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Nobel and parents
Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.
In his autobiographical essay, published in 1973 in Les Prix Nobel ( winners of the prizes are requested to provide such essays ), Lorenz credits his career to his parents, who " were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals ," and to his childhood encounter with Selma Lagerlof's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, which filled him with a great enthusiasm about wild geese.
Born Moira Kinross to Scottish parents, Moira MacTaggert was one of the world's leading authorities on genetic mutation, earning her a Nobel Prize for her work.
* Pearl S. Buck ( 1892 – 1973 ), Nobel Prize-winning author of The Good Earth and other novels about China, lived in Zhenjiang with her missionary parents until the age of 18.
De Kooning's parents, Leendert de Kooning and Cornelia Nobel, were divorced when he was about five years old, and he was raised by his mother and stepfather.
* The parents of Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman lived there before emigrating to the United States.
* Doris Lessing, writer, 2007 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( born in Kermanshah to British parents )
They have included Nobel Peace Prize winners, Peace Corps volunteers, Sufi mystics, Army psychiatrists, members of Congress, school custodial workers, former death row inmates, murder victims ' families, social workers, corporate executives, rabbis, priests, Special Olympics athletes, Olympians, former political prisoners, parents, homeless individuals, folk singers, presidential candidates, and activists for human rights, civil rights, gay and lesbian rights, victims ' rights, prisoners ' rights, Native Americans ' rights and animal rights.

Nobel and returned
The Forum tradition returned in 2006 with a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Theodore Roosevelt.
He returned to academia, enrolling in applied mathematics at Princeton University then shifting departments and receiving a Ph. D. in physics in 1976 under David Gross, the 2004 Nobel laureate in Physics.
Instead, he conducted his research with the Nobel Laureate Lord Rayleigh at Cambridge and returned to India.
They had negotiated a settlement whereby the Nobel Prize money that Einstein anticipated he would soon receive was to be placed in trust for their two boys, while Marić would be able to draw on the interest, but have no authority over the capital without Einstein's permission, After Einstein married his second wife in June, he returned to Zurich to talk to Marić about the children's future, taking Hans Albert on Lake Constance and Eduard to Arosa for convalescence.
In December 2004, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel returned the Steaua României medal, one of the country's highest honors, after President Ion Iliescu awarded Tudor the same honor in the last days of his presidency.
In 1859, the technical management of Nobel Fils was passed to Immanuel's son Ludvig and the former returned to Sweden.
His father Karl Wilhelm Hagelin worked for Nobel in Baku, but the family returned to Sweden after the Russian revolution.
Another of Pelouze's students was the young Alfred Nobel, who returned to the Nobel family's defunct armaments factory and began experimenting with the material around 1860 ; it did, indeed prove to be very difficult to discover how to handle it safely.
About the same time as Mossin returned to NHH from Carnegie Mellon with his doctorate, future Nobel laureate Finn E. Kydland went to the same university for his doctoral studies.
After obtaining his PhD in 1970 from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, he returned to Australia to perform his Nobel Prize-winning research at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra.
Starting his scientific career in nuclear physics from Great Britain, Bhabha returned to India for his annual vacation prior to start of the World War II in September 1939, prompting Bhabha to remain in India, and accepted a post of reader in physics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, headed by Nobel laureate C. V. Raman.
In America he also met the 1913 Nobel Laureate for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore, and in November 1921 returned to India as Tagore's secretary.

Nobel and Sweden
Alfred Nobel's death mask, at the Nobel museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
In 2001, Alfred Nobel's great-grandnephew, Peter Nobel ( b. 1931 ), asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given " in Alfred Nobel's memory " from the five other awards.
This has caused much controversy whether the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is actually a " Nobel Prize "
Fleming ( centre ) receiving the Nobel prize from King Gustaf V of Sweden | Gustaf V of Sweden ( right ) in 1945
Nobel obtained patents for his invention: in England on May 7, 1867 and in Sweden on October 19, 1867.
de Klerk, who was on a brief visit to Stockholm, Sweden to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the Nobel Prize foundation, announced he would immediately return to mourn his dead ex-wife.
The Nobel Prize ceremony took place in Stockholm, Sweden, on the evening of Monday, December 10.
Bardeen did bring all his children to the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.
Alfred Nobel () was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family of engineers.
The discovery of element 102 was first announced by physicists at the Nobel Institute in Sweden in 1957.
Element 102 was first named nobelium ( No ) by its claimed discoverers in 1957 by scientists at the Nobel Institute in Sweden.
* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – George A. Akerlof, Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz
* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Mundell
* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Richard Stone
* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – James Mirrlees, William Vickrey
* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Amartya Sen
* The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Maurice Allais
* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Ronald Coase
* George Stigler is awarded The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Solow
* November 23 – Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1925 )

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