Nobel Prize summary

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Nobel Prize, Any of the prizes awarded annually by four institutions (three Swedish and one Norwegian) from a fund established under the will of Alfred B. Nobel. The will specified that awards should be given “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.” Since 1901, prizes have been awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace; since 1969, a sixth prize, established by the Bank of Sweden, has been awarded in economic sciences. The Nobel Prizes are regarded as the most prestigious prizes in the world.

Adolf von Baeyer Summary

Adolf von Baeyer was a German research chemist who synthesized indigo (1880) and formulated its structure (1883). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1905. Baeyer studied with Robert Bunsen, but August Kekule exercised a greater influence on his development. He took his doctorate at the

Werner Arber Summary

Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist, corecipient with Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Othanel Smith of the United States of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 1978. All three were cited for their work in molecular genetics, specifically the discovery and application of enzymes that break

Alexander Fleming on antiseptics Summary

Writing on the very eve (1928) of his famed accidental discovery of that world-changing antibiotic he called penicillin, Scottish bacteriologist and Nobel Prize winner Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), later Sir Alexander, laid out the problem his work would begin to solve. Fleming’s co-author was

Miguel Ángel Asturias Summary

Miguel Ángel Asturias was a Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 (see Nobel Lecture: “The Latin American Novel: Testimony of an Epoch”) and the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize in 1966. His writings, which combine the mysticism of the Maya with