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.

the Blair Purchase Prize for watercolor, Art Institute of Chicago ; ;

Besides Schlesinger, the Justice Department's Information Director, Edwin Guthman, has won a Pulitzer Prize ( for national reporting ).

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.

There is no prize awarded for mathematics, but see Abel Prize.

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 >

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.

The most lucrative award an architect can receive is the Pritzker Prize, sometimes termed the " Nobel Prize for architecture.

" Other prestigious architectural awards are the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, the Alvar Aalto Medal ( Finland ), the Carlsberg Architecture Prize ( Denmark ), and the Governor General's Awards ( Canada ).

Other honors: J-D Warnier Prix d ’ Informatique, ACM Systems Software Award, NEC Computers & Communication Foundation Prize, Funai Foundation Prize, Lewis Branscomb Technology Award, ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.

The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union.

Domagk received the 1939 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his efforts.

Category: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winners

Category: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winners

Winner of the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award I, Coriander, by Sally Gardner is a fantasy novel in which the heroine lives on the banks of the Thames.

* Africa: The Golden Baobab Prize runs an annual competition for African writers of Children's stories.

She has written more than fifty novels including the much loved " Flambards " series of pony stories, for which she won both the 1969 Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association and the 1970 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers.

* 1979-Courte-Queue, book design and illustrations by François Olivier, was awarded the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize ( translated by Alan Brown in 1980 as Cliptail ).

* Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize

Category: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winners

Dr. Joseph Murray of Harvard Medical School and chief plastic surgeon at Children's Hospital Boston from 1972-1985 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for his work on immunosuppression.

On television, Fierstein was featured as the voice of Karl, Homer Simpson's assistant, in the " Simpson and Delilah " episode of The Simpsons and the voice of Elmer in the 1999 HBO special based on his children's book The Sissy Duckling, which won the Humanitas Prize for Children's Animation.

Although best known for television series, he won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for the novel Conrad's War ( Blackie, 1978 ).

The series was nominated in 1987 for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming ; it was also nominated that year for a Humanitas Prize in the category of Non-Prime Time Children's Animated Show.

* 1990 Prize of the Netherlands Children's Jury for the novel The figure-skater

* Xola eta basurdeak (" Xola and the Wild Boars ", Erein 1996 )-won the Basque Children's Literature Prize en 1997

Category: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winners

It was named Children's Book of the Year at the 2001 British Book Awards, and was also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, again the first time this had happened to a children's book.

Waterstones maintains and supports various literary awards, including the Waterstones Children's Laureate, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Waterstones 11 and The Guardian First Book Award.

Waterstones continued the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize under its own brand and since 2005, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize has attempted " to uncover hidden talent in children's writing " by awarding authors with no more than two previously published books ( adult or children's fiction ).

The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a literary award that annually recognises one fiction book written for children or young adults ( at least age seven ) and published in the United Kingdom.

In 2006 Young established the Lulu Blooker Prize, a book prize for books that began as blogs.

It depicts Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate Gallery and the usual chairman of the Turner Prize jury, and satirises Young British Artist Tracey Emin's installation, My Bed, consisting of her bed and objects, including knickers, which she exhibited in 1999 as a Turner Prize nominee.

* Young Adult Novel Prize of the Atlantic Writers Competition

Young Jury Prize for Best Feature Film – Together.

Young Jury Prize for Best Feature Film – Lilya 4-ever.

However, through its association with the Young British Artists and the Turner Prize during the 1990s, its popular usage, particularly in the UK, developed as a synonym for all contemporary art that does not practice the traditional skills of painting and sculpture.

The novel The Young Guard, which received the State Prize of the USSR in 1946, focuses on an underground Komsomol group in Krasnodon, Ukraine and their struggle against the fascist occupation.

The media success of the Turner Prize contributed to the success of ( and was in turn helped by ) the late 1990s phenomena of Young British Artists ( several of whom were nominees and winners ), Cool Britannia, and exhibitions such as the Charles Saatchi-sponsored Sensation exhibition.

Through its association with the Young British Artists and the Turner Prize during the 1990s, in popular usage, particularly in the UK, " conceptual art " came to denote all contemporary art that does not practice the traditional skills of painting and sculpture.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Francis Brett Young, The Portrait of Clare

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: E. H. Young, Miss Mole

* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Horton Foote, The Young Man From Atlanta

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Brian McGuinness, Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig ( 1889 – 1921 )

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Forrest Reid, Young Tom

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin

* A. S. Young, co-recipient of Rank Prize for Optoelectronics in 1976.

It was awarded the Commission ’ s Prize and the Young Writers Prize for one of the best books written by an unpublished young writer.

Before he was exposed, Schön had received the Otto-Klung-Weberbank Prize for Physics and the Braunschweig Prize in 2001 as well as the Outstanding Young Investigator Award of the Materials Research Society in 2002, which was later rescinded.

Hendrik Bouman has received many awards for his 25 recordings of which there are more than 45 re-editions, for DGG / Archiv, EMI, REM / Radio Canada, Baroque-Nouveau, notably: the Edison Prize ( Netherlands ), 3 Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Artist of the Year by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie and the career Prize for Young Artists from the Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia ( Germany ), Le Grand Prix National du Disque, 6 Diapason d ’ Or, Répertoire Recommandé, 9-Repertoire ; Diapason 5 ( France ), and the Early Music Award, Gramophone Award ( England ).

* Young Medal and Prize, for distinguished research in the field of optics, including work related to physics outside the visible region.