Nobel filed his first patent, for a gas meter, in 1857.

Nobel demonstrated his explosive for the first time that year, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey, England.

The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.

In 1998, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison called Clinton " the first Black president ", saying, " Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas ".

* Willem Einthoven ( 1860 – 1927 ), a physiologist who built the first practical ECG and won the 1924 Nobel prize in medicine

Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel and was the first safely manageable explosive stronger than black powder.

* 1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.

* 1906 – U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

* 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature " in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings ".

Arne Tiselius developed the first sophisticated electrophoretic apparatus in 1937 and some years later he was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize for his work in protein electrophoresis.

It was discovered in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952, and named after Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, one of the pioneers of nuclear physics.

In the words of Nobel Prize winner Robert E. Lucas, Jr., " For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth ...

The scheme is named for its inventor, Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Richard Feynman, and was first introduced in 1948.

In presenting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934, Professor I. Holmgren of the Nobel committee observed that " Of the three prize winners, it was Whipple who first occupied himself with the investigations for which the prize is now awarded.

He was a nominee to the Nobel prize for the first time in 1949.

In the words of Nobel Prize winner Robert E. Lucas, Jr., " For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth ...

With the exception of three prizes in the first year ( Administratium, Josiah Carberry, and Paul DeFanti ), the Ig Nobel Prizes are for genuine achievements.

In 2010, Andre Geim became the first person to receive both the Nobel and an individual Ig Nobel prize.

He was the first industrial chemist to become a Nobel laureate.

Bardeen first heard the news that the Nobel Prize in Physics had been awarded to him, Brattain and Shockley when he was making breakfast and listening to the radio on the morning of Thursday, November 1, 1956.

He became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in the same field.

The first two were Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, and Linus Pauling, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute to carry a US $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

In May 1975, the strip won Trudeau a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, the first strip cartoon to be so honored.

* In 1975, the strip won Trudeau a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, the first strip cartoon to be so honored.

Yoji Yamada introduced the commercially successful Tora-San series, while also directing other films, notably the popular The Yellow Handkerchief, which won the first Japan Academy Prize for Best Film in 1978.

* 1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937.

On March 1, 2007, the Library of Congress announced that Paul Simon, one of America's most respected songwriters and musicians, was the first recipient of the annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

His mother was of Alsatian origin and the first cousin of Nobel Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer.

McPherson won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his short story collection Elbow Room, becoming the first African-American to win the Pulitzer for fiction.

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.

The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901.

For the first isolation of a restriction enzyme, HindII, in 1970, and the subsequent discovery and characterization of numerous restriction endonucleases, the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber, and Hamilton O. Smith.

Although dissertations on clothing and its functionality are found from the 19th century as colonising countries dealt with new environments, concerted scientific research into psycho-social, physiological and other functions of clothing ( e. g. protective, cartage ) occurred in the first half of the 20th century, with publications such as Flugel's Psychology of Clothes in 1930, and Newburgh's seminal Physiology of Heat Regulation and The Science of Clothing in 1949.

The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Gerty Cori, received it in 1947 for her role in elucidating the metabolism of glucose, important in many aspects of medicine, including treatment of diabetes.

Emil Adolf von Behring ( 15 March 1854 – 31 March 1917 ) was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first one so awarded.

He won the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901 for developing a serum therapy against diphtheria ( this was helped by Kitasato Shibasaburo and worked on with Emile Roux ) and tetanus.

* Merle Lawrence, Professor Emeritus of Otolaryngology, Physiology and Psychology at the University of Michigan, first Director of the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, and the author and co-author of several books.

Golgi was the first Italian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906.

Conceptually, OGSA was first suggested in a seminal paper by Ian Foster called " The Physiology of the Grid ", and later developed by GGF working groups which resulted in a GGF information document, entitled The Open Grid Services Architecture, Version 1. 5.

The university had received more than $ 20 million in funding from different branches of the National Institutes of Health as of 2002 The university's Department of Physiology and the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention received $ 8 million from the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) to establish the first research center in the U. S. specializing in natural preventive medicine for minorities.

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ( pronounced GUY-dah-shek ; September 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008 ) was a Hungarian ˙- Slovak-American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient ( with Baruch S. Blumberg ) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious.

In 1973, Terje Lømo and Tim Bliss first described the now widely studied phenomenon of long-term potentiation ( LTP ) in a publication in the Journal of Physiology.

* The first year is spent on the Basic Sciences, i. e., Anatomy, Physiology, and Biochemistry.

Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk ( 30 October 1895 – 24 April 1964 ) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine ( KI-730 ) – the first commercially available antibiotic ( marketed under the brand name Prontosil ) – for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Baruch Samuel " Barry " Blumberg ( July 28, 1925April 5, 2011 ) was an American doctor and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ) for work on kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious, and the President of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.

He demonstrated deglutition in a goose at the APS meeting in December 1896 and published his first paper on this research in the first issue of the American Journal of Physiology in January 1898.

at the Regional Primate Research Center and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, showed for the first time that monkeys could learn to control the deflection of a biofeedback meter arm with neural activity.

* the description of neurotransmission and the first neurotransmitter, acetylcholine, by Sir Henry Hallett Dale and Otto Loewi, leading to a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1936 ;

1959-1982 ; Chairman of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel on Cardiovascular Diseases and Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the U. S. Army on Environmental Medicine and Physiology involved in successfully sending the first two chimpanzees into space, continuing as a consultant to NASA

A few months later, the first edition of his now much-discussed work, The Mechanism of Human Physiology, was published.

In 1952 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition " for his discovery of " streptomycin ," the first antibiotic active against tuberculosis.

The first sheep-goat chimeras were created by researchers at the Institute of Animal Physiology in Cambridge, England by combining sheep embryos with goat embryos.