1. Nobel prize winners Vilena Krasovskaya, 11 th form

2. Sir John Richard Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist and one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century.

3. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomic. In 1972 he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (jointly) for his pioneering contribution to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory.

4. Women Nobel Prize Winner for Science Marie Sklodowska Curie (Physics, 1903; and Chemistry, 1911) Marie Curie is considered the most famous of all women scientists. She was the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes.

5. By the time she was 16, Marie had already won a gold medal at the Russian lycee in Poland upon the completion of her secondary education. In 1891 she began her education at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1903, her discovery of radioactivity earned her the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911, she won it for chemistry.

6. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

7. He had a significant influence on the development of twentieth- century fiction writing. Many of his works are now considered canonical in American literature.

8. Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian Пётр Леонидович Капица) (July 9, 1894 – April 8, 1984) was an innovative Soviet/Russian physicist and Nobel laureate, who made important discoveries in a number of different areas.

9. Kapitsa made a series of experiments to study the properties of liquid helium that led to discovery of the superfluidity of helium in 1937, and in a series of papers he reported the properties of this new state of matter.

10. For these reports in 1978 Kapitsa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics". He shared the prize with Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson, who won for entirely unrelated work.