This 1909 Nobel Prize winner once failed the entrance exams at the Univ. of Bologna, Italy
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Guglielmo Marconi - Wikipedia  Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is often credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize ... After returning to Italy, at age 18 University of Bologna physicist Augusto...
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Jeopary Questions page 878 - SEWING - TriviaBistro.com  HISTORIC NAMES: This 1909 Nobel Prize winner once failed the entrance exams at the Univ. of Bologna, Italy  SNAP: This TV series that debuted September...
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Guglielmo Marconi: radio star - physicsworld.com  Nov 30, 2001 ... But at least one did, and with good reason: he made radio happen. ... Marconi's 1909 Nobel prize seems all the more extraordinary when you ... it with, Ferdinand Braun - Marconi was not, by his own admission, any kind of .... His mother got to know a professor of physics at Bologna University, Augusto...
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Guglielmo Marconi Inventor of Radio and Wireless Communication ...  Guglielmo Marconi is one of the most important inventors of the modern age. ... Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy. ... Although he failed the University of Bologna entrance exam, he decided to continue ... of the radio, for which he was awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in physics. ... Series, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists Ser.
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Guglielmo Marconi - Biographical - Nobelprize.org  Nobel Prizes and Laureates ... The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 ... Guglielmo Marconi was born at Bologna, Italy, on April 25, 1874, the second son of ... where he succeeded in sending wireless signals over a distance of one and a half miles. ... He has been the recipient of honorary doctorates of several universities and...
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Nobel Prize Facts - Nobelprize.org  On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest ... List of all Nobel Laureates sorted by country of birth ... coerced by the authorities of the Soviet Union, his native country, to decline the Nobel Prize. ... Before 1974, the Nobel Prize has only been awarded posthumously twice: to Dag...
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Galileo biography - University of St Andrews  When he reached the age of ten, Galileo left Pisa to join his family in Florence ... He became a novice, intending to join the Order, but this did not please his father ... Galileo was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Padua (the ... On 7 December 1592 he gave his inaugural lecture and began a period of...
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Linus Pauling - Biographical - Nobelprize.org  Linus Pauling (February 28, 1901- )*, the only person who has won two undivided ... In 1950 he constructed the first satisfactory model of a protein molecule, ... During World War II, Pauling participated in scientific enterprises deemed vital .... <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1962/pauling-bio.html>...
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Nobel Prize - Wikipedia  The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, and/or scientific advances. The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. ... On 10 December 1896, Alfred Nobel died in his villa in San Remo, Italy, from...
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the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909 - Nobelprize.org  Some 50 years later Wilhelm Ostwald carried out a number of studies to ... reaction has become increasingly important for theoretical chemistry; these tests, however, ... study of catalytic phenomena and he extended its scope to other catalysts,...
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Linus Pauling - Wikipedia  The only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes. External video. Sickle Cell Blood Smear.JPG. Linus Pauling, Oregon Experience, Oregon Historical Society. Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901  August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, ... For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in...
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Galileo (print-only)  After studying music in Venice he carried out experiments on strings to support ... When he reached the age of ten, Galileo left Pisa to join his family in Florence ... Galileo began teaching mathematics, first privately in Florence and then during ... about falling bodies using an inclined plane to slow down the rate of descent.
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Linus Pauling - Wikipedia  The only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes. External video. Sickle Cell Blood Smear.JPG. Linus Pauling, Oregon Experience, Oregon Historical Society. Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901  August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, ... He is one of only four individuals to have won more than one Nobel Prize...
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 - Nobelprize.org  The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was awarded to Albert Einstein "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". ... Albert Einstein therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1921 one year later, in 1922.
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Galileo Galilei (15641642) - NCBI - National Institutes of Health  He left Pisa in 1585 without completing his medical degree and began teaching ... In 1589, Galileo was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics at the University of Pisa ... In 1592, Galileo was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of ... at Padua and became Chief Mathematician at the University of Pisa (without...
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jeopardy/2913_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  NON-NOBEL-WINNING AUTHORS | After this epic Russian novelist didn't win in 1901, he wrote a letter declining the prize thereafter ... Bjornstjerne Bjornson won in 1903; this fellow Norwegian who wrote "The Master Builder" never did | Henrik Ibsen ... PAINTINGS | In 1873 Renoir painted this fellow French impressionist...
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Enrico Fermi - Physicist, Scientist - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... Physicist Enrico Fermi built the prototype of a nuclear reactor and ... He won the Nobel Prize in 1938 for his work in radioactivity, ... In 1918, Fermi won a scholarship to the prestigious Scuola Normale Superiore University in Pisa, Italy. His ... to the doctoral program, and he graduated with honors in 1922.
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Facts on the Nobel Peace Prizes - Nobelprize.org  Oct 5, 2009 ... On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, ... If, even then, the prize cannot be awarded, the amount shall be .... The Norwegian Nobel Committee received valid nominations of 376 ... 1938, 1939, 1947 and, finally, shortly before he was assassinated in ... Italy: Benito Mussolini.
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Max Born facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Get information, facts, and pictures about Max Born at Encyclopedia.com. ... semesters at Heidelberg and Zurich, in 1904 Born entered the University of Gttingen, ... the philosophical faculty to set this problem as the subject of a prize competition. .... of the quantum theory, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954.
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Enrico Fermi | Italian-American physicist | Britannica.com  Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi explaining a problem in physics, c. ... After receiving a doctorate in 1922, Fermi used fellowships from the Italian Ministry of .... then in Leonia, N.J., Fermi began his new life at Columbia University, in New York City. ... When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, nuclear...
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Ernest Hemingway - Guide to Nobel Prize  Photograph:Ernest Hemingway at the American Red Cross Hospital in Milan, recuperating ... impatient for a less-sheltered environment, he did not enter college but went to ... Video:Author, professor, and editor Blake Nevius examining My Old Man, by .... In an atmosphere of impending disaster, he blows up the bridge but is...