why was gandhi never awarded nobel prize?
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I can not answer myself, but as it is a really interesting question I just googled-it... and found these two great links.\nThe first one is an article from the main page of the nobel.org: Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate\nby Øyvind Tønnesson,Nobel e-Museum Peace Editor, 1998-2000\n\nOf course may be is a lot of the story we'll never know!!
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While there is no Nobel Prize specifically for biology, Sune K. Bergström and Bengt I. Samuelsson from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine equally with John R Vane from the Wellcome Research Laboratories in the UK for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances.
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Sonia gandhi ,lal krishna advani
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Linus Pauling got the Nobel Prize in 1954 for his studies of the nature of chemical bonds in general, and for his application of this new-found understanding to be able to understand the structures of many complex chemicals, including proteins and enzymes.\n\nThe Nobel Committe's short biography of Prof. Pauling is here:\nhttp://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1954/pauling-bio.html\n\n(The other answer about Northrop was mistaken; he shared half the 1946 prize with Wendell Stanley for simply preparing enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form- the chemical nature of these enzyme proteins wasn't yet understood.  The other half of that years prize went to James Sumner for discovering that enzymes could be crystallized.  Many years later when X-ray crystallography became availble (also thanks in part to Pauling) this would help further describe enzyme structure, but not back then.)
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President A P J Abdul Kalam today bestowed Padma Awards, the nation's highest civilian honours, on 96 prominent personalities for their valuable contributions in different walks of life.\n\nAt a glittering ceremony at the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the President honoured nine Padma Vibhushan awardees, 30 Padma Bhushan awardees and 57 Padma Shri winners. Nobody had been chosen in the Republic Day honours this year for the Bharat Ratna, the nation's highest civilian award.\n\nGo to http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/mar282005/i22.asp for more details
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Wow...I am sending this to the Nobel Commitee.....your genius has not been fully explored....Send that guy a grant!!
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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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Looks like you have a lot of questions about Gandhi :)\n\nComing to this one: \nThe British insisted that they brought all the small king under one rule and if they go away suddenly, then these kings would fight for the power.\nAlso there were the Hindu-Muslim differrences that were cropping up. \n\nThe British claimed that they would make india free after solving these problems.But they never agreed that they were the problem.
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mohandas karamchand gandhi
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The link below lists all of the Nobel Prize winners from 1900 to 2005.\n\nThere are three prizes that are offered for "science" - chemistry, physics, and medicine.
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yes thats true. but if everyone thinks in this way then there wont be anything. there must be someone who has to initiate or make an attempt. there r people in this world who may extend their hands to help and r satisfied with u. even history says that. gandhiji started solo but he soon got many followers.same way martin luther was one.
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Gandhiji's ideas were noble....but I dont think they really fit in todays world..also he had many dark sides of his personality.\n\nWe need to follow Krishna in Kaliyuga.
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In 1930, gandhi marched to the sea and made salt.  in 1947, the proud people of india won their independence from their imperialist oppressors half a world away.  in 17 short years, gandhi "led" the people of india to freedom from a country 1/15 its size with 1/7 the population.  17 short years, preceded by centuries of rule by outsiders.  what a proud and glorious time, to "win" freedom from a broken country that was on the verge of being wiped off the map, that was in shambles from the ravages of WWII.  the actions of gandhi had a profound impact on india, delaying freedom by years, reinforcing the indian subservient mentality.\n\nif gandhi were alive today, im sure he would fix the problem by the mighty weapon of "fasting" to teach the pharma companies a stern lesson.  "if you dont stop what you are doing, i wont eat"\n\nif gandhi were alive today, if india did rid itself of the shackles of abuse and oppression, he would refuse to deal with the aftermath of the problem and allow india to be split into many pieces, resulting in more than a million deaths and the displacement of many million people and the eventual creation of rival nations armed with nuclear weapons, constantly at war, he could add to his legacy greatly.\n\nthe way to prosperity and the ability of a nation to take care of itself comes from moving forward and making progress, not moving backwards and spinning your own thread.  india is moving forward in some sectors today because of education and progress into the 20th and 21st century.  the problem of clinical trials will end when the value of an indian life is more than the price that a pharma company is willing to pay to acquire such information.  today, the value of an indian life is lower because of the misguided backward thinking of people like gandhi.  it is lower because of overpopulation that comes from arbitrary use of vaccines and inoculations without thinking about the social change that needs to be coupled with it.  mostly, it is lower because of centuries of "training" by oppressors to be inferior.  it is time to cleanse india and indians of the poison that is this backwards thinking, instead of the artificial cleansing of clinical trials.  when the indian nation and people are able to evolve backwards,  ironically, to a time when they were proud and forward to a time when they are smart enough to make the right choices, the value of an indian life will be too high for a pharma company to "buy" it for their trials.\n\nthe rejection of this "new imperialism" comes not from embracing the "fasting" mentality, it comes from the embracing of the "we'll build automobile factories, aircraft carriers, increase our investment in infrastructure, create pharma companies that create drugs instead of just producing fake knockoffs of western drugs, and becoming part of the modern world" mentality.  for today, we do not ban clinical trials and cower away from reality, we run as fast as we can and apply our resources to fighting our true oppressor, our own weak minds.
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Teddy Roosevelt was the First US president to winthe Nobel prize.  He won it for negotiating the peace between Japan and Russia.\n\nHe was a gallant soldier leading a cavalry charge up San Juan hill and lets see, oh yeah, the  teddy bear was named after him when it became known that he refused to kill a baby bear during a hunting trip.
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you are right... anyone committed to peace, neither holds a gun or sells them to others.  gandhi was a perfect example of that.
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Gandhi was called Mahatma by several people. -\n\n1) Rabindranath Tagore-\nIn 1914 Gandhi returned to India. Through Andrews he met Rabindranath Tagore the following year, who called Gandhi a mahatma, "great soul," as the Theosophists had in South Africa. He was to become for millions of Indians simply the Mahatma. In 1919 he announced a Satyagraha struggle, resulting in the Amritsar massacre. By 1920 he was the dominant political figure, and the major campaigns of 1920-22, 1930-34, and 1940-42 led to British abdication. From the 1930's he was based at Sevagram, a village in central India, where he worked on a "constructive programme" to educate rural India, develop cottage industries, and fight untouchability.\n\n2)The Indian people called Gandhi Mahatma, meaning Great Soul. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was better known as Mahatma Gandhi. "Mahatma" means "Great-Souled One." His followers and admirers adorned him with this significant title, but the Mahatma's soulful humility vehemently disclaimed the title. To be absolutely correct, Mahatma Gandhi had two more names: Ahimsa, Non-Violence, and Satyagraha, Soul-Force.  \n\n3) In another context I read that Netaji Subash bose Called him first as Mahatma-
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He should be awarded the highest honour by the country, given the Nobel Peace Prize and accolades galore. Invitations from all top leaders in the world for upholding the cause of national integration....However the fact is different. Consulates or embassies are unwilling to grant him any travel or even a transit visa and is treated as a persona non grata. Speaks volumes about his credibility. And we live in a civilised world or at least are trying to in spite of aberrations taking place.