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

Chandrasekhar reviews this work in his Nobel Prize lecture.

* On Stars, Their Evolution and Their Stability, Nobel Prize lecture, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, December 8, 1983.

During a 1961 lecture for undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology, Richard Feynman, a celebrated physics teacher and Nobel Laureate, said this about the concept of energy:

Hayek is the second-most frequently cited economist ( after Kenneth Arrow ) in the Nobel lectures of the prize winners in economics, particularly since his lecture was critical of the field of orthodox economics and neo-classical modelization.

The prizes are presented by genuine Nobel laureates, originally at a ceremony in a lecture hall at MIT but now in Sanders Theater at Harvard University.

After hearing a lecture on the subject of Lovelock's results, they embarked on research that resulted in the first published paper that suggested a link between stratospheric CFCs and ozone depletion in 1974, and later shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( with Paul Crutzen ) for their work.

* Walter Kohn's Nobel lecture

* Rudolph Marcus ' Nobel lecture

* Robert Mulliken's Nobel lecture

* Linus Pauling's Nobel lecture

* John Pople's Nobel lecture

* Feynman's Nobel Prize lecture describing the evolution of QED and his role in it

* Art, Truth & Politics — Harold Pinter delivers Nobel Prize in Literature lecture in which he explains the Sandinista conflict and condemns the U. S.

* Nobel Prize lecture on osmotic pressure and chemical equilibrium ( pdf )

* Friedman, Milton, Nobel lecture: Inflation and unemployment 1977

* Ryoji Noyori Nobel lecture ( 2001 )

* Ryoji Noyori Nobel lecture video ( 2001 )

* Nobelprize. org posts Mr Kilby ’ s Nobel lecture

* In Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio's 2008 Nobel Prize lecture, Le Clézio referred to Rabelais as ".... the greatest writer in the French language ".

The existence of the antiproton with − 1 electric charge, opposite to the + 1 electric charge of the proton, was predicted by Paul Dirac in his 1933 Nobel Prize lecture.

In his Nobel lecture, Lewis said " Ultimately, comparisons of the complexes throughout the animal kingdom should provide a picture of how the organisms, as well as the genes have evolved.

* 1988 Nobel lecture in Medicine

Jung introduced the concept as early as the 1920s, but gave a full statement of it only in 1951 in an Eranos lecture and in 1952, published a paper, Synchronizität als ein Prinzip akausaler Zusammenhänge ( Synchronicity — An Acausal Connecting Principle ), in a volume with a related study by the physicist ( and Nobel laureate ) Wolfgang Pauli.

Years later, Kim reflected on these events during his 2000 Nobel Peace Prize lecture.