Nobel Prize

Artist: Gunnar Brusewitz.

Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to bring help to suffering humanity. Mother Teresa Full name: Mother TeresaBorn: 26 August 1910, Uskup, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, North Macedonia)Died: 5 September 1997, Calcutta, IndiaDate awarded: 27 October 1979 Dedicating her life to the poor At the age of twelve, Agnes Gonxha…

Sheldon Glashow (right) shaking hands with co-recipient Steven Weinberg after the news of their Nobel Prize, October 1979. Sheldon Glashow at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 2017.

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Godfrey Hounsfield’s groundbreaking concept of viewing organs from outside the body was so ambitious that it would require the most successful pop band in history and visionary doctors to help his idea reach fruition. Few bands can rightly claim to have had an impact on the history of music, and even less can claim to…

The famous X-ray photograph Wilhem Röntgen took of his wife’s hand showed both the potential and the limitations of using X-ray images in medicine. The bones of Röntgen’s wife’s hand can be clearly seen, as can her wedding ring, but soft tissues, blood vessels and nerves are all invisible. Over 70 years later, computed tomography,…

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Date of birth: 29 January, 1926 Place of birth: Jhang, Pakistan Educational Career Government College, Jhang and Lahore (1938-1946) M.A. (Punjab University) Foundation Scholar, St. John’s College, Cambridge (1946- 1949) B.A. Honours Double first in Mathematics (Wrangler) and Physics Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (1952) Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics Awarded Smith’s Prize by the University of Cambridge…

Abdus Salam’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1979 Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of my colleagues, Professor Glashow and Weinberg, I thank the Nobel Foundation and the Royal Academy of Sciences for the great honour and the courtesies extended to us, including the courtesy to me of being addressed in…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1979 Towards a Unified Theory – Threads in a Tapestry Pdf 59 kB