2003

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Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts for democracy and human rights, especially for the rights of women and children. Shirin Ebadi Full name: Shirin EbadiBorn: 21 June 1947, Hamadan, IranDate awarded: 10 October 2003 The first woman Muslim peace laureate Shirin Ebadi was one of Iran’s first female judges. Dismissed from…

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Interview

Interview transcript Welcome to the Nobel E-museum to meet Professor Paul Lauterbur, one of the Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine for 2003. First of all Professor Paul Lauterbur, congratulations to the prize. You must have heard this 1,000 times in the days passing. Paul Lauterbur: Very good experience and I’m certainly…

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Curriculum Vitae

Paul C. Lauterbur, born May 6, 1929 in Sidney, Ohio, USA. US citizen. Address: Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, University of Illinois, 2100 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA   Academic Education and Appointments 1951 B.S. in Chemistry, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland 1962 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1969-85 Professor of Chemistry,…

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Curriculum Vitae

1. University Education   1956–1959 Full time honours course in physics at Queen Mary College, London. Awarded First Class Honours.   1959–1962 Full time course for PhD at Queen Mary College, London. Awarded PhD in September 1962.       2. Appointments held   1962–1964 Appointed Research Associate at the Physics Department, University of Illinois,…

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Bio-bibliography

German Biobliographische Notiz John Maxwell Coetzee wurde 1940 in Kapstadt in Südafrika geboren. Er ist deutscher und englischer Herkunft. Die Eltern schickten ihn auf eine englische Schule, und er wuchs mit Englisch als erster Sprache auf. Anfang der sechziger Jahre zog er nach England, wo er anfangs als Computerprogrammierer arbeitete. Er studierte dann in den…

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