* The Running Man ( 1982 ) was a book by Stephen King depicting a game show in which a contestant flees around the world from " hunters " trying to chase him down and kill him ; it has been speculated that the book was inspired by Robert Sheckley's The Prize of Peril.

It is based on Robert Sheckley's The Prize of Peril, published in 1958.

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 ).

* 1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* 1900 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

In 1958, George Beadle and Edward Tatum received the Nobel Prize for work in fungi showing that one gene produces one enzyme.

On 23 October 1958, Boris Pasternak was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize.

It is possible that the 1958 Nobel Prize prevented Pasternak's imprisonment due to the Soviet State's fear of international protests.

* 1881 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* 1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

He won the Nobel Prize for this achievement in 1958.

He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men ( 1946 ) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.

* 1864 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer, politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

Eisenstein's film, Ivan The Terrible, Part I, presenting Ivan IV of Russia as a national hero, won Joseph Stalin's approval ( and a Stalin Prize ), but the sequel, Ivan The Terrible, Part II was criticized by various authorities and would go unreleased until 1958.

This protein was the first to have its structure resolved by X-ray crystallography by Max Perutz and John Kendrew | Sir John Cowdery Kendrew in 1958, which led to them receiving a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962.

* Dominique Pire Nobel Peace Prize ( in 1958 )

* August 8 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( died 1958 )

* July 10 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* March 19 – Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( d. 1958 )

* April 25 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

** Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* October 22 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* December 24 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* September 14 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1958 )

He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 1958 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968.

" 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 ).

Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom ( Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999 ), argues that third world development must be understood as the expansion of human capability, not simply the increase in national income per capita, and thus requires policies attuned to health and education, not simply GDP.

* Andersonville ( novel ), Pulitzer Prize winning 1956 novel by MacKinlay Kantor

He has been honored with a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, a J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, a TED Prize ( named for the confluence of technology, entertainment and design ), and many other awards and honors.

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

Fire and Craig C. Mello received the 2006 Nobel Prize for discovering the role of RNA interference ( RNAi ), in the silencing of gene expression.

* Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ( 1932-2007 ), physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1991 ;

* René Cassin ( 1887 – 1976 ), jurist and judge ; a recipient of the 1968 Nobel Peace Prize

In 1954, Compañía ‘ Ron Bacardi ’ S. A. paid him homage when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature of his novel The Old Man and the Sea ( 1952 ), in which he honored the Company by mentioning its Hatuey beer.

Dartmouth has also graduated three Nobel Prize winners: Owen Chamberlain ( Physics, 1959 ), K. Barry Sharpless ( Chemistry, 2001 ), and George Davis Snell ( Physiology or Medicine, 1980 ).

* Computer and Communications Prize ( NEC Foundation ), Japan ( 2002 )

Nobel Prize winner Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin wrote Dry Valley ( 1912 ), which is considered to be influenced by gothic literature.

Willy Brandt ( 1913 – 1992 ), German Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1971

* Allen J. Scott ( born 1938 ), winner of Vautrin Lud Prize in 2003 and the Anders Retzius Gold medal 2009 ; author of numerous books and papers on economic and urban geography, known for his work on regional development, new industrial spaces, agglomeration theory, global city-regions and the cultural economy.

* Doreen Massey ( born 1944 ), key scholar in the space and places of globalization and its pluralities, winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.

Beside this, Pasteur, along with Robert Koch ( who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1905 ), founded bacteriology.

Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

The opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians ( ICM ) is where the awards are presented: Fields Medals ( two to four medals are given since 1936 ), the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize ( since 1986 ), the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize ( since 2006 ), and the Chern Medal Award ( since 2010 ).