Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | |
| Reception | John Galsworthy | |
| Reception | Toni Morrison | Toni Morrison
was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature for her novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, giv[ing] life to an essential aspect of American reality. The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum. Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger, editors. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. Oryx Press. 92 |
| Reception | George Bernard Shaw | |
| Textual Production | T. S. Eliot | T. S. Eliot
, at sixty the grand old man of English poetry, was announced to be this year's winner of the Nobel
Prize for Literature. Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ . 4 November 2008 The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum. Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger, editors. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. Oryx Press. |
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10 December 1902: Sir Ronald Ross from Great Britain was awarded...
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10 December 1902
Sir Ronald Ross
from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on malaria.
10 December 1903: For their research on the radiation phenomena,...
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10 December 1903
For their research on the radiation phenomena, Marie Curie
and Pierre Curie
were awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physics, jointly with Antoine Henri Becquerel
.
10 December 1903: Sir William Randal Cremer from Great Britain...
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10 December 1903
Sir William Randal Cremer
from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize for his work in establishing the International Arbitration League
, an organization that promoted arbitration between two sovereign governments.
10 December 1904: Two British scientists won Nobel Prizes:...
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10 December 1904
Two British scientists won Nobel
Prizes: Sir William Ramsay
in Chemistry for his discovery of inert gaseous elements in air, and John William Strutt
in Physics for investigating the densities of argon and other gases.
10 December 1905: Bertha von Suttner was awarded the Nobel...
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10 December 1905
Bertha von Suttner
was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize for her vocal critique of armament programmes and militarism in the anti-war novel Lay down your Arms.
10 December 1906: Sir Joseph John Thomson from Great Britain...
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10 December 1906
Sir Joseph John Thomson
from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physics for original work on cathode rays culminating in the discovery of the electron.
10 December 1908: Lord Ernest Rutherford's work on radioactive...
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10 December 1908
Lord Ernest Rutherford
's work on radioactive substances earned him the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry.
10 December 1909: Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to...
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10 December 1909
Selma Lagerlöf
became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature, in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
10 December 1911: Marie Curie's discovery of the elements radium...
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10 December 1911
Marie Curie
's discovery of the elements radium and polonium won her a second Nobel
Prize, this time in Chemistry.
10 December 1915: For their analysis of crystal structure by...
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10 December 1915
For their analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays, Sir William Henry Bragg
and his son Sir William Lawrence Bragg
from Great Britain were awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physics.
10 December 1917: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the...
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10 December 1917
The Nobel
Peace Prize was awarded to the International Red Cross
; they won this prize again in 1944 and 1963.
June 1921: Nansen passports were first issued by the...
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June 1921
Nansen passports were first issued by the League of Nations
to identify refugees and stateless persons. Dr Fridjtof Nansen
, Norwegian Arctic explorer appointed League of Nations Commissioner for refugees, was awarded the Nobel
Peace...
10 December 1921: Frederick Soddy from Great Britain was awarded...
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10 December 1921
Frederick Soddy
from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes.
10 December 1922: Sir Archibald Vivian Hill from Great Britain...
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10 December 1922
Sir Archibald Vivian Hill
from Great Britain and Otto Fritz Meyerhof
were jointly awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and muscular...
10 December 1925: After the success of the Locarno Agreements...
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10 December 1925
After the success of the Locarno Agreements to guarantee arbitration between Germany and former enemy nations, Sir Austen Chamberlain
from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize.
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