The Everything Quests: The Nobel Prize winners
Is Now a W r a p !!
For all those who submitted enteries thank you - this turned out better than I'd hoped for and your contributions exceeded my expectations!!
Did you miss the deadline for this quest? Or find out about it too late? Feel free to /msg me with your comprehensive Nobel Prize winner node when you do get it done and I'll add it to the honorable mention section below!
Orignal quest specifications are saved for historical purposes at the end of this node.
T H E S U B M I S S I O N S
kthejoker says:
re The Nobel Prize winners: Clinton Davisson done.
Clinton Davisson
Clinton Davisson is known as the first person to observe wave motion in electrons. The recipient of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Physics, and pretty much the forefather of modern crystal physics...(more)
BlakJak says:
Well, I've posted my writeup Arthur Henderson. This is not just my first quest submission, but also my first (person) writeup. I hope you like it.
Arthur Henderson
Arthur was awarded the Nobel Price in Peace, for his determined and steadfast pursuit of sanity between nations in the face of extreme adversity...(more)
kthejoker says:
re The Nobel Prize winners: and now Wendell Meredith Stanley, too.
Wendell Meredith Stanley
If you've ever had a flu vaccine, dodged hepatitis, or eaten fresh farm produce, be thankful for Doc Wendell...(more)
Trina says:
Please accept Theodor Mommsen He won the Literature prize in 1903.
Theodor Mommsen
1902 was the year Mommsen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, for being "the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with special reference to his monumental work, A History of Rome."...(more)
skongshoj says:
Fredrik Bajer's done. Enjoy!
Fredrik Bajer
Imagine arbitration, discussion and negotiation replacing warfare as the primary means of settling differences and disputes between nations...(more)
drownzsurf says:
I finished Leopold Ruzicka for your quest.
Leopold Ruzicka
By 1911 with a couple of years solid research behind him, Doctor Staudinger appointed Ruzicker his assistant. It was at this time they entered the new territory (a discipline-wide frontier) of the exploration of pyrethrins...(more)
skongshoj says:
One Johannes Fibiger for your reading pleasure
Johannes Fibiger
Johannes Fibiger's main contribution to science, and indeed to humanity, was his groundbreaking discovery that cancer could be caused by external influence...(more)
hotthamir says:
Ahmed Zewail completed for The Nobel Prize winners quest.
Ahmed Zewail
He recieved many awards and honors from all over the world for his pioneering work on molecular spectroscopy by femtosecond precession...(more)
skongshoj says:
Andrei Sakharov is done. This became a long writeup, but his story is quite complicated.
Andrei Sakharov
He was a vocal human rights advocate, had been described as a "spokesman for the conscience of mankind". He also happened to be the man who invented the Soviet hydrogen bomb...(more)
DoctorX says:
I posted my writeup on Camillo Golgi for the Nobels
Camillo Golgi
When Golgi began his work, scientists knew that many tissues were made of cells, but they didn't know whether nervous tissue (the tissue that makes up the brain, spinal cord, and nerves) was made of cells or not....(more)
typo says:
I made a writeup on the 1989 winner of Nobel peace prize: 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
Tenzin Gyatso
The 14th Dalai Lama's teachings are very clear and simple - just the way to be expected of a humble buddhist monk - he teaches of the fundamental rights of all beings, of love and compassion, of empathy and kindness.
...(more)
jwfxpr says:
Frédéric Joliot-Curie is up. Hope it's worthy, as it's only my third writeup ever... :)
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Frédéric Joliot-Curie was much more than just a leading member of one of chemistry's greatest dynasties. A person of strong personal and ethical conviction, Joliot played an important role in the French resistance movement during Nazi occupation
...(more)
Fortunado says:
Carl Spitteler is done.
Carl Spitteler
Carl Spitteler was a Swiss poet who possessed an incredible, visionary, imagination. He composed pessimistic, yet inherently heroic epic poetry. He created his own metrical scheme that is unique to his verse
...(more)
bookw56 says:
Mother Teresa: finally done for the quest! Really good quest idea, by the way.
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa (1910-1997) is an amazing example of how one person, when sufficiently motivated, can change the world. Mother, as she is affectionately known, went from being a nun living in the slums of Calcutta to the unofficial patroness of humanity's most destitute. ...(more)
DoctorX says:
Victor Grignard is ready. Enjoy.
Victor Grignard
Victor Grignard was the inventor of the Grignard Reagent that is one of the first reactions learned by any student of organic chemistry, and is very useful for combining two organic molecules ...(more)
turkeyphant says:
I'm all done on Pavel Cherenkov. I hope it's good enough - although I had to dig quite deep, it's given me lots of noding ideas...
Pavel Cherenkov
The Cherenkov effect is invaluable in today's modern nuclear and particle physics - it is used in the study of subatomic particles and cosmic rays as well as being very important in managing nuclear power stations...(more)
atriumjake says:
Please dig on Henryk Sienkiewicz for your Nobel Prize Quest. Thank you.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz was a great inspiration to the people of Poland. He was always conscious of Poland's cultural oppression, and sought to do as much as he could to help out his fellow man...(more)
drownzsurf says:
I submitted the United Nations wu for your quest.
United Nations
The 2001's Nobel Peace Prize equally with the United Nations, and its Secretary-General, Kofi Annan for its travail in gathering the Nations for peace. This committee had been working for a century in this great cause; and it was fitting that the award was given to the UN for the first time on its centenary anniversary...(more)
atriumjake says:
I give you Pär Lagerkvist as my second submission for your quest. Enjoy!
Pär Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist helped to smash down traditional forms of writing and introduce poetic modernism into Sweden. With his writing he often explored the question of good and evil, partly through using figures of Christianity without necessarily following the doctrines of the Church.
...(more)
solaraddict says:
Jaroslav Heyrovsky is up.
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
It does not happen very often for a scientist to find his life-long field of study, let alone receive the Nobel Prize for it, during a final exam. Jaroslav Heyrovský certainly was the exception to this rule by discovering polarography...(more)
atriumjake says:
For my last submission to your Quest I give you Frans Eemil Sillanpää. Use him well.
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Frans Eemil Sillanpää was a Finish writer. Drawing greatly from scientific laws regarding the physical harmony with of world, his works deal deeply with nature, and the common farmers ties with his land...(more)
Posmella says:
Against all odds, I've managed to finish Elie Wiesel for the quest, and am handing it in for inspection. Thanks! :o) (and also, thanks for doing the quest)
Elie Wiesel
The focus of Wiesel's life's work - to speak out about injustice when others remain silent: "...to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all..." ...(more)
peanut says:
After much procrastination, Michael Smith is up. Thanks for the quest!
Michael Smith
Smith created a molecular biology technique known as site-directed mutagenesis. This technique lets a scientist create specific mutations in an organism such as bacteria, plants, and animals, by precisely altering the base pairs that make up its DNA....(more)
oakling says:
ok alva myrdal has kicked my ass for (hopefully) the last time
Alva Myrdal
Alva Myrdal was literally a social engineer, or at least a social architect. Like Charlotte Perkins Gilman and other early feminists, she held a view of "material feminism" in which people's environments could be improved to change their lives....(more)
caknuck says:
Irving Langmuir is done. Exc. job on the Quest!
Irving Langmuir
While working with incandescent lamps, Langmuir also made significant advances to the vacuum tube and vacuum pumps, work whose merit would only be recognized several decades later....(more)
Osmosis says:
my deadline-scraping Cordell Hull writeup is now done. Whew. Thanks for doing the quest; I really enjoyed writing this piece.
Cordell Hull
His belief that dialogue and common ideals and goals could seed peace and understanding between nations led to his greatest achievement - his role in the setting up of the UN. This role was so pivotal, FDR dubbed him "the Father of the United Nations." ...(more)
Gartogg says:
I did my Yasser Arafat node. Hope you like it
Yasser Arafat
As the leader of the Palestinian people, he assumed a new role as their protector in the UN and the first leader to actually talk to the Israeli's to try to win concessions. ...(more)
McCart42 says:
whew! Just made it. Edward Mills Purcell.
Edward M. Purcell
Edward M. Purcell's life shines as an example of the good one man can bring to humanity through his research. The applications of the technologies he pioneered remain in use today in many forms: the MRI and radio astronomy both owe a lot to his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR....(more)
oakling says:
i did it!!!!
Alfonso García Robles
He continued to work with the United Nations toward worldwide disarmament, representing his country during the negotiations in Geneva and in the special UNO disarmament sessions begun in 1978...(more)
Below is an incomplete list of Nobel Prize winners - most of whom have yet to be noded. All the ones
not listed as comprehensive could use comprehensive writeups.
Nobel Prize In Chemistry
1901
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
1902
Emil Fischer - detailed node by
LadySun
1903
Svante Arrhenius
1904 Sir
William Ramsay
1905
Adolf von Baeyer
1906
Henri Moissan
1907
Eduard Buchner
1908 Ernest Rutherford - comprehensive node by Posmella
1909
Wilhelm Ostwald
1910
Otto Wallach
1911
Marie Curie - extensive node by
Tem42
1912
Victor Grignard
1912
Paul Sabatier
1913
Alfred Werner
1914
Theodore Williams Richards
1915
Richard Martin Willstatter
1918
Fritz Haber - detailed node by
Cloony
1920
Walther Nernst
1921
Frederick Soddy
1922
Francis William Aston
1923
Fritz Pregl
1925
Richard Zsigmondy
1926
Theodor Svedberg
1927
Heinrich Otto Wieland
1928
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
1929 Sir
Arthur Harden
1929
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
1930
Hans Fischer
1931
Carl Bosch - noded by
umquam
1931
Friedrich Bergius
1932 Irving Langmuir- comprehensive node by caknuck
1934
Harold Clayton Urey
1935
Irène Joliot-Curie - noded by
bigmouth_strikes
1935 Frédéric Joliot-Curie- comprehensive node by jwfxpr (quest)
1936
Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
1937 Sir
Walter Norman Haworth
1937
Paul Karrer
1938
Richard Kuhn
1939
Adolf Butenandt
1939
Leopold Ruzicka
1943
George de Hevesy
1944 Otto Hahn - comprehensive node by dido
1945
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
1946
John Howard Northrop
1946 Wendell Meredith Stanley - comprehensive node by kthejoker (quest)
1946
James Batcheller Sumner
1947 Sir
Robert Robinson
1948
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
1949
William Francis Giauque
1950
Otto Diels
1950
Kurt Alder
1951
Edwin Mattison McMillan
1952
Glenn Seaborg
1952
Richard Synge
1953
Hermann Staudinger
1954
Linus Pauling - brief node by
CrazyIvan
1955
Vincent du Vigneaud
1956 Sir
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
1956
Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
1957
Lord Alexander R. Todd
1958
Frederick Sanger - brief node by
CrazyIvan
1959
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
1960
Willard Libby
1961
Melvin Calvin
1962
Max Perutz
1962 Sir
John Cowdery Kendrew
1963
Karl Ziegler
1964
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1965
Robert Burns Woodward
1966
Robert S. Mulliken
1967
Ronald Norrish
1967
Lord George Porter
1967
Manfred Eigen
1968
Lars Onsager
1969 Sir
Derek Barton
1969
Odd Hassel
1970
Luis Leloir
1971
Gerhard Herzberg
1972
Christian Anfinsen
1972
Stanford Moore
1972
William Stein
1973
Ernst Otto Fischer
1973
Geoffrey Wilkinson
1974
Paul Flory
1975
John Warcup Cornforth
1975
Vladimir Prelog
1976
William Lipscomb
1977
Ilya Prigogine
1978
Peter Mitchell
1979
Herbert C. Brown
1979
Georg Wittig
1980
Paul Berg
1980
Walter Gilbert-brief node by
biotech
1980
Frederick Sanger - brief node by
crazyivan
1981
Kenichi Fukui
1981
Roald Hoffman
1982
Aaron Klug
1983
Henry Taube
1984
Bruce Merrifield
1985
Herbert Hauptman
1985
Jerome Karle
1986
Dudley R. Herschbach
1986
Yuan T. Lee
1986
John C. Polanyi
1987
Donald J. Cram
1987
Jean-Marie Lehn
1987
Charles J. Pedersen
1988
Johann Deisenhofer
1988
Robert Huber
1988
Hartmut Michel
1989
Sidney Altman
1989
Thomas R. Cech
1990
Elias J. Corey
1991
Richard R. Ernst
1992
Rudolph A. Marcus
1993
Kary B. Mullis comprehensive node by LadySun
1993
Michael Smith
1994
George A. Olah
1995
Paul Crutzen
1995
Mario Molina
1995
Sherwood Rowland
1996
Robert F. Curl, Jr.
1996 Sir
Harold W. Kroto
1996
Richard E. Smalley
1997
Paul D. Boyer - brief node by Halcyon&on
1997
John E. Walker - brief node by Halcyon&on
1997
Jens C. Skou
1998
Walter Kohn - brief node by Halcyon&on
1998
John Pople - brief node by Halcyon&on
1999 Ahmed Zewail - comprehensive node by hotthamir (quest)
2000
Alan J. Heeger
2000
Alan G. MacDiarmid
2000
Hideki Shirakawa
2001
William S. Knowles
2001
Ryoji Noyori
2001
K. Barry Sharpless
2002
John B. Fenn
2002
Koichi Tanaka
2002
Kurt Wüthrich
Nobel Prize In Peace
1901
Jean Henri Dunant
1901
Frédéric Passy
1902
Élie Ducommun - noded by
Void ptr
1902
Charles Albert Gobat
1903 Sir
William Randal Cremer
1906 Theodore Roosevelt- detailed nodes by a few
1907
Louis Renault
1907
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
1908
Fredrik Bajer
1908
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
1921
Hjalmar Branting
1922 Fridtjof Nansen - comprehensive node by Anthropod
1925 Charles G. Dawes - comprehensive node by Wiccanpiper
1925 Sir
Austen Chamberlain
1926
Gustav Stresemann - noded by
Schmik
1926
Aristide Briand - detailed node by
lontjr
1927
Ludwig Quidde
1927
Ferdinand Buisson
1929
Frank B. Kellogg
1930
Nathan Söderblom
1931 Nicholas Murray Butler - comprehensive node by Gamaliel
1931
Jane Addams - detailed node by
SophiesCat
1933 Sir
Norman Angell
1934 Arthur Henderson - comprehensive node by BlakJak (quest)
1935
Carl von Ossietzky - detailed node by
fb10101
1936
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1937
Robert Cecil
1945 Cordell Hull- comprehensive node by Osmosis(quest)
1946
Emily Greene Balch
1946
John R. Mott
1949
Lord Boyd Orr
1950 Ralph Bunche - comprehensive node by borgo
1951
Léon Jouhaux
1952
Albert Schweitzer - noded by
Pedro
1953 George C. Marshall - comprehensivech node by ophie
1957 Lester B. Pearson - comprehensive node by irRationalist
1958
Georges Pire
1959
Philip Noel-Baker
1960
Albert John Lutuli
1961 Dag Hammarskjold - comprehensive node by tusitala
1962
Linus Pauling - brief node by
CrazyIvan
1964 Martin Luther King Jr. - comprehensive node by novasoy
1968
René Cassin
1970
Norman Borlaug - noded by
kessenich
1971 Willy Brandt - comprehensive node by Apatrix
1973
Henry Kissinger - detailed nodes by
pimephalis and
RubenAzarja
1973
Le Duc Tho - noded by
Sekicho
1974
Seán MacBride
1974
Sato Eisaku
1975 Andrei Sakharov - comprehensive node by skongshoj (quest)
1976
Betty Williams
1976
Mairead Corrigan
1977 Amnesty International - comprehensive node by sloebertje
1978 Anwar Sadat - comprehensive node by borgo
1978 Menachem Begin - comprehensive node by lara68
1979 Mother Teresa - comprehensive node by bookw56 (quest)
1980
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1981
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1982
Alva Myrdal
1982 Alfonso García Robles- comprehensive node by oakling (quest)
1983
Lech Walesa - noded by
BlueDragon
1984 Desmond Tutu - comprehensive node by StrawberryFrog
1985
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1986
Elie Wiesel - detailed node by
Maayan
1987
Oscar Arias Sánchez
1988
United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1989 Tenzin Gyatso - comprehensive node by typo
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev - comprehensive node by person
1991
Aung San Suu Kyi - detailed node by
amiawakeyet
1992
Rigoberta Menchú - noded by
eldritch
1993
Nelson Mandela - noded by
StrawberryFrog
1993
F.W. de Klerk
1994 Yasser Arafat - comprehensive node by vapour
1994
Shimon Peres - noded by
footprints
1994
Itzhak Rabin - detailed node by
footprints
1995
Joseph Rotblat
1995
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1996
Carlos Belo - brief node by
Txikwa
1996
José Ramos-Horta
1997
International Campaign to Ban Landmines - noded by
consumagenerica
1997
Jody Williams
1998
John Hume - brief node by
ryano
1998
David Trimble
1999 Médecins Sans Frontières - comprehensive node by Teiresias
2000 Kim Dae Jung - comprehensive node by _chaotic_
2001
United Nations - brief nodes by a few
2001
Kofi Annan - detailed node by
Apatrix
2002
Jimmy Carter - detailed nodes by a few
Nobel Prize In Physics
1901
Wilhelm Röntgen - brief nodes by several
1902
Hendrik A. Lorentz - brief node by
PhysicsChic
1903
Marie Curie - extensive nodes by
Sapia and
Tem42
1903
Pierre Curie- brief nodes by a few
1903
Antoine Henri Becquerel - noded by PhysicsChic
1904
Lord Rayleigh - noded by
dido
1905
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard - brief node by
PhysicsChic
1906
Sir Joseph John Thomson- brief node by
PhysicsChic
1907
Albert Abraham Michelson - noded by PhysicsChic
1908
Gabriel Lippman - noded by PhysicsChic
1909
Guglielmo Marconi - noded by PhysicsChic
1909
Carl Ferdinand Braun - noded by PhysicsChic
1910
Johannes van der Waals- noded by bigmouth_strikes
1911
Wilhelm Wien - brief node by PhysicsChic
1912
Nils Gustaf Dalén - noded by PhysicsChic
1913
Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes - noded by PhysicsChic
1914
Max von Laue - noded by PhysicsChic and
montecarlo
1915
William Henry Bragg - brief node by PhysicsChic
1915
William Lawrence Bragg - brief node by PhysicsChic
1917
Charles Glover Barkla - brief node by PhysicsChic
1918
Max Planck - brief nodes by
bigmouth_strikes and
metafist
1919
Johannes Stark - brief node by PhysicsChic
1920
Charles Edouard Guillaume - noded by PhysicsChic
1921
Albert Einstein - detailed node by Jet-Poop
1922 Niels Bohr - comprehensive node by Imprecation
1923
Robert Andrews Millikan - noded by PhysicsChic
1924
Karl Siegbahn
1925
James Franck
1925
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
1926
Jean Baptiste Perrin
1927
Arthur Holly Compton
1927
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
1928 Sir
Owen Willans Richardson
1929
Louis de Broglie-brief node by
SpeedFreek
1930 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman - comprehensive node by Pferdina
1932
Werner Heisenberg - briefly noded by bigmouth_strikes
1933 Paul Dirac - comprehensive node by dido
1933
Erwin Schrodinger - noded by
pedro
1935
James Chadwick
1936
Carl David Anderson
1936
Victor Franz Hess
1937 Clinton Davisson- comprehensive node by kthejoker (quest)
1937
George Paget Thomson
1938
Enrico Fermi - brief node by
bigmouth_strikes
1939
Ernest Lawrence - brief node by pedro
1943
Otto Stern
1944
Isidor I. Rabi - brief node by
GorillaPhysicist
1945
Wolfgang Pauli - brief node by
bigmouth_strikes
1946
Percy W. Bridgman
1947
Edward V. Appleton
1948
Patrick Blackett
1949
Hideki Yukawa - noded by
pax_music
1950
Cecil Powell
1951
John Cockcroft
1951
Ernest T. S. Walton
1952
Felix Bloch
1952 Edward Mills Purcell- comprehensive node by McCart42 (quest)
1953
Frits Zernike
1954
Max Born - brief node by
bigmouth_strikes
1954
Walther Bothe
1955
Willis E. Lamb
1955
Polykarp Kusch
1956
William Shockley
1956
John Bardeen
1956
Walter Brattain
1957
Chen Ning Yang
1957
Tsung-Dao Lee
1958 Pavel Cherenkov- comprehensive node by turkeyphan (quest)
1958
Il´ja M. Frank
1958
Igor Y. Tamm
1959
Emilio Segrè
1960
Donald A. Glaser - brief node by PhysicsChic
1961
Robert Hofstadter
1961
Rudolf Mössbauer
1962
Lev Davidovich Landau
1963
Eugene Wigner
1963
Maria Goeppert Mayer - detailed node by
sm597
1963
J. Hans D. Jensen
1964
Charles Hard Townes
1964
Nikolai Gennadiyevich Basov
1964
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov
1965
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
1965
Julian Seymour Schwinger
1965 Richard P. Feynman - comprehensive node by Wrinkly
1966
Alfred Kastler
1967
Hans Bethe - detailed node by
Grzcyrgba
1968
Luis Walter Alvarez
1969
Murray Gell-Mann - brief nodes by a few
1970
Hannes Alfvén
1970
Louis Eugene Neel
1971
Dennis Gabor
1972
John Bardeen
1972
Leon Neil Cooper
1972
John Robert Schreiffer
1973
Leo Esaki
1973
Ivar Giaever
1973
Brian David Josephson
1974 Sir
Martin Ryle
1974
Antony Hewish
1975
Aage N. Bohr
1975
Ben Roy Mottelson
1975
Leo James Rainwater
1976
Burton Richter
1976
Samuel C. C. Ting
1977
Philip Warren Anderson
1977 Sir
Nevill F. Mott
1977
John H. van Vleck
1978
Pyotr Lenidovich Kapitza
1978
Arno Allan Penzias
1978
Woodrow Wilson - detailed node by
kto9
1979
Sheldon Glashow
1979
Abdus Salam
1979
Steven Weinberg - brief node by
rosencrantz
1980
James Watson Cronin
1980
Val Logsdon Fitch
1981
Nicolaas Bloembergen
1981
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
1981
Kai M. Siegbahn
1982
Kenneth G. Wilson
1983
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - noded by
ScottMan
1983
William A. Fowler
1984
Carlo Rubbia
1984
Simon van der Meer
1985
Klaus von Klitzing
1986
Ernst Ruska
1986
Gerd Binnig
1986
Heinrich Rohrer
1987
J. Georg Bednorz
1987
K. Alexander Muller
1988
Leon M. Lederman - detailed node by
TheGatekeeper
1988
Melvin Schwartz
1988
Jack Steinberger
1989
Norman F. Ramsey
1989
Hans G. Dehmelt
1989
Wolfgang Paul
1990
Richard Taylor
1990
Jerome I. Friedman
1990
Henry W. Kendall
1991
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1992
Georges Charpak
1993
Russell A. Hulse
1993
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
1994
Clifford G. Shull
1994
Bertram N. Brockhouse
1995
Martin L. Perl
1995
Frederick Reines
1996
David M. Lee
1996
Douglas D. Osheroff
1996
Robert C. Richardson
1997
Steven Chu
1997
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
1997
William D. Phillips
1998
Robert B. Laughlin
1998
Horst L. Stormer
1998
Daniel C. Tsui
1999
Gerardus 't Hooft - noded by
Halcyon&on
1999
Martinus J.G. Veltman
2000
Zhores I. Alferov
2000
Herbert Kroemer
2000
Jack S. Kilby
2001
Eric A. Cornell
2001
Wolfgang Ketterle
2001
Carl E. Wieman
2002
Raymond Davis
2002
Masatoshi Koshiba
2002
Riccardo Giacconi
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1901 Emil Adolf von Behring - comprehensive node by Apatrix
1902
Ronald Ross
1903
Niels Ryberg Finsen
1904
Ivan Pavlov - brief nodes by a few
1905 Robert Koch - comprehensive node by JediBix783
1906 Camillo Golgi- comprehensive node by DoctorX (quest)
1906
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1907
Alphonse Laveran
1908
Ilya Mechnikov
1908
Paul Ehrlich
1909
Theodor Kocher
1910
Albrecht Kossel
1911
Allvar Gullstrand
1912
Alexis Carrel
1913
Charles Richet
1914
Robert Bárány
1919
Jules Bordet
1920
August Krogh
1922
Archibald Hill
1922
Otto Meyerhof
1923
Frederick G. Banting - detailed node by
melknia
1923
John Macleod
1924
Willem Einthoven
1926
Johannes Fibiger
1927
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
1928
Charles Nicolle
1929
Christiaan Eijkman
1929
Frederick Hopkins
1930
Karl Landsteiner - noded by
hesby
1931
Otto Warburg
1932 Sir
Charles Scott Sherrington
1932
Edgar Douglas Adrian
1933
Thomas Hunt Morgan - detailed node by
Blindwalker
1934
George Whipple
1934
George Minot
1934
William Murphy
1935
Hans Spemann
1936 Sir
Henry Dale
1936
Otto Loewi
1937
Albert Szent-Györgyi
1938
Corneille Heymans
1939
Gerhard Domagk
1943
Henrik Dam
1943
Edward Doisy
1944
Joseph Erlanger
1944
Herbert Gasser
1945 Sir
Alexander Fleming - comprehensive node by
wertperch
1945
Ernst Chain
1945 Sir
Howard W. Florey
1946
Hermann Muller
1947
Carl Cori
1947
Gerty Cori
1947
Bernardo Houssay
1948
Paul Müller
1949
Walter Hess
1949
António Egas Moniz
1950
Edward Kendall
1950
Tadeus Reichstein
1950
Philip Hench
1951
Max Theiler
1952
Selman Waksman
1953
Hans Adolph Krebs
1953
Fritz Lipmann
1954
John Enders
1954
Thomas Weller
1954
Frederick Robbins
1955
Hugo Theorell
1956
André Cournand
1956
Werner Forssmann
1956
Dickinson Richards
1957
Daniel Bovet
1958
George W. Beadle
1958
Edward Tatum - detailed node by Betsumei
1958
Joshua Lederberg
1959
Severo Ochoa
1959
Arthur Kornberg
1960 Sir
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
1960
Peter Medawar
1961
Georg von Békésy
1962
Francis Crick - brief node by Protector of Mankind
1962
James Watson - noded by Tem42
1963 Sir
John Eccles
1963
Alan Hodgkin
1963
Andrew Huxley
1964
Konrad Bloch
1964
Feodor Lynen
1965
François Jacob
1965
André Lwoff
1965
Jacques Monod
1966
Peyton Rous
1966
Charles Huggins
1967
Ragnar Granit
1967
Haldan Hartline
1967
George Wald
Nobel Prize In Literature:
1901 Sully Prudhomme- coomprehensive node by Gamaliel
1902 Theodor Mommsen- comprehensive node by Trina (quest)
1903
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1904
Frédéric Mistral
1904
José Echegaray
1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906
Giosuè Carducci
1907
Rudyard Kipling- noded by Jet-poop
1908
Rudolf Eucken
1909
Selma Lagerlöf
1910
Paul Heyse
1911
Maurice Maeterlinck
1912
Gerhart Hauptmann
1913
Rabindranath Tagore- noded by Halcyon&on
1915
Romain Rolland
1916
Verner von Heidenstam
1917
Karl Gjellerup
1917
Henrik Pontoppidan
1919 Carl Spitteler comprehensive node by Fortunado (quest)
1920
Knut Hamsun- noded by Slothrup
1921
Anatole France
1922
Jacinto Benavente
1923
William Butler Yeats - brief nodes by serveral
1924
Wladyslaw Reymont
1925
George Bernard Shaw - comprehensive node by Mortice
1926
Grazia Deledda
1927
Henri Bergson
1928
Sigrid Undset - detailed node by JediBix783
1929 Thomas Mann - comprehensive node by Roninspoon
1930 Sinclair Lewis - comprehensive node by RainDropUp
1931
Erik Karlfeldt
1932
John Galsworthy
1933
Ivan Bunin
1934
Luigi Pirandello - detailed node by Rax
1936
Eugene O'Neill - noded by Pedro
1937
Roger Martin du Gard
1938
Pearl S. Buck - comprehensive node by borgo
1939
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1944
Johannes V. Jensen - comprehensive node by liveforever
1945
Gabriela Mistral - brief node by Everdove
1946
Hermann Hesse - comprehensive node by Aptrix
1945
André Gide - brief node by L'Homme Tomate
1948
T. S. Eliot - comprehensive node by zophos
1949
William Faulkner - detailed nodes by several
1950
Bertrand Russell - noded by serveral
1951
Pär Lagerkvist
1952
François Mauriac - comprehensive node by Sensei
1953
Winston Churchill - comprehensive node by dabcanboulet
1954
Ernest Hemingway - comprehensive node by Quaisior
1955
Halldór Laxness
1956
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Thanks to:
http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/index.html
for helping me compile this list.
This being my first quest, I would of course appreciate any feedback and suggestions! Thanks.
And finally...
shout-outs to all those helping me with this quest:
Rancid_Pickel
Tiefling
Simulacron3
Lennon
wertperch
Thanks you! :)
For historical / reference reasons my orignal quest specs:
From Alfred Nobel's Will:
The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way:
The capital shall be invested by my executors in safe securities and shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics; one part to the person who shall have made the most important chemical discovery or improvement; one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine; one part to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency; and one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.
- http://history1900s.about.com/library/misc/blnobelwill.htm
The Quest:
Nobel Prize winners by definition have benefitted humanity, and thus deserve special treatment here at E2. This E2 quest has been established to encourage the many creative minds here at E2, to write a detailed account of each winner's life and works.
This quest is looking for biographies presenting a detailed account of the life and work of a given Nobel Prize winner. The biographies should be as complete as possible, and those placing a special emphasis on the body of work for which the subject won the award will get C!'d by me.
I think someday all Nobel Prize winners should have comprehensive writeups such as this one done by Wrinkly, Richard P. Feynman. That's the goal of this quest, to put a dent in the number of these important contributors to humanity not yet noded.
That writeup by Wrinkly is a perfect example of what I'd love to see. Perhaps not all can be that comprehensive, but the writeups for this quest should include:
- The subject's early life, education and formative influences
- Outstanding achievements, awards and acclamations won by the subject
- Any awards, or places, or things named after them
- An assessment of the subject's contribution to the field, and humanity
- A bibliography of works by or about the winner
wertperch suggests the E2 FAQ: writing a biography for more information.
Sponsor:
Rancid_Pickle has graciously offered to sponsor this quest for me, awarding the XP blessings when the quest is complete. Please do not pester Rancid_Pickle. Direct all questions about this quest to me personally.
Requirements:
Quest Window - all entries must be posted between the timestamp on this node and July 13th, 2003. Please /msg me upon posting your submission, thanks!
Originality - cut and paste nodes will not be accepted. All direct quotes should be quoted and all sources must be cited.
E2 FAQ: How to cite your sources
E2 FAQ: Noding quotes
New Writeups - entries must be new writeups to E2, ones you posted to E2 before the start of this quest do not qualify.
Rewards:
Contributing a worthwhile writeup on E2 is of course its own reward, but up to three (3) writeups per participant may also receive:
Quality writeups will receive a blessing from Rancid_Pickle.
Comprehensive writeups will receive at least one 10 XP blessing and possibly an additional 20 XP blessing from Rancid_Pickle, and a C! from me.
(eventually, since I only have one a day - but several noders have agreed to help me by giving some of their own to deserving nodes!)
Comprehensive writeups by level 1 noders, will receive an additonal 10 XP blessing on top of the 10 or 20 XP (plus an upvote and possible Ching from Rancid_Pickle). We want you to get those feet wet!
Blessings will be bestowed within 10 days of the close of the quest.
Oolong requests that anyone writing up a scientist submit a one-line summary of the scientist and their achievements to the scientists index, maintainted by the E2science group.
Reserving a subject:
Writing a detailed biography can take a lot of time, so if you'd like to reserve a particular Nobel Prize winner to help avoid having someone else duplicate your effort - please /msg me with the name and I will post it here.
I intend to maintain this list of reserved nobel prize winners as long as it remains beneficial. Please notify me when you've finished your node or no longer wish to reserve the subject.
Louis Renault - Peace (1907) reserved by AM Nero
Emily Greene Balch - Peace (1946) reserved by momomom
Albert Schweitzer - Peace (1952) reserved by Borgo
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Literature (1903) reserved by Lectrice
Rabindranath Tagore - Literature (1913) reserved by diotina
Bertrand Russell - Literature (1950) reserved by althorrat
Juan Ramón Jiménez - Literature (1956) reserved by Gamaliel
Nadine Gordimer - Literature (1991) reserved by endive
Dario Fo - literature (1997) reserved by Basement Johnny
Stanley Prusiner - Medicine (1997) reserved by eiram
Sir John Sulston - Medicine (2002)reserved by BaronWR
Werner Karl Heisenberg - Physics (1932) reserved by gwenllian
William Shockley - Physics (1956) reserved by wetperch
Sheldon Glashow - Physics (1979) reserved by sneak241
Masatoshi Koshiba - Physics (2002) reserved by Shro0m
Hans Fischer - Chemistry (1930) reserved by QuietLight
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen - Chemistry (1945) reserved by rahmat
Amartya Sen - Economics (1998)reserved by GaudeamusIgitur
(the list of prize winners followed)
See also Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel and Alfred Nobel's Will.