Artist: Sofia Gisberg.

Henrik Pontoppidan did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

Karl Gjellerup did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

The International Committee of the Red Cross was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the efforts to take care of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war and their families during World War I. Full name: International Committee of the Red CrossNative name: Comité international de la Croix RougeFounded: 1863, in Geneva, SwitzerlandDate awarded: 10 December 1917…

Still Human https://youtu.be/FH1sxAd7xVU “Losing a leg made me view myself as the least valuable person in the world” In 1998, Makur Diet in war-damaged South Sudan lost his leg to a bullet. Despairing for his future, Makur was close to committing suicide, until he was given a prosthetic leg. Makur realised that he now had…

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Charles Glover Barkla’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, June 1, 1920 Let me first say how much I regret that the British are not more fully represented at this celebration. When the invitation came to hand Professor Sir had already entered into several important engagements which could not conveniently be cancelled, and unfortunately…

Nobel Lecture, June 3, 1920 Characteristic Röntgen Radiation Pdf 39 kB

Since the Red Cross has figured four times in the award of the Nobel Peace Prize (1917, , and ), as well as in the award to (1901), and has therefore been made the subject of various presentation speeches and Nobel lectures which give details of its inception, history, and activities, the following brief summary…

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