co-discoverer of radium ( with his wife Marie )

12. Bertrand Russell - Born: May 18, 1872
English Philosopher, Mathematician, and Nobel Prize Winner

13. John Douglas Cockroft - Born: May 27, 1897
English Physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1951 for his work in developing Radar

14. Patrick White - Born: May 28, 1912
Australian novelist, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature

15. Thomas Mann - Born: June 6, 1875
Nobel Prize-winning German Author ( The Magic Mountain; Budenbrooks; Doktor Faustus )

16. Robert Mulliken - Born: June 7, 1896
Nobel Prize-winning American Chemist and Physicist

17. Francis Crick - Born: June 8, 1916
English scientist who shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Structure of DNA

18. Saul Bellow - Born: June 10, 1914
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning Canadian Author ( Herzog; Humboldt's Gift )

19. Sir Ernest Boris Chain - Born: June 19, 1906
German-born Biochemist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on isolating penicillin

20. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins - Born: June 20, 1861
English Biochemist, join recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of Vitamins

21. Luigi Pirandello - Born: June 28, 1867
Nobel Prize-winning Italian Author and play wright ( Six characters in search of on Author )

22. Czeslaw Milosz - Born: June 30, 1911
Nobel Prize-winning Polish-born Poet ( A Poem for the End of the Century; So Little; Esse )

23. John Northorp - Born: July 5, 1891
American Biochemist whose work with Crystallized enzymes won him the Nobel Prize in 1946

24. Dalai Lama ( Lhamo Dhondrup ) - Born: July 6, 1935
Fourteen Dulai Lama, Tibetan Sipritual Leader, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner

25. Pablo Neruda - Born: July 12, 1904
Chilean Nobel Prize-winning Poet

26. Rosalyn Yalow - Born: July 19, 1921
Nobel Prize-winning American Physicist

27. Ernest Hemingway - Born: July 21, 1899
American Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning Author ( The Sun also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls; A Farewell to Arms )

28. Elias Canetti - Born: July 25, 1905
British Nobel Prize-winning Author ( Crowds and Power )

29. George Berned Shaw - Born: July 26, 1856
Irish Nobel Prize-winning Dramatist ( Pygmalion )

30. Giosue Carducci - Born: July 27, 1835
Italian Nobel Prize-winning Poet

31. Irene Joliot-Curie - Born: September 12, 1897
French Nuclear Physicist, join winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, daughter of Nobel Prize winner Pierre and Marie Curie

32. Lord Robert Cecil - Born: September 14, 1864
English founder of the League of Nations and its President ( 1923-45 ), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

33. Sir Howard Walter Florey - Born: September 24, 1898
Australian Nobel Prize-winning Pathologist

34. Jimmy Carter - Born: October 1, 1924
39th US President ( 1977-81 ) winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ( 2001 )

35. Jane Addams - Born: September 6, 1860
American Social Worker who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931

36. Edward Appleton - Born: September 6, 1892
English Physicist and 1947 Nobel Prize winner after whom the Appleton Layer of the ionsphere is named

37. Frederic Mistral - Born: September 8, 1830
French Poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( 1904 )

38. Arthur Compton - Born: September 10, 1892
American Physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics ( 1927 )

39. Isidor Isaac Rabi - Born: July 29, 1898
Austrian Nobel Prize-winning Physicist who explored the atom

40. Milton Friedman - Born: July 31, 1912
American Nobel Prize-winning Economist

41. Sir Alexander Fleming - Born: August 6, 1881
Nobel Prize-winning Scottish Bacteriologist who discovered Penicillin

42. Ralph Bunche - Born: August 7, 1904
American United Nations under-Secretary who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for developing and implementing the mediation principles that new govern all UN Peacekeeping efforts

43. John Galsworthy - Born: August 14, 1867
English Nobel Prize-winning Author ( The Forsyte Saga )

44. Salvadore Quasimodo - Born: August 20, 1901
Nobel Prize-winning Italian Poet

45. Emil Kocher - Born: August 25, 1841
Swiss Surgeon who won the Nobel Prize in 1909 for his pioneering work on the thyroid gland

46. Sir Hans Adolf Krebs - Born: August 25, 1900
German Biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1953 for his discovery of co-enzyme A

47. Mother Teresa ( Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu ) - Born: August 27, 1910
Yogoslavian Missionary of Calcutta, India, who won the Nobel Prize in 1971

48. George Hoyt Whipple - Born: August 28, 1878
American Astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1934

49. Ernest Rutherford - Born: August 30, 1871
New Zealand-born English Physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 for discovering the atomic nucleus

50. George Beadle - Born: October 22, 1903
American Biologist who won a Nobel Prize in medicine for his work in Genetic Research

51. Sir William Ramsay - Born: October 2, 1852
Scottish Chemist, first British winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

52. Fridtjof Nansen - Born: October 10, 1861
Norwegian Arctic explorer and Humanitarian who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922

53. Eugene O'Neill - Born: October 16, 1888
American Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright ( Long Days Journey into Night; Desire Under the Elims; Mourning Becomes Electra )

54. Rudyand Kipling - December 30, 1865
Nobel Prize-winning Indian-born English Author and Poet ( The Jungle Book; Captain's Caurageus; Gunga Din; If )

55. Marie Curie - Born: November 7, 1867
Nobel Prize-winning Polish-born French Physicist and Chemist who co-discovered the elements polonium and radium and coined the term Radioactivity

56. Albert Camus - Born: November 7, 1913
Nobel Prize-winning French Philosopher and Author ( The Stranger )

57. Sir J.J. Thomson - Born: December 18, 1856
Nobel Prize-winning English Physicist who discovered the electron

58. Frank Billings Kellogg - Born: December 22, 1856
Nobel Peace Prize-winning US Secretary of States

59. Winston Churchill - Born: 1874
Nobel Prize-winning Britain

60. Daw Aung San Su Kyi - Born: 1945
Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1991, Myanmar

61. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela - Born: 1918
Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1993, South Africa

Source: World History

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