Bibliograph

Nobel, a century of prize winners, selected and edited by Michael Worek

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Label

Nobel, a century of prize winners, selected and edited by Michael Worek

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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collective biography

Illustrations

mapsillustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Nobel

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

578119751

Responsibility statement

selected and edited by Michael Worek

Sub title

a century of prize winners

Summary

Presents the lives and accomplishments of more than two hundred Noble Prize winners, from the initial 1901 prizes to the 2009 winners, along with a complete listing of the eight hundred individuals and organizations that have won the prize

Table Of Contents

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 -- Ramon y Cajal -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Rudyard Kipling -- Complete list of Nobel laureates 1901-1909. -- 1910-1919 selected profiles of Nobel laureates: -- Ernest Rutherford -- Guglielmo Marconi -- Wilhelm Wien -- Marie Curie -- Allvar Gullstrand -- Maurice Maeterlinck -- Elihu Root -- Alexis Carrel -- Rabindranath Tagore -- Henri La Fontaine -- Theodore Richards -- Robert Barany -- International Committee of the Red Cross -- Max Planck -- Fritz Haber -- Erik Karlfeldt -- Johannes Stark -- Jules Bordet -- Woodrow Wilson -- Complete list of Nobel laureates 1909-1919. -- 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 -- Complete list of Nobel laureates 1920-1929. -- -- 1930-1939 selected profiles of Nobel laureates: -- Frank Kellogg -- Thomas Morgan -- Harold Urey -- Luigi Pirandello -- James Chadwick -- Irene Joliot-Curie -- Peter Debye -- Eugene O'Neill -- Carlos Lamas -- Norman Haworth -- Paul Karrer -- Robert Ceci -- Pearl Buck -- Enrico Fermi -- Ernest Lawrence -- Gerhard Domagk -- 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 -- Andre 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 Hammarskjold -- James Watson -- John Steinbeck -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Charles Townes -- UNICEF -- Peyton Rous -- Luis Alvarez -- Rene Cassin -- Samuel Beckett -- Murray Gell-Mann -- International Labour Organization -- Complete list of Nobel laureates 1960-1969. -- 1970-1979 selected profiles of Nobel laureates: -- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn -- Paul Samuelson -- Dennis Gabor -- Earth Sutherland -- Pablo Neruda -- Willy Brandt -- Simon Kuznets -- Heinrich Boll -- 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 Tonegawa -- Tenzin Gyatso -- Complete list of Nobel laureates 1980-1989. -- 1990-1999 selected profiles of Nobel laureates: -- United Nations Peacekeeping orce -- Octavio Paz -- Edwad Thomas -- Georges Charpak -- Mikhail Gorbachev -- Frederik de Klerk -- Toni Morrison -- Nelson Mandela -- Yasser Arafat -- Mario Molina -- Robert Lucas -- Carlos Belo -- Dario Fo -- Complete list of Nobel laureates 1990-1999. -- 2000-2009 selected profiles of Nobel laureates. -- Jack Kilby -- Zhores Alferov -- V.S. Naipaul -- Kofi Annan -- Koichi Tanaka -- Daniel Kahneman -- Jimmy Carter -- Shirin Ebadi -- Irwin Rose -- Elfriede Jelinek -- Robert Aumann -- Mohamed ElBaradei -- Al Gore -- Doris Lessing -- Paul Krugman -- Martti Ahtisaari -- Harald zur Hausen -- Charles Kao -- Barack Obama -- Elizabeth Blackburn -- Complete list of Nobel laureates 2000-2009

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