The Ig Nobel Web Page Awards are intended to celebrate the unusual, the imaginative and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. Includes list of winners, and information on publications and annual ceremony. http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-top.html
Extractions: HotAIR > Ig Nobel Home 2004 Ig Nobel Peace Prize winner Daisuke Inoue the inventor of karaoke is serenaded by Nobel Laureates Dudley Herschbach (left), Richard Roberts and William Lipscomb, and by Karen Hopkin. Dr. Hopkin is, among other things, famed for creating the Studmuffins of Science Calendar. (Click on image to enlarge it) " Last, but not least, there are the Ig Nobel awards. These come with little cash, but much cachet, and reward those research projects that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think' "
Economics 1998 Official nobel Foundation website, with press release (including summary of his contributions to welfare economics), and extensive (8000word) autobiography. http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1998/
2002 Ig Nobel Prize In Chemistry The Ig nobel prizes are awarded every year by the journal The Annals of ImprobableResearch It was a mad crush of Ig nobel winners, real nobel winners, http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/IgNobel/
Extractions: The Ig Nobel prizes are awarded every year by the journal The Annals of Improbable Research for scientific work that "cannot or should not be reproduced". It is a very silly prize, given at a very silly ceremony by a very silly journal. It is, in fact, the highest scientific honor of the silly category in the world. And it is without doubt the highest honor for which the Periodic Table Table is eligible. The Annals of Improbable Research's website lists all the winners, past and present . There was a live webcast of the awards ceremony on October 3, 2002, and there will be an archive version of the video at some point (but not yet). On the Friday after Thanksgiving there will be an audio broadcast of the ceremony on NPR's Science Friday with Ira Flatow : You can listen to an audio archive of the ceremony I arrived in Boston on Wednesday with Ed Pegg , the original popularizer of the Periodic Table Table website. We spent a delightful afternoon at the Peabody Museum visiting their delightful collection of minerals, and their truly amazing glass flowers. They have helpfully sorted their mineral collection by chemical makeup, all the native elements first, then all the sulfides, and so on. This allowed me to efficiently photograph all their native elements in one place: Most convenient. These pictures will form the foundation for a whole new category of samples on my website: External specimens, defined as things too interesting not to write up, but not physically present in the table. Such samples will be clearly identified and not counted towards the total number of samples in the table, so you can remain confident that all the regular samples you see documented on this website are physically present in or near the Periodic Table Table.
Extractions: HOME SITE HELP ABOUT SEARCH ... EDUCATIONAL The Bank of Sweden (Sveriges Riksbank) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was first awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen in 1969 for their development and application of dynamic models in the analysis of economic processes. The Prize has since been awarded to works ranging from methodologies and theories used in studying the efficient use of economic and financial resources, to macroeconomic performance and economic policy, development economics, international trade and the role of information. Laureates
Nobel Enterprises Specialising in the manufacture of Energetic Materials and Nitrocellulose. http://www.nobel-enterprises.com/
Physics 1988 Lederman, Schwartz and Steinberger for the discovery of the muon neutrino and for the neutrino beam method. http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1988/
Extractions: HOME SITE HELP ABOUT SEARCH ... EDUCATIONAL "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino" Leon M. Lederman Melvin Schwartz Jack Steinberger 1/3 of the prize 1/3 of the prize 1/3 of the prize USA USA USA Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Extractions: TRANSCRIPT Italian playwright Dario Fo has won the Nobel prize for literature. The Swedish Academy cited the 71-year-old writer and actor for using laughter to open our eyes to injustices in society. His controversial works were denounced by the Vatican and barred from the United States. Two theater experts discuss his contribution to world literature, and his capacity for "epic clowning." A RealAudio version of this segment is available. NEWSHOUR LINKS: Former Nobel Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta Browse the NewsHour's coverage of OUTSIDE LINKS The Nobel Foundation ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The art of Italian playwright Dario Fo is rooted in a very old comic tradition as John Tatlin of Independent Television News reports. A playwright with a very political message. JOHN TATLIN, ITN: Dario Fo, acting here in one of his own plays, was described the judge as emulating the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden. He's an unexpected choice, not least because he's a playwright but a popular one. He's more widely known than some recent Nobel Prize winners. He's still writing copiously, but his heyday was in the 70's when he wrote "The Accidental Death of an Anarchist," and "Can't Pay, Won't Pay." They both had strong political messages. The Nobel prize could help to keep his popularity alive. There's a large body of work, 70 plays, to choose from, and wherever they're performed he loves to get personally involved.
Ig Nobel Prize - Popular Science Net Awarded every year at Harvard University for achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced. http://www.popular-science.net/nobel/ignobel.html
Extractions: by Wendy Northcutt THE IG-NOBEL PRIZE THE 2004 AWARDS: CLICK HERE ! Each year, at a gala ceremony in Harvard's Sanders Theatre, ten Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded for " achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced. " The Prizes are physically handed to the winners by genuinely bemused genuine Nobel Laureates. 1200 splendidly eccentric spectators watch the winners step forward to accept their Prizes.
Home - International Campaign To Ban Landmines ICBL is a network of more than 1200 nongovernmental organizations in 60 countries, working for a global ban on landmines. Co-laureate of the 1997 nobel Peace Prize. Provides campaign status, events, newsletter and current news including Nairobi Summit. http://www.icbl.org/
Extractions: REGISTER NOW for the 6th Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty taking place this year from 28th November to 2nd December in Zagreb, Croatia. (14 Sep 05, last updated: 15 Sep 05) From 5 to 9 September 2005, Ambassador Satnam Singh, the ICBL Diplomatic Advisor, visited China and Mongolia to take up with the two governments the question of an early accession to the Mine Ban Treaty. In capitals of both countries, Ambassador Singh met with high level officials connected with the mine ban policy. (14 Sep 05, last updated: 14 Sep 05) Raising the Voices East Africa 2005 was conducted successfully from August 28th to September 3rd 2005 at Ranch on the LakeCountry Club in Kampala, Uganda. Margaret Arach Orech, ICBL Co-chair of the Working Group on Victim Assistance and Olivier Le Blanc, Capacity Builder Officer from Mines Action Canada (Young Professional International Mine Action Program) organized and facilitated this 5 days advocacy training workshop with 10 participants coming from Eritrea, Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda. Raising the Voices East Africa was the first workshop of its kind in the region. (14 Sep 05, last updated: 14 Sep 05)
Introduction nobels desire was to offer a prize to those who during the preceding year, Beginning this year, the nobel Foundation wishes to create some posthumous http://members.shaw.ca/teacher_lib/
Extractions: Students' Page Karen Lindsay Introduction Alfred B. Nobel (1833-1896) was the Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and established in his will the Nobel prizes for Peace, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Economics. Nobels desire was to offer a prize "to those who during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind." This WebQuest is designed for grade eleven Core French in British Columbia. It has been developed as an interdisciplinary project, using technology, research methods, critical thinking and French language skills.
Extractions: List of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. Year Name Topics Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff "for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions Hermann Emil Fischer "for his work on sugar and purine syntheses" Svante August Arrhenius "for his electrolytic theory of dissociation (see ion Sir William Ramsay "for his discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer "for his work on organic dyes and hydro aromatic compounds" Henri Moissan "for his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine , and for the electric furnace named after him" See Moissan electric furnace Eduard Buchner "for his biochemical research and his discovery of cell -free fermentation Sir Ernest Rutherford "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances Wilhelm Ostwald "his work on catalysis and for his investigations into chemical equilibria and rates of reaction Otto Wallach "for his work in the field of alicyclic compounds" Maria SkÅodowska-Curie "for her discovery of radium and polonium , and her study of radium" Victor Grignard "for his the discovery of the Grignard reagent Paul Sabatier "for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds" Alfred Werner "for his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules Theodore William Richards "for his determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of elements" Richard Martin Willst¤tter "for his research on plant pigments"
American Experience | A Brilliant Madness A Brilliant Madness The story of nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash . A Brilliant Madness The story of nobel Prize wining mathematician John http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/
Physics 1933 Awarded jointly to Erwin Schr¶dinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory. http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1933/
William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech This is a copy of the acceptance speech by William Faulkner for the nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/faulkner/faulkner.html
Extractions: December 10, 1950 "All his life William Faulkner had avoided speeches, and insisted that he not be taken as a man of letters. 'I'm just a farmer who likes to tell stories.' he once said. Because of his known aversion to making formal pronouncements, there was much interest, when he traveled to Stockholm to receive the prize on December 10, 1950, in what he would say in the speech that custom obliged him to deliver. Faulkner evidently wanted to set right the misinterpretation of his own work as pessimistic. But beyond that, he recognized that, as the first American novelist to receive the prize since the end of World War II, he had a special obligation to take the changed situation of the writer, and of man, into account." Richard Ellmann I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my worka life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand where I am standing.
Home Page Of Robert Mundell more portraits 1999 nobel Laureate nobel Lecture CEMA2000 Lecture. Dept.of Economics Columbia University New York, NY10027 USA. Tel (212) 854 3669 http://www.columbia.edu/~ram15/
Extractions: ram15@columbia.edu C.V. Bibliography s="na";c="na";j="na";f=""+escape(document.referrer) Bob and Nicholas Nicholas at 10 months Nicholas at 1 1/2 Nicholas at 2 1/2 ... Valerie and Nicholas (2) Major Works Selections of my writings are split up into the four categories listed below. The titles of the publications are already there, and the complete articles or chapters will become available as they are digitalized. International Economics Monetary Theory Other Articles on Theory Recent Policy Essays Other Websites of Interests Please also visit The works of Robert A. Mundell
Alfred Nobel Short profile geared toward middle school students. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWnobel.htm
Extractions: In 1866 Nobel produced what he believed was a safe and manageable form of nitroglycerin called dynamite. He established his own factory to produce it but in 1864 an explosion at the plant killed Nobel's younger brother and four other workers. Deeply shocked by this event, he now worked on a safer explosive and in 1875 came up with gelignite.
Physics 1996 Awarded to David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, and Robert C. Richardson. The press release contains a good (technical) discussion of the superfluidity of helium3. http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1996/