Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle for civil rights in the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. Full name: Martin Luther King Jr.Born: 15 January 1929, Atlanta, GA, USADied: 4 April 1968, Memphis, TN, USADate awarded: 14 October 1964 The civil rights movement Martin Luther King dreamed…

Dorothy Hodgkin, one of the main founders of protein crystallography, possessed a unique mixture of skills that allowed her to extend the use of X-rays to reveal the structures of compounds that were far more complex than anything attempted before. Victory in Europe Day in Oxford, 8 May 1945. The war in Europe was over,…

Obtaining chemical structures with X-rays is more than just a matter of passing X-rays through crystals and generating data that reveal the final structure. The scientist’s ability to handle the data and ‘see’ the structure is of vital importance, and Dorothy Hodgkin was one of the field’s finest experts. X-ray crystallography was a relatively new…

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from…

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Nicolay G. Basov’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1964 (in French) Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Mesdames et Messieurs, Nous sommes heureux, et je parle au nom de mon collègue Prochorov aussi bien qu’en mon nom, nous sommes vraiment heureux d’avoir l’honneur de prendre part à ce dîner solennel en qualité de…

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