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Dr. Rosalyn Yalow (19 July 1921 - 30 May 2011) was awarded the #NobelPrize in Medicine 1977 "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones". RIA is used to measure small concentrations of substances in the body, such as hormones in the blood. Rosalyn Yalow and Solomon Berson tracked insulin by injecting radioactive iodine into patients' blood. Because the method is so precise, they were able to prove that type 2 diabetes is caused by the body's inefficient use of insulin. Previously it was thought that the disease was caused by a lack of insulin. #Nobel #Medicine #Doctor #Yalow #Portrait #Diabetes #Science #WomenInScience #OnThisDay
#MandelaDay Nelson Mandela was born #OnThisDay 18 July 1918 in Qunu, South Africa. Photo: On 27 April 1994, Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the first South African elections held without the discrimination of voters on grounds of race. It was the first time Mandela had voted in his life. Mandela was awarded the #NobelPeacePrize 1993 for negotiating the dismantling of South Africa's apartheid regime. He later became the country's first democratically elected President. #NobelPrize #Nobel #NelsonMandela #Mandela #Vote #SouthAfrica Photographer: Paul Weinberg. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The novelist Shmuel Yosef Agnon was born #OnThisDay 17 July 1888. Agnon announced that his writerly identity was above all a Jewish identity. However, his writing was as well highly influenced by Europeans authors such as Gustave Flaubert and Knut Hamsun. Learn more about him on nobelprize.org #NobelPrize #Nobel #Books #Novels #Literature #Ceremony #video
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Albert Einstein's certificate of maturity from the Cantonal School of Aargau, 3 October 1896. Albert was 17 years old at the time. 6 is the highest mark and 1 is the lowest mark. English translation of the document: The Council of Education of the Canton of Aargau hereby certifies: Mr. Albert Einstein of Ulm, born 14 March 1879, attended the Cantonal School of Aargau, namely, the IIIrd and IVth class of the Commercial School. On taking the written and oral exam of maturity on 18, 19 and 21 September, and on 30 September 1896, he received the following grades: German language and literature: 5 French language and literature: 3 English language and literature: — Italian language and literature: 5 History: 6 Geography: 4 Algebra: 6 Geometry (planimetry, trigonometry, stereometry and analytical geometry): 6 Descriptive geometry: 6 Physics: 6 Chemistry: 5 Natural history: 5 In drawing: 4* In technical drawing: 4* *The performance over the course of the year is considered. #NobelPrize #Nobel #Einstein #AlbertEinstein #Grades #Certificate #Document @alberteinstein Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Liu Xiaobo, Nobel laureate and Chinese political prisoner, dies aged 61. Photo: As a tribute to the absent Nobel Laureate, Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Medal and Diploma were placed on an empty chair during the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony in Oslo, Norway, 10 December 2010. Photo: Ken Opprann.
The 2014 Peace Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai spends her 20th birthday in Iraq meeting girls forced out of school. Today they celebrated with bumper cars and cotton candy. #MalalaDay #Malala #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize #Nobel #Education #HumanRights #Repost @malalafund [📸: @malinfezehai ]
Happy 20th Birthday, Malala! Malala Yousafzai shared the 2014 #NobelPeacePrize with Kailash Satyarthi "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education". Video depicting a part of Malala's 2014 Nobel Lecture on every child’s right to go to school. @malalafund #NobelPrize #Nobel #Lecture #Video #Malala #Peace #Education #MalalaDay
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Albert Einstein delivering his Nobel Lecture to the Nordic Assembly of Naturalists in Gothenburg, Sweden, #OnThisDay 11 July 1923. Einstein was awarded the 1921 #NobelPrize in Physics for his many contributions to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. #Nobel #Lecture #AlbertEinstein #Einstein #Physics #Science Photographer: Anders Wilhelm Karnell, Source: Gothenburg Library Archive, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
#ThrowBack to 2015 Coffee and almond flavoured cherry blossom, a mayflower-inspired dessert for the 2015 Nobel Banquet by confectioner Daniel Roos. It will be exciting to see how the dessert will look like for the Nobel Banquet 2017 on 10 December. #NobelPrize #Nobel #Banquet #NobelDessert #Food #Dessert #tbt @dan_lepp_fotograf @pastrydesign Photo: Dan Lepp Copyright © Nobel Media 2015
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#OnThisDay 10 July 1908, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes liquefied helium and thus opened an entirely new chapter in low-temperature physics. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1913 "for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium". #NobelPrize #Nobel #Science #Physics #Helium #bw #Photography Photo: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (left) and Johannes Diderik van der Waals (right) in front of the helium-'liquefactor', Leiden 1908. Photographer unknown Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Einstein, Curie, Bohr, Planck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger… 17 of the 29 participants at the 1927 Solvay Conferences in Physics, were or became Nobel Laureates. — Back row, left to right: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin. Middle row, left to right: Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr. Front row, left to right: Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson. #Nobel #NobelPrize #Science #Scientific #Conference #Physics #Einstein #Curie Photo: Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay, Leopold Park, Brussels, Belgium. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Since 1901, 4 individuals have been awarded the Nobel Prize twice: Marie Curie, Physics Prize 1903 and Chemistry Prize 1911. Linus Pauling, Chemistry Prize 1954 and Peace Prize 1962. John Bardeen, Physics Prize 1956 and Physics Prize 1972. Frederick Sanger, Chemistry Prize 1958 and Chemistry Prize 1980. Photo: Official Nobel portrait of Linus Pauling #NobelPrize #Nobel #NobelPeacePrize #NobelFacts #Science #Knowledge
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