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  • [[Image:Norske nobelinstiutt 1.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|The Nobel Institute ... The Nobel Prizes are prizes instituted by the will of Alfred Bernhard ...
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  • who was the first to obtain an equation of state that describes the condition ... Johannes Diderik van der Waals was born in the Dutch city of Leiden ...
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  • He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked ... * List of Nobel laureates by country *List of refugees * Marie-Louise ...
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  • is arguably the most influential collection of poetry published in Russian ... painter and professor at the Moscow School of Painting, who converted to ...
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  • poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature ... known internationally after receiving the Nobel Prize. Her work has been ...
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  • 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 ... him to leave the country in 1933 because of his Jewish background, and ...
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  • writing in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 ... In September, 1874 he was sent to the Jesuit College of Sainte-Barbe ...
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  • He is famous for his successful application of the concept of microcredit ... empowered women, who represent 95 percent of the bank's clientele. ...
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  • | awards = Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|1988 Nobel Prize in Literature ... | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ...
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  • (November 21, 1904 – July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish ... by Jews near Warsaw in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, probably ...
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  • 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature ... view the conflict between the two sides of his personality, the narrow ...
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  • 17, 1934) was a Spanish histologist (study of tissues) and physician who ... To observe the structure of individual neurons, Ramón y Cajal used ...
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  • a South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate. the organization was banned. After the fall of the apartheid regime, the release ...
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  • Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman ... Värmland, Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Lagerlöf was the daughter ...
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  • 17, 2013) was a British writer, author of novels including The Grass ... , when she was writing on the theme of radical social issues (to which ...
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  • actor, and composer. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 ... His most famous, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, is based on events ...
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  • poet, journalist, and novelist and author of several best-sellers. Ironic ... supported liberal causes. He was a signatory of Emile Zola's manifesto ...
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  • rule," which predicts the number of phases that a substance can ... Josiah Willard Gibbs was the only son and the fourth of five children ...
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  • Mother Teresa, in full Saint Teresa of Calcutta, (born Agnesa Gonxha ... Her supporters sometimes referred to her as the "Angel of Mercy ...
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  • Age circa 800 C.E. With the conversion of the land to Christianity around ... (late eighteenth century), the first writer of burlesque ballads; and August ...
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