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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 ...

is arguably the most influential collection of poetry published in Russian ... painter and professor at the Moscow School of Painting, who converted to ...

poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature ... known internationally after receiving the Nobel Prize. Her work has been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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(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 ...

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 ...

17, 1934) was a Spanish histologist (study of tissues) and physician who ... To observe the structure of individual neurons, Ramón y Cajal used ...

a South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate. the organization was banned. After the fall of the apartheid regime, the release ...

Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman ... Värmland, Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Lagerlöf was the daughter ...

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 ...

rule," which predicts the number of phases that a substance can ... Josiah Willard Gibbs was the only son and the fourth of five children ...

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 ...

poet, journalist, and novelist and author of several best-sellers. Ironic ... supported liberal causes. He was a signatory of Emile Zola's manifesto ...

Mother Teresa, in full Saint Teresa of Calcutta, (born Agnesa Gonxha ... Her supporters sometimes referred to her as the "Angel of Mercy ...

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 ...

he became the first Englishman to earn the Nobel Prize for Literature. Kipling ... Despite Kipling's troubled history, he has contributed a number ...

mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1922. He was also ... Niels Bohr is one of the most important scientists from Denmark; he ...

in his writings, particularly the absurdity of existence in a brutal and apparently ... Though Camus’ work is often associated with that of another important ...

a student leader. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature ... He is recognized as the leading architect of Burmese independence, and the ...

was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He ... Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter ...

28, 1968) was a German chemist and a pioneer of radioactivity and radiochemistry ... 1879, in Frankfurt am Main, the youngest son of the glazier and entrepreneur ...

rights activist who served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. After ... including issues surrounding command of the military. However, Poland ...

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became the first Canadian to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the fourteenth ... and political cooperation among the nations of the world so that all benefit ...

1912 – February 25, 1999) won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries ... , contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed ...

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founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in ... continues to be a leader in several areas. Of particular note is its world ...

raised in Norway, Undset had her first books of historical fiction published ... Ages, portrayed through the experiences of a woman from birth until death ...

The beloved leader of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu ... his culture's traditions in the naming of his daughter. In Burmese historical ...

statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel, serving from 2007 to ... and led Alignment and Labor. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he ...

), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city ... After World War I, Munich became a hotbed of right-wing politics, ...

Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...

he organized mass protests against the use of nuclear power. ... ntsofjapanliv00west/page/294 Giants of Japan: The Lives of Japan& ...

March 2, 1931 - August 30, 2022) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 ... Gorbachev was wildly popular in the West, largely because of the way ...

Indian physicist, who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his ... Eventually, in 1891, he gained a Bachelors of Arts degree in physics at the ...

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was a British novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature ... His mother, Mildred, was a supporter of the British Suffrage movement ...

roots in his writing. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His ... Saint Lucia, in the West Indies, the son of Alix (Maarlin) and Warwick Walcott. ...

is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. He pioneered ... Pauling received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his campaign against ...

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organization (NGO) with the stated purpose of campaigning for internationally ... shocked and angered to come across the story of two Portuguese students sentenced ...

that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...

in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors ... for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in ...

States, located in the north-central part of the state, near the junction ... Dallas is the main economic center of the 12 county Dallas, Fort Worth ...

| prizes = Goethe Prize (1928)Nobel Peace Prize (1952) ... century as a humanitarian and advocate of peace. Schweitzer received ...

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School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United ... after those at Oxford and Cambridge. Each of 12 residential colleges houses ...

, (August 16, 1913 - March 9, 1992) was head of the Zionist underground ... as prime minister--and in the view of many, his singular accomplishment ...

agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called ... During the mid-twentieth century, Borlaug led the introduction of ...

physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...

Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when ... His later work has shown steadfast devotion to many traditions of ...

lit. “capital capital,” or “capital of capitals") was the Imperial ... Kyoto is known as one of the academic centers of Japan, and is home ...

and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.[http://www ... * List of Nobel laureates in Literature * List of people on stamps ...

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) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth ... faith" in Spanish) had a population of 62,203 according to the April ...

established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...

or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...

different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...

August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 ... Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He ...

Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. The United Mexican ... 14th largest in the world. With a population of almost 109 million, it is the ...

Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...

California is a state on the West Coast of the United States, along ... changed California, sparking a large influx of people and a sustained economic ...

), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ... Modern Greece, a developed country and a member of the European Union ...

) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous ... Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centers ...