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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.
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* 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.
In his Nobel Prize lecture, he remarked that the success didn't make up for his girlfriend breaking up with him shortly before: " I was sagging as I walked out to my little silver Honda Civic.
* Art, Truth & Politics — Harold Pinter delivers Nobel Prize in Literature lecture in which he explains the Sandinista conflict and condemns the U. S.
* 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.
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.
Nobel and Lewis
There is evidence that he used the Nobel nominating and reporting procedures to block a Nobel Prize for Lewis in thermodynamics by nominating Lewis for the prize three times, and then using his position as a committee member to write negative reports.
In 1926 the chemist Gilbert N. Lewis coined the name photon for these particles, and after 1927, when Arthur H. Compton won the Nobel Prize for his scattering studies, most scientists accepted the validity that quanta of light have an independent existence, and Lewis ' term photon for light quanta was accepted.
Famous alumni include Nobel Laureate in nuclear physics Sir John Cockcroft, aeroplane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaster bomber Roy Chadwick, while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna Neumann, Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson.
* May 20 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2004 )
** Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1918 )
While Kirkwood's tombstone has a long list of awards and positions, including the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry, the Richards Medal, and the Lewis Award, Onsager's tombstone, in its original form, simply said " Nobel Laureate.
Under the influence of Lewis, William Giauque ( who had originally wanted to be a chemical engineer ) went on to become a professor of chemistry at Berkeley and won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero, studies guided by the third law of thermodynamics.
Lewis was a 1970 Nobel nominee for literature, and in 2005 was voted 10th as Wales ' ' greatest-ever person ' in a BBC Wales poll.
" Lewis, a liberal who in 1930 had won the Nobel Prize in literature, portrayed a genuine American dictator on the Hitler model.
It is the birthplace of Sinclair Lewis, a novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and Sauk Centre served as the inspiration for Gopher Prairie, the fictional setting of Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street.
* Sinclair Lewis -- American novelist and playwright, 1930 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, first American to win the Prize for Literature
In his Nobel Prize Lecture of 1930, Sinclair Lewis said that " Dreiser's great first novel, Sister Carrie, which he dared to publish thirty long years ago and which I read twenty-five years ago, came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman ".
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