The Nobel Prize

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Alfred NOBEL 1833-1896

• Aged 17 fluent in Swedish, Russian, French,
  English and German
• invented dynamite
• used for blasting rock in many types of
  construction .. and in weapons

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Alfred NOBEL 1833-1896

• left money for prizes in Physics, Chemistry,
  Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace
• later Economics
• The Nobel Foundation gave permission for
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Marie Curie

James Watson
T.S. Eliot
Mother Teresa
Alexander Fleming
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Amartya Sen
Martin Luther King
Ernest Rutherford
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Alexander Fleming
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Alexander Fleming

• Do not wait for fortune to smile
• upon you prepare yourself with knowledge

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Alexander Fleming

• When given the Noble prize, he was praised
  for co-operation (he sent his mould to other
  laboratories), for scientific enthusiasm and for
  firm belief in an idea

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Penicillin

• Fleming along with two other scientists won
  the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in
  1945 for the discovery of penicillin and its
  curative effect on various effective diseases

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Mother Teresa
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Mother Teresa

• Please don't kill the child. I want the
  child. Please give me the child. I am willing to
  accept any child who would be aborted, and to
  give that child to a married couple who will love
  the child, and be loved by the child. From our
  children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved
  over 3000 children

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In Calcutta

• People suffer. They have forgotten how to
  smile, they have forgotten the beauty of the
  human touch. They need someone who will
  understand and respect them.

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Mother Teresa

• I am grateful to accept the Nobel Prize in the
  name of the hungry, the homeless, the crippled,
  the blind, the lepers, of all those people who
  feel unwanted, unloved and uncared-for throughout
  society, people shunned by everyone.

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TS Eliot

• Skimbleshanks, the Railway Cat
• Mr. Mistofellees
• Macavity, the Mystery Cat
• Old Deuteronomy
• The Jellicle Cats

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Ernest Rutherford
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Martin Luther King
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T.S. Eliot
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T S Eliot

• We shall not cease from exploration
• And the end of all our exploring
• Will be to arrive where we first started
• And know the place for the first time.

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Amartya Sen about TS Eliot

• Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
• Where is the life we have lost in the living?
• TS Eliot

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Marie Curie
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• Where is the life we have lost in the living?

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Amartya Sen

• You cannot evaluate what is happening in an
  economy or a society without looking at people
  who are on the downside and not just those who
  are doing well and prospering.

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Amartya Sen
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James Watson