1989
The 14th Dalai Lama – Speed read
Speed read
The 14th Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of the Tibetan people. The 14th Dalai Lama Full name: The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)Born: 6 July 1935, Taktser, Tibet (now China)Date awarded: 5 October…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA Sidney Altman Yale University New Haven, CT, USA Thomas R. Cech University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
moreJ. Michael Bishop – Biographical
Biographical
“And what have kings that privates have not too,Save ceremony, save general ceremony?” William Shakespeare, in Henry the Fifth, IV. 1, 243-244 My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank…
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