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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: The Nobel School
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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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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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The Nobel School 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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The Nobel School
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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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The Nobel School Ernest Rutherford
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The Nobel School Martin Luther King
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The Nobel School 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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The Nobel School Marie C urie
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Where is the life we have lost in the living?
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The Nobel School
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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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The Nobel School Amartya Sen
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The Nobel School James Watson
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