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A look at the achievement of 200 of the most famous, important or interesting Nobel prize winners of the 20th century -- arranged chronologically and illustrated by a portrait and in some cases explanatory diagrams. An appendix lists all winners.

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PublisherFirefly Books, The Limited

ISBN-101554074169

ISBN-139781554074167

eBay Product ID (ePID)65982824

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Number of Pages320 Pages

Publication NameNobel : a Century of Prize Winners

LanguageEnglish

SubjectModern / 20th Century, General

Publication Year2008

TypeNot Available

AuthorMichael Worek

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, Référence, History

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight0 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width7.5 in

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LCCN2009-292012

ReviewsThis handy reference profiles about 200 of the most famous past winners (by prize and by year). A great fact-checker to consult and learn from., This volume offers a general readership brief profiles of 308 of the approximately 800 people and organizations who have received the Nobel Prize for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics since its inception in 1901. The selected profiles are organized by decade each a page long, with an additional page accompanying some of the science honorees that illustrates a major discovery. Chapter conclusions contain a complete list of winners from that decade. A brief profile of Alfred Nobel is included., This volume offers a general readership brief profiles of 308...people and organizations who have received the Nobel Prize., Nobel: A Century of Prize Winners groups winner in annotated lists by decade and then by year... It's all fascinating.

Dewey Edition22

Target AudienceTrade

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal001.4/4

Lc Classification NumberAs911

Table of ContentTable of Contents Introduction 1901-1909 Selected Profiles of Nobel Laureates Sully Prudhomme Jean Dunant Emil Fischer Svante Arrhenius Henri Becquerel Pierre Curie Ivan Pavlov Robert Koch Bertha von Suttner Ramón y Cajal Theodore Roosevelt Rudyard Kipling Ernest Rutherford Guglielmo Marconi Complete List of Nobel Laureates 1901-1909 1910-1919 Selected Profiles of Nobel Laureates Wilhelm Wien Marie Curie Allvar Gullstrand Maurice Maeterlinck Elihu Root Alexis Carrel Rabindranath Taore Henri La Fontaine Theodore Richards Robert Bárány International Committee of the Red Cross Max Planck Fritz Haber Erik Karlfeldt Johannes Stark Jules Bordet Woodrow Wilson Complete List of Nobel Laureates 1910-1919 1920-1929 Selected Profiles of Nobel Laureates Anatole France Albert Einstein Frederick Soddy Niels Bohr Fridjtof Nansen Frederick Banting Gustav Hertz George Bernard Shaw Austen Chamberlain Aristide Briand Arthur Compton Charles Wilson Henri Bergson Adolf Windaus Thomas Mann Frank Kellogg Complete List of Nobel Laureates 1920-1929 1930-1939 Selected Profiles of Nobel Laureates Thomas Morgan Harold Urey Luigi Pirandello James Chadwick Irène Joliot-Curie Peter Debye Eugene O''Neil Carlos Lamas Norman Haworth Paul Karrer Robert Ceci Pearl Buck Erinco Fermi Ernest Lawrence Gerhard Domagk Complete List of Nobel Laureates 1930-1939 1940-1949 Selected Profiles of Nobel Laureates Wolfgang Pauli Artturi Virtanen Gabriela Mistral Alexander Fleming Cordell Hull Hermann Hesse Emily Balch John R. Mott Edward Appleton Carl & Gerty Cori André Gide Patrick Blackett Arne Tiselius T.S. Eliot Egas Moniz Complete List of Nobel Laureates 1940-1949 1950-1959 Selected Profiles of Nobel Laureates Bertrand Russell Ralph Bunche John Cockcroft Ernest Walton Glenn Seaborg Edwin McMillan Max Theiler Winston Churchill George Marshall Linus Pauling Ernest Hemingway UN High Commissioner for Refugees Lester Pearson John Bardeen Albert Camus Boris Pasternak Arthur Kornberg Complete List of Nobel Laureates 1950-1959 1960-1969 Selected Profiles of Nobel Laureates Albert Lutuli Willard Libby Dag Hammarskjöld James Watson John Steinbeck Martin Luther King Jr. Jean-Paul Sartre Charles Townes UNICEF Peyton Rous Luis Alvarez René Cassin Samuel Beckett Murray Gell-Mann International Labour Organization Ragnar Frisch Jan Tinbergen Complete List of Nobel Laureates 1960-1969 1970-1979 Selected Profiles of Nobel Laureates Alexander Solzhenitsyn Paul Samuelson Dennis Gabor Wilbur Sutherland Pablo Neruda Willy Brandt Simon Kuznets Heinrich Böll Henry Kissinger Le Duc Tho Gunnar Myrdal Andrei Sakharov Milton Friedman Vicente Aleixandre Mother Teresa Amnesty International Menachem Begin Allan Cormack Complete List of Nobel Laureates 1970-1979 1980-1989 Selected Profiles of Nobel Laureates Adolfo Esquivel James Tobin Gabriel Marquez S. Chandrasekhar Barbara McClintock William Golding Lech Walesa Desmond Tutu Elie Wiesel James Buchanan Susumu Tongegawa Tenzin Gyatso United Nations Peacekeeping Forces Complete List of Nobel Laureates 1980-1989 1990-1999 Selected Profiles of Nobel Laureates Octavio Paz Edward Thomas Georges Charpak Mikhail Gorbachev Frederik de Klerk Toni Morrison Nelson Mandela Yasser Arafat Mario Molina Robert Lucas Carlos Belo Dario Fo Günther Grass Complete List of Nobel Laureates 1990-1999 2000-2007 Selected Profiles of Nobel Laureates Jack Kilby Zhores Alferov V.S. Naipaul Kofi Annan Koichi Tanaka Daniel Kahneman Jimmy Carter Shirin Edadi Irwin Rose Elfriede Jelinek Robert J. Aumann Mohamed ElBaradei Al Gore Doris Lessing Complete List of Nobel Laureates 2000-2007 Index