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Rewarding and Promoting Creativity
Akademisk Kvarter, 2014 Awards and prizes are designed to encourage creativity. They help stimulate and promote it among professionals and members of publics-at-large. This article focuses on ex-post accolades.
Lukasz Swiatek
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Double Nobel prize winner: Frederick Sanger – the father of genomics [PDF]
The Ukrainian Biochemical Journal, 2021 This paper aims to outline briefly the main stages of Frederick Sanger’s scientific activity – the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry (1958, 1980).
T. V. Danylova, S. V. Komisarenko
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Mortality and immortality : the Nobel Prize as an experiment into the effect of status upon longevity [PDF]
, 2008 It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which extra status could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample of
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Alfred Nobel and His Prizes: From Dynamite to DNA
Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2017 Alfred Nobel was one of the most successful chemists, inventors, entrepreneurs, and businessmen of the late nineteenth century. In a decision later in life, he rewrote his will to leave virtually all his fortune to establish prizes for persons of any ...
Marshall A. Lichtman
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It is time to pay tribute to women in science: the women who won the Nobel prizes in Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine [PDF]
The Ukrainian Biochemical JournalIn the 21st century, it is time to recognize the essential role of women in science. The study carried out by women-scientists makes it possible to combine brightness of mind, deep knowledge with humaneness and wisdom.
T. V. Danylova, S. V. Komisarenko
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CoRR, 2014 Extended version of Nature 508, 186 (2014) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v508/n7495/full/508186a.html ; http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5 ...
Francesco Becattini +5 more
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Unknown facets of well known scientists
Journal of Marine Medical Society, 2016 Generally Nobel laureates are known and celebrated because of the discoveries for which prizes are awarded. Many of them possess unknown facets which are to be celebrated with equal recognition but go unreported because the award winning discovery ...
V S Dixit
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Archives of Ophthalmology, 2011 December 2006 marked 100 years since the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to 2 pioneers in the cellular anatomy of the central nervous system (CNS), Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Golgi developed the silver impregnation method for studying nerve cells, a technique that clearly showed entire cells with their ...
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