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

Alfred NOBEL left money for prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace later: Economics The Nobel Foundation gave permission for: The Nobel School

Alexander Fleming James Watson Marie C urie The Nobel School T.S. Eliot Mother Teresa Amartya Sen Ernest Rutherford Martin Luther King

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Ernest Rutherford

The Atom One of the largest atoms is the caesium atom and 10 million of these would fit between a serration on a postage stamp and the next serration

Ernest Rutherford I know of no more enthralling adventure of the human mind than the voyage of discovery into the almost unexplored world of the atomic nucleus

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Using Marie Curie’s Alpha Particles

Atom Most of the atom is empty space. The rest consists of a positively charged nucleus of protons and neutrons surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons.

‘In the stillness, there is only the dance’ TS Eliot All things are made of atoms, little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart but repelling each other upon being squeezed into one another.

If the nucleus were one pea, the atom would be the size of Wembley Stadium! ten million atoms would fit between each serration on a postage stamp If a nucleus were one pea its atom would be Wembley Stadium and…

Ernest Rutherford Generosity: he did not add his name to many discoveries he initiated Kindness: he helped scientists and academics escape from Nazi Germany He is buried in Westminster Abbey

Alexander Fleming Do not wait for fortune to smile upon you; prepare yourself with knowledge

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 infectious diseases”

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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

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.

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

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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.

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

Where is the life we have lost in the living?

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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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. Amartya Sen

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