First synthesized in 1874 by Othmar Zeidler, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939 by the Swiss scientist Paul Hermann Müller, who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his efforts.

It has received many awards, including Best Picture at the 2001 Japanese Academy Awards, Golden Bear ( First Prize ) at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival, and the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

The literary renaissance of the late 19th century ( which included a Nobel Prize for Frédéric Mistral ) was attenuated by the First World War, when Occitan speakers spent extended periods of time alongside French-speaking comrades.

" Ironically ( because, it appears, no one had noticed his allusion ) Sonata No. 7 received a Stalin Prize ( Second Class ), and No. 8 a Stalin Prize First Class, even though the works have been subsequently interpreted as representing Prokofiev " venting his anger and frustration with the Soviet regime.

In 1993 he graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with Last Round ( Sidste Omgang ), which won the jury and producers ' awards at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools, and First Prize at Tel Aviv.

* First to discover that normal cellular genes can be converted to cancer genes ( Nobel Prize in Medicine, J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus, 1989 )

* First to discover prions, a unique type of infectious agent responsible for a variety of neurodegenerative diseases ( Nobel Prize in Medicine, Stanley B. Prusiner, 1997 )

Nasser awarding Professor Naguib Pasha Mahfouz the First Class Order of Merit and the State Prize of Distinction for Science, 1960

New York: Enigma Books, 2008, First edition 1948 ( 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner ).

* Norman Maclean: " Billiards Is a Good Game ": Gamesmanship and America ’ s First Nobel Prize Scientist ; reprinted in Lapham's Quarterly

In addition, the district has produced several high school winners of the international First Step to the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded in Poland.

In Czechoslovakia Heyrovský was awarded the State Prize, First Grade, in 1951, and in 1955 the Order of the Czechoslovak Republic.

His recordings received a First Prize from the Académie Charles Cros ( for Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, " From the New World ") and the Grand Prix du Disque ( for George Enescu ’ s Dixtuor for Winds ).

In his final examinations, he took a First, winning The John Locke Prize for his performance in the philosophy papers, in which he outscored A. J. Ayer.

** First Prize: Vladimir Ashkenazy

The primary winner took the " First Grand Prize " ( called the agréé ) and the " Second Prizes " were awarded to the runners-up.

* 1925-Odette Pauvert-First " First Grand Prize " obtained by a woman

* 1805-Victor Dourlen (" first " First Grand Prize ) and Ferdinand Gasse (" second " First Grand Prize )

* 1806-Guillaume Bouteiller (" first " First Grand Prize ) and Gustave Dugazon (" second " First Grand Prize )

* First Appearance: " Dogged " ( 2 / 26 / 05 )

The Fourth Military Region maintained only a Territorial Defense Company headquartered in Korhogo The Fifth Military Region was formerly known as the Western Operational Zone, a temporary command created to respond to the security threat caused by the First Liberian Civil War.

* The Department of Defense releases a casualty update: Aerographer's Mate First Class Edward Thomas Earhart, 26, Salt Lick, Ky., is confirmed dead.

Furthermore, the Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization was also a First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, and the head of the Warsaw Treaty Combined Staff also was a First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR.

** First battle between the South African Defense Force and the armed wing of SWAPO-PLAN takes place at Ongulumbashe in Northern Namibia.

In 1971, he initiated a political power struggle that led, with Soviet support, to his replacing Ulbricht as First Secretary of the SED Central Committee and as chairman of the National Defense Council.

It operates from inside the Department of Defense, but is editorially separate from it, and its First Amendment protection is safeguarded by the United States Congress, to whom an independent ombudsman, who serves the readers ' interests, regularly reports.

Unique among the many military publications, Stars and Stripes operates as a First Amendment newspaper and is part of the newly formed Defense Media Activity.

It adds " Such a group was Marine Fighting Squadron 211 of Marine Aircraft Group 21 and the Wake Detachment of the First Defense Battalion, United States Marine Corps, The units which comprised the garrison at Wake Island.

Additionally, wing personnel manage the southeastern air combat maneuvering instrumentation range and provide mission-ready F-15, F-16 and F-22 air dominance forces in support of the Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD )/ First Air Force contingency plans.

The company won contracts with the Department of Defense during the First and Second World wars that aided its growth.

Today, Fort Hood has nearly 65, 000 soldiers and family members and serves as a home for the following units: Headquarters III Corps ; First Army Division West ; the 1st Cavalry Division ; 13th Sustainment Command ( formerly 13th Corps Support Command ); 89th Military Police Brigade ; 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade ; 21st Cavalry Brigade ( Air Combat ); 4th Combat Aviation Brigade ; and the 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade.

In August 1943, he was appointed deputy commander for both the Eastern Defense Command, a continental defense command for the eastern United States, and First United States Army at Fort Jay, Governors Island in New York City, taking the place of General Hugh A.

* Eastern Defense Command ( co-headquartered with First Army until October 1943 )

The 1982 Lebanon War (, Milhemet Levanon Harishona, " the first Lebanon war "), (, Al-ijtiyāḥ, " the invasion "), called Operation Peace for Galilee ( Mivtsa Shlom HaGalil or Mivtsa Sheleg ) by Israel, and later known in Israel as the Lebanon War and First Lebanon War, began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon.

** First United States Department of Defense workshop on quantum computing and quantum cryptography is organized by United States Army physicists Charles M. Bowden, Jonathan P. Dowling, and Henry O. Everitt ; it takes place in February at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

* First ( 36 / 18-bit words ): 701 ( Defense Calculator )

On September 24, 1954, the First National People's Congress confirmed Peng's position, and appointed him Defense Minister and one of the ten vice-ministers of the State Council.

First aboard were Marine Base Defense Aircraft Group 41 and VMF-113.

* Bataan First Line of Defense ( Layac, Dinalupihan )

First launched in 1970, the company built all 23 reconnaissance satellites in the Defense Support Program ( DSP ), which are the principal components of the Satellite Early Warning System currently used by the United States.

Sha ' ab was captured by the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) on July 19, 1948 during the First Arab-Israeli War.

Bright was a co-founder of the Alliance Defense Fund which funds high profile litigation cases on behalf of Christians ' First Amendment rights.

The ( רב-סמל ( רס " ל Rav samal ( Rasal ), Sergeant First Class is the lowest non-commissioned officers ( נגדים ) rank in the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ); above the ( סמל ראשון ( סמ " ר Samal rishon ( Samar, Staff Sergeant ). Because the IDF is an integrated force, they have a unique rank structure.

First, in an interview with CNN, Miller had a dispute with Judy Woodruff, Wolf Blitzer, and Jeff Greenfield when they questioned him on his speech, particularly on whether he had misinterpreted the context and full content of Kerry's votes, and the fact that Dick Cheney, as Defense Secretary, had opposed some of the same programs he attacked Kerry for voting against.