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Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-American writer, Professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, written mainly in French and English, including night, a work based on his experience as a Jew in the Aus ...

William Vickrey

William Spencer Vickrey was a canadian-born Professor of Economics and Nobel laureate. Vickrey was awarded the 1996 Nobel memorial prize in economic Sciences with James Mirrlees for their research into the economic theory of incentives under asym ...

Kenneth G. Wilson

Geddes Kenneth Ken Wilson is an American theoretical physicist and a pioneer in the use of computers for studying particle physics. He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1982 in physics for his work on phase transitions - illuminating the subtle esse ...

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Robert Woodrow Wilson, American astronomer, who with Arno Allan Penzias discovered the CMB in 1964. The pair won the Nobel prize for physics in 1978 for their discovery. Working on a new type of antenna at bell labs in Holmdel, state of new Jerse ...

Richard Willstatter

Prof Richard Martin Willstatter HFRSE FRS was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll, received the award of the Nobel prize in chemistry 1915. Willstatter, invented paper chromatography independently ...

Carl Wieman

Carl Edwin wieman is an American physicist and educator at Stanford University. In 1995 while at the University of Colorado in boulder, he and Eric Allin Cornell created the first condensate Bose–Einstein, and in 2001 they and Wolfgang Ketterle w ...

Adolf Windaus

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their connection with vitamins. He was doctoral Advisor Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel prize in chemistry in 1939. He ...

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, 15 Jan 1895 – 11 November 1973) is a Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate 1945 in chemistry "for his research and inventions in agriculture and chemistry of nutrients, especially for the method of preservation of food." He inv ...

Eric F. Wieschaus

Born in South bend, Indiana, he attended Catholic school John Carroll in Birmingham, al before attending the University of Notre Dame to study students B. S., biology, etc., Yale University philosophy of biology for the diploma thesis.

Kurt Wuthrich

Kurt Wuthrich is a Swiss chemist / biophysicist, Nobel prize laureate in chemistry, known for the development of methods for nuclear magnetic resonance for studies of biological macromolecules.

Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the Nobel prize in physics in 1971. College dénes gábor in Budapest, Hungary, named after him in honor of his work.

Gabriela Mistral

Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by his pseudonym Gabriela Mistral-Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. In 1945, she became the first Latin American author to receive the Nobel prize in literature "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by pow ...

University of Hamburg

University of Hamburg, University of Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General lecture system, the colonial Institute of Hamburg, and academic College. The main campus is located in the Central district o ...

Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian journalist, writer and oral historian who writes on Russian language. She was awarded the Nobel prize 2015 for literature "for its polyphonic compositions, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She ...

Maurice Allais

Maurice Felix Charles Allais is a French physicist and economist, in 1988 the Nobel prize in economic Sciences "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient use of resources", for Maurice Allais contributions, along wit ...

Hiroshi Amano

Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese physicist, engineer and inventor, specializing in semiconductor technology. For his work he was awarded together the Nobel prize in physics 2014 Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for "the invention of efficient blue lig ...

University of Amsterdam

University of Amsterdam is a public University located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Cream is one of two large publicly funded research universities in the city, another free University of Amsterdam. Founded in 1632 by municipal authorities and late ...

Amherst College

Amherst College AM ərst) - a private, liberal arts College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then President Zephaniah swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educat ...

University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide is a public University located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third oldest University in Australia. The main campus is located on North terrace in Adelaide city centre, close to Art gallery ...

Eric Betzig

Robert Eric Betzig-American physicist who works as a Professor of physics and Professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a senior research associate at the research campus Janelia farm in Ashburn ...

Technical University of Berlin

Technical University of Berlin is a research University located in Berlin, Germany. This is the first German University to accept the name" technical University”. The University alumni and Professor list include members of National academies, two ...

Arthur Harden

Sir Arthur harden FRS was a British biochemist. He shared the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1929 with Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for their studies of the fermentation of sugar and enzymes fermentation. He was one of the founders of th ...

Andre Geim

Sir Andre Geim and Konstantin, FRS, HonFRSC, HonFInstP Russian-born Dutch-British physicist working in England at the School of physics and astronomy at the University of Manchester. Geim was awarded the Nobel prize 2010 in physics jointly with K ...

Avram Hershko

Hershko Hersko was born Ferenc in Karcag, Hungary, the son of Shoshana Margit and Moshe Hershko, teachers. During the Second world war, his father was in forced labor service in the Hungarian army, then taken prisoner by the Soviet Army. Over the ...

Walter Rudolf Hess

Walter Rudolf Hess-Swiss physiologist, Nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs. He shared the prize with EGAS Moniz.

Roger Guillemin

Roger Charles Louis Guillemin-American neuroscientist. He received the National medal of science in 1976 and the Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year with Andrew schally and Rosalyn Sussman Y ...

Walter Gilbert

Walter Gilbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 21, 1932, the son of Emma Cohen, a child psychologist, and Richard V. Gilbert, an economist. When Gilbert was seven years old, the family moved to Washington, D.C., so his father could work ...

Roy J. Glauber

Roy Jay Glauber was an American theoretical physicist. He was a Mallinckrodt Professor of physics at Harvard University and adjunct Professor of optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Born in new York, he was awarded half of the Nobel pri ...

Global Energy Prize

The award "global energy" international prize, which is awarded for outstanding scientific innovations and solutions in global energy research and concurrent environmental problems. Since its creation in 2002 of the award "global energy" has beco ...

Sheldon Lee Glashow

Sheldon Lee Glashow, Nobel laureate, American physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of mathematics and physics at Boston University and the Eugene Higgins Professor of physics, Emeritus, at Harvard University and is a member of the Board of spon ...

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate 1991 in literature. She was recognized as a woman "which her magnificent epic writing – in the words of Alfred Nobel – a very great benefit to humanity". Gordimers ...

Robert H. Grubbs

Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS is an American chemist and Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of chemistry California Institute of technology in Pasadena, California. He was Co-recipient of the Nobel prize 2005 in chemistry for his work on metat ...

Ragnar Granit

Ragnar Arthur Granit was a Finnish / Swedish scientist who was awarded the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1967 along with haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for discoveries associated with the primary physiological and chemical vis ...

University of Graz

University in Graz, located in Graz, Austria, is the largest and oldest University in Styria, as well as the second largest and second oldest University in Austria. The University was founded in 1585 by Archduke Charles II of Austria. Bull 1 Janu ...

Carol W. Greider

Carolyn Widney "Carol" Greider is an American molecular biologist, Nobel prize laureate. It is Bloomberg distinguished Professor Daniel Natans, and head of the Department of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University. She discover ...

Paul Greengard

Paul Greengard was an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries con ...

David Gross

David Jonathan gross is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the Nobel prize in physics 2004 for the discovery of asymptotic freedom. Gross-Professor of the Department ...

John B. Goodenough

John Bannister Goodenough of the American scientist of materials, solid state physics, and Nobel laureate in chemistry. He is a Professor of mechanical engineering and of materials science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is widely credit ...

John Gurdon

Sir John Bertrand Gurdon, English biologist development. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. He was awarded the Lasker award in 2009. In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were awarded the Nobel prize in ...

Johann Deisenhofer

Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, membrane-associated co ...

Gustaf Dalen

Nils Gustav Dalen, 30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish Nobel laureate and industrialist, engineer, inventor and longtime Director of the Aga company and inventor of the Aga hotplates and the Dalen light. In 1912 he was awarded the N ...

Henrik Dam

Carl Peter Henrik dam Danish biochemist and physiologist. He was awarded in 1943 the Nobel prize in medicine for joint work with Edward Doisy in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology. Dams key experiment involved feeding a choles ...

Gerard Debreu

Gerard Debreu, a French-born economist and mathematician. Best known as a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he received the 1983 Nobel memorial prize in economic Sciences.

Raymond Davis Jr.

Raymond "ray" Davis, Jr. is an American chemist and physicist. He is known as the head of the Homestake experiment in the 1960s-1980s, years in which the first experiment to detect neutrinos emitted from the Sun, for he shared the Nobel prize 200 ...

Henry Hallett Dale

Sir Henry Hallett Dale, English physiologist and pharmacologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses he shared the Nobel prize in 1936 in physiology or medicine with Otto levy.

Max Delbruck

Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück, German–American biophysicist, helped launch the molecular research program in biology in the late 1930-ies. It stimulated the interest of physicists to biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain ge ...

Ivar Giaever

Ivar Giaever, Norwegian-American physicist who shared the Nobel prize in physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for his discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in solids". Giaevers share of the prize was specifically for his "exper ...

Brian Josephson

Brian David Josephson is a Welsh physicist, Professor of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1973 for his prediction ...

Otto Diels

Otto Paul Hermann Diels was a German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–alder reaction, the synthesis method diene. The pair was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1950 for their work. Their method of synthe ...

Angus Deaton

Sir Stuart Angus Deaton is a British-American economist and scholar. Deaton is currently a senior researcher and Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and international Affairs Emeritus at school Woodrow Wilson of public and international r ...