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Albert Lutuli – Speed read
Speed read
Albert Lutuli was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Albert Lutuli Full name: Albert John LutuliBorn: 1898, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)Died: 21 July 1967, Stanger, South AfricaDate awarded: 23 October 1961 Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize laureate At the dawn of the 1960s, European colonial powers…
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Speed read: Raising self-awareness
Speed read
The immune system is charged with the task of recognizing and destroying a host of foreign and dangerous agents, but what prevents it from attacking any cells and tissues that belong to its host? The breakthroughs awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine revealed how self-discrimination is learned at the biological level, through…
moreDonald A. Glaser – Interview
Interview
Interview transcript We are now in Lindau, a small town in southern Germany, and this is the celebration, the 50th anniversary of the Nobelprizeträgertagungen and I am here with Professor Donald Glaser. Professor Glaser could you tell us a little bit why did you become physicist? Donald Glaser: As…
moreDonald A. Glaser – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Donald A. Glaser’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1960 Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, As my fellow laureates in science have just emphasized to you, the advance of modern science is possible only because of the complete cooperation and collaboration of many scientists. We depend heavily not…
moreDonald A. Glaser – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Saint-John Perse – Bibliography
Bibliography
Works in French Eloges. – Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1911 Amitié du prince. – Paris: Ronald Davis, 1924 Anabase. – Paris: Gallimard, 1924. – Édition revue 1948 Poème pour Valery Larbaud. – Liège: A la Lampe d’Aladdin, 1936 Exil : poème. – Marseilles : Editions Cahiers du Sud, 1942 Pluies. – Buenos…
moreWillard F. Libby – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture