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Pearl S. Buck - Wikipedia  Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, ... She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. .... In 1949, outraged that existing adoption services considered Asian and mixed-race children unadoptable, Buck co-founded Welcome House, Inc., the...
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Pearl S. Buck - Author, Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist ...  Jul 8, 2014 ... In 1938, Buck became the first American female Nobel laureate. ... Also in support of these causes, in 1949, Buck started the adoption agency Welcome House, which specialized in the adoption of Asian-American children. In 1964, she established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation to further "address the issues...
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Ralph Bunche - Wikipedia  Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He was the first African American to be so honored in the history of the prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations. .... In 1940, Bunche contributed, as an investigative researcher and writer, to...
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Alfred Nobel - Wikipedia  Alfred Bernhard Nobel (/nobl/; Swedish: [alfrd nbl] listen (help. info); 21 October 1833  10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist.
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: | The Pritzker Architecture Prize  Pei was born in Canton China in 1917 and came to the United States in 1935 to ... (B. Arch. 1940) and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (M. Arch. 1946). ... Boston, The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center (1989) in Dallas, Texas; the...
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Nobel Prize controversies - Wikipedia  After his death in 1896, the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prizes. Nobel's will specified that annual prizes are to be awarded for service to ..... Nobel Peace Prize controversies often reach beyond the academic community. Criticism that .... The 1989 prize was awarded to the 14th Dalai Lama.
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Pearl S. Buck - Author, Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist ...  Jul 8, 2014 ... She was also the fourth female to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. ... Famous Pulitzer Prize Winners  Famous People Born in West Virginia ... In 1938, Buck became the first American female Nobel laureate. ... At the time of her birth, her parents, both Presbyterian missionaries, were taking a leave from their...
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Nobel Peace Prize - Wikipedia  The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, ... Due to its political nature, the Nobel Peace Prize has, for most of its history, been .... Geir Lundestad, Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2006 said, ... Later, when the Dalai Lama was awarded the Peace Prize in 1989, the...
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Nobel Prize controversies - Wikipedia  After his death in 1896, the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prizes. Nobel's will specified that annual prizes are to be awarded for service to ... No Nobel Prize was established for mathematics and many other scientific and cultural fields. ..... The 1989 prize was awarded to the 14th Dalai Lama.
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Ralph Bunche - Wikipedia  Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He was the first African American to be so honored in the history of the prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations. .... In 1950, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, for his work in resolving...
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Michael Nobel - Wikipedia  Michael Nobel is a Swedish-Russian entrepreneur. He is a member of the Nobel family, .... Additionally, Nobel has received the keys to the city from not only one, but two Hollywoods  California and from Hollywood in Broward County. ... people  1940 births  Magnetic resonance imaging  Harvard Business School alumni...
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Alfred Nobel's Life and Work - for Grade schoolers - Nobelprize.org  On October 21, 1833 a baby boy was born to a family in Stockholm, Sweden who was to become a famous scientist, inventor, businessman and founder of the Nobel Prizes. His father was Immanuel Nobel and his mother was Andriette Ahlsell Nobel. They named their son Alfred. Alfred's father was an engineer and inventor.
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All Nobel Peace Prizes - Nobelprize.org  Collage: Martin Luther King Jr., Lech Walesa, Henry Dunant, Mother Teresa ... "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to ... "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education" .... Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler...
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Ralph Bunche: UN Mediator in the Middle East ... - Nobelprize.org  Dec 9, 2006 ... In 1950 the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the first non-white person, the African-American and United Nations (UN) official ... In the 1930s Bunche became a recognized authority on race...
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The Nobel Prizes: A family tradition - USATODAY.com  Oct 4, 2006 ... Six fathers-and-sons, four married couples and two brothers have won ... Niels Bohr won the Nobel physics prize in 1922 and his son Aage...
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Dalai Lama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize - NYTimes.com  Published: October 6, 1989 ... The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the 54-year-old Tibetan Buddhist leader, who fled to India in 1959 after an ... The five-member committee that awards the Peace Prize consists of Norwegian academics and...
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Jane Addams - Biographical - Nobelprize.org  (Laura) Jane Addams (September 6, 1860-May 21, 1935) won worldwide ... as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist. ... By its second year of existence, Hull-House was host to two thousand people ... December 10, 1931, that the Nobel Peace Prize was being awarded to her in Oslo.