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Prizes and other
The New York Times has won 108 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization.
From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway ' season ' rather than the calendar year.
As of 2006, French writers have been awarded more Nobel Prizes in Literature than novelists, poets and essayists of any other country.
As of 2006, French literary people have been awarded more Nobel Prizes in Literature than novelists, poets and essayists of any other country.
For most of the 20th century, French authors had more Literature Nobel Prizes than those of any other nation.
Prizes at other competitions included corn in Eleusis, bronze shields in Argos, and silver vessels in Marathon.
Collectively, artists who have worked at Yaddo have won 66 Pulitzer Prizes, 27 MacArthur Fellowships, 61 National Book Awards, 24 National Book Critics Circle Awards, 108 Rome Prizes, 49 Whiting Writers ' Awards, a Nobel Prize ( Saul Bellow, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 ), and countless other honors.
He was awarded three Stalin Prizes ( 1941, 1942, 1950 ) and numerous other awards.
Writers for the paper have received four other Pulitzer Prizes, most recently the Breaking News Reporting in 2007.
Seven graduates have won Nobel Prizes – more than any other secondary education institution in the United States and the world — and six have won Pulitzer Prizes.
The Awards Council also makes an annual Presentation of Fruit to the Lord Mayor of London, organises the annual City Food Lecture in Guildhall ( established in 2000 ) and awards Fruit Show Prizes at the Cherry and Soft Fruit Show and National Fruit Show, and, among other activities, supports scholarships and research.
Among the alumni of the College are at least two Prime Ministers, two Nobel Laureates ( five Nobel Prizes including prep school alumni ), an Olympic Gold medalist and many other notable persons from different walks of life including science, law, the military, business, politics, literature and sports.
Iowa Writers ' Workshop alumni ( most recently Paul Harding in 2010 ) have won seventeen Pulitzer Prizes, as well as numerous National Book Awards and other literary honors.
One of the primary criticisms of ARWU's methodology is that it is biased towards the natural sciences and English language science journals over other subjects. Moreover, the ARWU is known for " relying solely on research indicators ", and " the ranking is heavily weighted toward institutions whose faculty or alumni have won Nobel Prizes ": it does not measure " the quality of teaching or the quality of humanities.
According to Burchard: " Prizes were offered — silken doublets, pairs of shoes, hats and other garments — for those men who were most successful with the prostitutes.
As with other Pulitzer Prizes, a committee of jurors narrows the field to three nominees, from which the Pulitzer Board generally picks a winner and finalists.
The other Nobel Prizes were to be awarded by Swedish bodies ( Swedish Academy, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Karolinska Institutet ) that already existed, whereas the responsibility for the Peace Prize was given to the Norwegian Parliament, specifically " a committee of five persons to be elected " by it.
Prizes that were once only consolation prizes on the NBC series and other game shows became the prizes on the board.
Prizes are also provided for the best ranking athletes in other competition categories.
Five Viking authors have been awarded Nobel Prizes for Literature and one received the Nobel Peace Prize ; Viking books have also won numerous Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and other important literary prizes.
) News journalists have been finalists for three other Pulitzer Prizes, but did not win: Toles ( 1985 and 1996, for Editorial Cartooning ) and James Heaney ( 1993, for Investigative Reporting ).
" Prizes " for beating the obstacle course include a BMX bicycle, television set, an NES console, and several other gifts, ending with a exotic vacation -- though it can prove very difficult to get the best " ending " by completing the last obstacle.

Prizes and prizes
The Foresight Institute has several running prizes, including the annual Feynman Prizes given in experimental and theory categories, and the $ 250, 000 Feynman Grand Prize for demonstrating two molecular machines capable of nanoscale positional accuracy and computation.
With the exception of three prizes in the first year ( Administratium, Josiah Carberry, and Paul DeFanti ), the Ig Nobel Prizes are for genuine achievements.
* Eureka Prizes, annual Australian science prizes presented by the Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
* the funds for the prizes are continually acquired by donations, while the Nobel Prizes come from the revenue of Alfred Nobel's fortune.
On Saturday, October 20, 1962 the award of Nobel prizes to John Kendrew and Max Perutz, and to Francis Crick, James D. Watson, and Maurice Wilkins was ' satirised ' in a short sketch with the Nobel Prizes being referred to as ' The Alfred Nobel Peace Pools '; in this sketch Watson was called " Little J. D.
It is one of three prizes that constitute the " Nobel Prizes of Engineering "-the others being the Academy's Russ and Gordon Prizes.
The brief description of the prizes awarded by the Academy are taken from the " priser ( Prizes )" section of their web site.
Schock bequeathed half of the funds for prizes in the arts and sciences, and beginning in 1993, Schock Prizes () instituted by his will are awarded every two or three years.
On Saturday 20 October 1962 the award of Nobel prizes to John Kendrew and Max Perutz, and to Crick, Watson, and Wilkins was satirised in a short sketch in the BBC TV programme That Was The Week That Was with the Nobel Prizes being referred to as ' The Alfred Nobel Peace Pools.
Prizes included round-the-world air tickets, the paying of related expenses, as well as monetary prizes.
Morison also garnered numerous literary prizes, military honors, and national awards from both foreign countries and the United States, including two Pulitzer Prizes, two Bancroft Prizes, the Balzan Prize, the Legion of Merit, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
* Prizes — Trade cards were some of the earliest " prizes " packaged in retail products.
In addition to various advisory and administrative functions it operates a number of research institutes and awards many prizes, including the Lorentz Medal in theoretical physics, the Leeuwenhoek Medal in microbiology, and the Dr. A. H. Heineken Prizes.
On Saturday 20 October 1962 the award of Nobel prizes to John Kendrew and Max Perutz, and to Crick, Watson, and Wilkins was satirised in a short sketch in the BBC TV programme That Was The Week That Was with the Nobel Prizes being referred to as ' The Alfred Nobel Peace Pools '.
Kavli has also noted his intent that the Prizes distinguish themselves from the Nobel prizes in science.
They were joined during the decade by the Primavera, Alfaguara, and Lara Prizes, the return of the Café Gijón and the Biblioteca Breve prizes.
The prizes were established in 1988 and were known as the Science Book Prizes until 1990 when they were sponsored by Rhône-Poulenc and became known as the Rhône-Poulenc Prizes for Science Books.
Between 2000 and 2006, following the merger of Rhône-Poulenc with Hoechst AG to form Aventis, the prizes were renamed the Aventis Prizes for Science Books.
And he received The Special Commemorative Prize of The Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes in 1990, the inaugural year for the prizes again.
5 research results won national prizes, namely 1 Follow-up Prize and 1 Third Prize in the National Natural Science Awards, 2 Follow-up Prizes and 1 Third Prize in the National Achievement Awards in Science and Technology.

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