what do you know about alfred nobel?
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel (help·info) (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden – December 10, 1896, San Remo, Italy) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, pacifist, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, that he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element Nobelium was named after him.
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If somebody manages to answer you correctly with any concluding proof, be sure that he will win not only five stars but also a Nobel Prize!
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hey there is a whole big article that i cannot post you can get thru tis link\nhttp://nobelprize.org/chemistry/articles/malmstrom/index.html
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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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I was going to say the exact same.  Ghandi!  Fantastic leader, interesting journey and a lot of things to find to research him.  \nAlso Nelson Mandala, he's still alive today.  Not sure if that's criteria or not...\nAlso, Albert Einstein!  He's lead an interesting life to say the least, and theres plenty of ways you could write an essay on him\nGood luck!
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More people know this famous equation of Einstein's than any other in human history. This famous equation is even well known to children and the mass media. But Einstein did not receive a Nobel Proze for this incredible discovery of the energy-mass equivalence principle.\n\nThe most interesting thing is that not only did Einstein did not get the Nobel prize for e=mc2, he did not get it for his Theory of Special Relativity, the discovery that time is relative and depends on the motion of your reference frame. And no, he did not receive the Nobel prize for his Theory of General Relativity either, where he discovered that space and time forms a continuum onto which matter and energy can interact and vice versa.\n\nNo, no, no. None of these great scientific discoveries of the 20th century were considered Nobel prize worthy. Instead they gave Einstein the Nobel prize for the dicovery of the "Photo-electric Effect".\n\nThis must have been the greatest insult to Einstein, because the "photo-electric effect" is the precursor to Quantum Mechanics. As a matter of fact, the term "quanta" was first coined by Einstein in his paper on the photo-electric effect.\n\nThe only problem is that Einstein hated Quantum Mechanics, and yet he is awarded a Nobel Prize to commemorate him as one of the fathers of QM. Einstein literally spent the majority of his professional career trying to disapprove Quantum Mechanics. His head-to-head arguments with Neil Bohr about the correctness of QM was infamous!\n\nIt is very sad indeed, because it turns out that QM is one of the pillar of scientific discovery of the 20th century as well. And indeed, Einstein's career waned and died as he refused to acknowledge the validity of QM. Even on his death bed, Einstein struggled to develop a unified theory that can explains all physical phenonmenon without the use of Quantum Mechanics. Of course, he was doom to fail from the beginnning because QM is a fundamental fact of nature.\n\nSo why did Einstein hate QM so much? Mainly because Einstein did not believe that "God plays with dice". One of the basic tennents of QM is that the bevahiors of the subatomic world is based on probabilities, where nothing is deterministic. And this is so contrary to Einstein's worldview about the simplicity and beauty of the natural order that he simply did not accept it. This ultimately led to his downfall as Einstein was ignored and alienated by the scientific community toward the end of his life and career.
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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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Alfred Hershey\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/20465/hershey.html\n\nMartha Watson - are you sure this isn't Martha Chase?\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Chase
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John Nash. He's the subject of the book and movie, "A Beautiful Mind." Won Nobel Prize in Economics for the Nash Equilibrium.\n\nMartin Gardner. Regular contributor to "Scientific American."\n\nUnfortunately a lot of the math studied by most people predates the US, or was formed when the US was in its early days. \n\nI'm sure there are lots of American Mathematicians of note, but most of there work is way beyond most people's understanding or knowledge.\n\nIf you could Computer Science work withing mathematics, then there are more names to add, such as Knuth, Kleene and Karp (no association to the KKK.)
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have you tried to find any info on him in www.wikipedia.com
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William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi. Though his works are sometimes considered challenging or even opaque, he is regarded as one of America's most influential fiction writers.\n\nFaulkner was known for using long, serpentine sentences and meticulously chosen diction, in stark contrast to the minimalist style of his longtime rival, Ernest Hemingway. Some consider Faulkner to be the only true American Modernist prose fiction writer of the 1930s, following in the experimental tradition of European writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. His work is known for literary devices like stream of consciousness, multiple narrations or points of view, and narrative time shifts.\n\nLife\nFaulkner was born William Falkner (without "u") in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in and heavily influenced by that state, as well as by the ambience of the South. His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, was an important figure in the history of northern Mississippi who served as a colonel in the Confederate Army, founded a railroad, and gave his name to the town of Falkner in nearby Tippah County. Perhaps most importantly, he wrote several novels and other works, establishing a literary tradition in the family. Eventually, Colonel Falkner became the model for Colonel John Sartoris in his great-grandson's writing.\n\nIt is understandable that the younger Falkner was influenced by, and drew on, the history of his family and the region in which they lived. Mississippi marked his sense of humor, his sense of the tragic position of blacks and whites, his keen characterization of usual Southern characters and his timeless themes, one of them being that fiercely intelligent people dwelled behind the façades of good old boys and simpletons. The definite reason for Faulkner's change in the spelling of his last name is still unknown, but possibilities include adding it 1) to appear more British when entering the Royal Air Force, 2) so his name would come across as more aristocratic, or 3) keeping a misspelling an early editor had made.\n\nAlthough Faulkner is heavily identified with Mississippi, he was living in New Orleans in 1925 when he wrote his first novel, Soldiers' Pay. The small house at 624 Pirate's Alley, just around the corner from St. Louis Cathedral, is now the premises of Faulkner House Books, and also serves as the headquarters of the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society.\n\nFaulkner's most celebrated novels include The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), The Unvanquished (1938), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). Faulkner was a prolific writer of short stories: his first short story collection, These 13 (1932), includes many of his most acclaimed (and most frequently anthologized) stories, including "A Rose for Emily," "Barn Burning," "Red Leaves," "That Evening Sun," and "Dry September." In 1931 in an effort to make money, Faulkner crafted Sanctuary, a sensationalist "pulp fiction"-styled novel. Its themes of evil and corruption (bearing Southern Gothic tones) resonate to this day. A sequel to the book, Requiem for a Nun, is the only play that he published. It includes an introduction that is actually one sentence spanning more than a page. He received a Pulitzer Prize for A Fable, and won National Book Awards for his Collected Stories (1951) and A Fable (1955).\n\nFaulkner was also an acclaimed writer of mysteries, publishing a collection of crime fiction, Knight's Gambit, that featured Gavin Stevens (who also appeared in Light in August, Go Down, Moses, The Town, Intruder in the Dust, and the short story Hog Pawn), an attorney, wise to the ways of folk living in Yoknapatawpha County. He set many of his short stories and novels in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on—and nearly identical to in te
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Oscar Schmidt sounds really prestigious.
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alfred wegener\njust learned this myself (:
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Do you mean Franklin Delanor Roosevelt?? Look him up in Wikipedia, you will get a ton of info.
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Profile of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela\n\nA great man, go to these sites for more info:\n\nhttp://www.anc.org.za/people/mandela.html\n\nhttp://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1993/mandela-bio.html\n\nGood Luck!
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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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click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Kalam