The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for preventing armed clashes and creating conditions for negotiations. Full name: United Nations Peacekeeping ForcesNative name: United Nations Peacekeeping ForcesFounded: 1948, New York, NY, USADate awarded: 29 September 1988 The Blue Helmets Toward the end of the Cold War, the Norwegian Nobel Committee showed its…

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Nobel Prize Conversations  “It was curiosity. I always wanted to find out how we worked” “If somebody tells me ‘this is impossible’, I always think that it still might be possible – and try to find a way around.” Where would the world be without the scientists who look beyond the conventional wisdom and…

Umm Kulthoum Mahfouz and Fatma Naguib Mahfouz receiving the Nobel Prize in literature 1988 on behalf of their father Naguib Mahfouz at the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December 1988. Mr. Mohamed Salmawy delivering the Nobel Lecture on behalf of literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz at the Swedish Academy, 8 December 1988.…

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A presentation of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1988, based on material from the 1988 Physics Nobel poster from the Royal Academy of Sciences. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Leon M. LedermanFermi National Accelerator Laboratory,Batavia, Illinois, USA Melvin SchwartzDigital Pathways Inc.,Mountain View, California, USA Jack…

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In the 1980s, efforts to determine the structures of all known proteins needed to overcome one large – or more accurately speaking, microscopic – barrier. Many proteins involved in vital biological functions, such as the transport of nutrients into cells or nerve impulses, span the fatty membranes that surround every cell in order to carry…