who was the first person to get the nobel peace prize??? and what year was that?
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According to the official website, the first Nobel Peach Prize was awarded in 1901 to Frédéric Passy (and Jean Henry Dunant). Click on the link below for more information on the history of the Nobel Peach Prize.
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Perhaps Nelson Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize as some form of compensation for spending 25 (3?) years in prison as a 'terrorist'?\n\nPlease don't misunderstand me; I never thought of Mandela as a terrorist, although the government of my country DID for many years - maybe he was awarded the prize out of the collective guilt of the western world.
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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2006/for \n\n"his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription"
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Nobel Peace Prize for coming up with a way for the blind to read.
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The following 3 (Three) persons were the Nobel Laureates of Indian origin for science and allied subjects - \n\n1) Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman\nCitation : "...for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him". \nSir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1930. He had been knighted only the year before and worked extensively on acoustics and light. He was also deeply interested in the physiology of the human eye. A traditionally-dressed man, he headed an institute that is today named after him: the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.\n\n2) Hargobind Khorana\nCitation : "...for their [Khorana's, Robert W. Holley's and Marshall W. Nirenberg's] interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis". \nHargobind Khorana (born 1922), a person of Indian origin, shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on genes. He had left India in 1945 and became a naturalised United States citizen in the 1970s. He contines to head a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.\n\n3) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (October 19, 1910, (Lahore, India, (now Pakistan), – August 21, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, United States) was an Indian-American physicist, astrophysicist and mathematician, known to the world as Chandra, who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with William Alfred Fowler).
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Rutherford and Bohr did much of the early theoretical work on the structure of the atom but the real breakthrough was in 1938 when the Austrian physicist Lise Meitner and the German chemist Otto Hahn bombarded uranium with neutrons and caused it to splinter into barium and krypton. \n\nShe coined the term "fission" for this process. borrowing a term from biology. When the Nobel Prize was awarded for this joint work over 30 years, after WW2, he was awarded it and she was omitted. Being female and Jewish had caused her career to be eclipsed by his.
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The question doesnt make sense to me but the first person to reach the south pole was Roald Amundsen on the 14th December 1911.
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Yeh, interesting question.  Here is a good response, taken from the Boston Globe:\n\nSort of, but as is so often the case, it's a little more subtle than a simple yes/no answer.\n\nEinstein did receive the Nobel prize in physics in 1921, and the actual citation from the Nobel committee was ''for services to Theoretical Physics, and especially of the law of the photoelectric effect."\n\nDuring 1905 alone Einstein probably made enough scientific leaps to justify three Nobel prizes, writing several papers that would change the world. Certainly the case could be made that he should have had several more for work done afterward, but most people like to think of that year as ''the big one" that made certain he would get a Nobel prize no matter what.\n\nOne 1905 paper dealt with the ''photoelectric effect" and is the work that was clearly cited for the prize. In this work he showed that, although most scientists believed light acted like a wave, one must also at times treat light as being made of little chunks of electromagnetic energy called photons. This was the beginning of the strange subject of quantum mechanics which made it essential to drop many preconceived notions of what made sense in order to really understand how the world worked.\n\nAnother paper of 1905 introduced Einstein's special theory of relativity (special in that it could not deal with acceleration, but only with constant velocity's) and introduced the radical idea of merging space and time into one thing: space-time.\n\nYet another 1905 paper showed that one could infer the existence of atoms -- something still controversial at the time -- by looking at the random motion of grains of pollen in a drop of water.\n\nEinstein kept working to develop his general theory of relativity, which extended the special theory to include acceleration and gravity, but this took a bit of time to get sorted out -- it was published in 1915 and introduced the idea of curved space-time.\n\nThis list of achievements is nowhere near complete, but space restrictions make me stop here.\n\nMany people feel that the Nobel committee wanted to hedge its bets a bit by just picking out just one of the mind-blasting 1905 breakthroughs (which were all still controversial 15 years later) and lumping the rest together as ''Theoretical Physics." Oddly enough, it's the ideas of quantum mechanics, ushered in by the Nobel-cited photoelectric effect paper, that are perhaps the most controversial today!
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Ever hear of the Nobel Prize? It´s instigated in the honor of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel who "discovered" dynamite. Here´s some facts:\n\nNobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr (diatomaceous earth) it became safer and more convenient to manipulate, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as dynamite.\n\nSeveral explosions were reported at their family-owned factory in Heleneborg, and a disastrous one in 1864 killed Alfred's younger brother Emil and several other workers.
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On April 12, 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first person to orbit Earth. His flight in Vostok 1 lasts less than 2 hr.
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Actually, he got the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the photoelectric effect, which showed light to be a particle.  That more or less ushered in most of modern physics...
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The transistor was invented by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, who was not a Nobel Prize winner.\n\nThe integrated circuit was first created by two scientists working independently: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. Jack Kilby co-won the Nobel Prize in 2000, but Robert Noyce has not as of yet won it.\n\nNote to 07_Shelby_GT500: \nWilliam Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell labs built the first practical transistor, but they did not invent it.
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Sorry couldn't resist -\n\nIt was Watson and CRICK and Maurice Wilkins was also awarded the Nobel prize for the structure of DNA. Rosalind Franklin was also heavily involved and would have made the whole situation much more complicated if she hadn't died.\n\nNobel prize winners are a good place to start but are not an exclusive list of those contributing greatly to the study of biology.\n\nPoor answer I know, didn't give any names - sorry....
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On the Nobel Prize site\nhttp://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html
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Jean Henri Dunant (May 8, 1828 in Geneva - October 30, 1910 in Heiden), also known as Henry Dunant or Henri Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist. During a business trip in 1859, he was witness to the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern day Italy. He recorded his memories and experiences in the book "A Memory of Solferino" which became the inspiration for the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The 1864 Geneva Convention was based on Dunant's ideas and in 1901 he received the first Nobel Peace Prize together with Frédéric Passy.
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There is no Nobel Prize in engineering.  The Nobel Prize Committee does not accept nominations.  If someone deserves a Nobel, they already know about him.
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Nominations for the prize may be made by a broad array of qualified individuals, including former recipients, members of national assemblies and congresses, university professors, international judges, and special advisors to the prize committee. In some years as many as 199 nominations have been received. The nominations are kept secret by the committee which asks that nominators do the same. Over time many individuals have become known as "Nobel Peace Prize Nominees", but this designation has no official standing. Nominations from 1901 to 1951 have been released in a database. When the past nominations were released it was discovered that Adolf Hitler was once nominated in 1939, though the nomination was retracted in February of the same year. Other infamous nominees included Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini.\n\n\nThe Norwegian Nobel Committee, whose members are chosen by the Norwegian Parliament, is appointed to select the laureate for the Peace Prize, and the prize is awarded by its chairman, currently Dr. Ole Danbolt Mjøs. At the time of Alfred Nobel's death Sweden and Norway were in a personal union in which the Swedish government was solely responsible for foreign policy, and the Norwegian Parliament was responsible for Norwegian domestic policy. While Alfred Nobel never told anybody why he didn't give a Swedish body the task of awarding the Peace Prize, one of the suggested reasons has been to prevent the manipulation of the selection process by foreign powers. Other suggestions point to the fact that the Norwegian Assembly (Storting) was the first national legislature to vote support for the international peace movement and Nobel's admiration of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, the Norwegian patriot and leading author at that time.