Among the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature more than half are practically unknown to readers of English.

While `` better late than never '' may have certain merits, the posthumous award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to the late Dag Hammarskjold strikes me as less than a satisfactory expression of appreciation.

Dr. Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, has been less ambiguous, whether you choose to agree with him or not.

Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell chemistry ( Time, Cover, July 14, 1958 ).

Robert Hillyer, the poet, writes in his introduction to this brief animal fable that Mr. Burman ought to win a Nobel Prize for the Catfish Bend series.

This has caused much controversy whether the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is actually a " Nobel Prize "

* The Nobel Prize in Postage Stamps

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Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature " for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times ".< ref >

* 1884 – Otto Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* 1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of " Reverence for Life ", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa ( then French Equatorial Africa ).

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

While there he collaborated with American physician Charles Claude Guthrie in work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs as well as the head, and Carrel was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for these efforts.

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* 1872 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1942 )

* 1912 – Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

* 1918 – Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

* Robert Koch Biography at the Nobel Foundation website

* Short Autobiography on the Nobel Foundation website

* Naguib Mahfouz article from Nobel Prize website

*" The RNA world " ( 2001 ) by Sidney Altman, on the Nobel prize website

*" Exploring the new RNA world " ( 2004 ) by Thomas R. Cech, on the Nobel prize website

* Nobel Lecture The Rare Gases of the Atmosphere from Nobelprize. org website

It is also available on the Nobel Prize website.

* Biography on Nobel Prize website

* " Autobiography: Leonid Kantorovich ", Nobel Prize website

* Charles Richet Biography on Nobel Prize website

* August Krogh biography on Nobel Prize website

Blackett-Biography website of the Nobel Foundation 1948

* Biography in Nobel website

* Bridgman's Nobel Prize website

* Autobiography from the Nobel foundation website

* Autobiography at the Nobel Prize website

Attempting to get author Rowling considered for the prestigious award, he created a website launched in July 2003 called the " Nobel Prize For Jo ", urging the global community to participate.

* Nobel website biography

His website NuclearRisk. org has been endorsed by a number of prominent individuals including a former Director of the National Security Agency, Stanford's President Emeritus, and two Nobel Laureates.

* Biography at Nobel Foundation website

* Autobiography at the website of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1986

* Nobel Lecture The Use of Organomagnesium Compounds in Preparative Organic Chemistry from Nobelprize. org website

* Kornberg's Nobel Lecture The Biologic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid from Nobelprize. org website

23 July 1997, on the website of the Nobel Prize Foundation.