In what year, and discipline, did the main character in "A Beautiful Mind" win a Nobel Prize?
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John Forbes Nash Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician who works in game theory and differential geometry. He shared the 1994 Nobel prize in Economics with two other game theorists, Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. He is best known in popular culture as the subject of the Hollywood movie, A Beautiful Mind, about his mathematical genius and his struggles with mental illness.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash
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Richard Dawkins!!!\n\nOooooh!  I'll get you my pretty!  And your little dog too!
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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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Try this site:\nhttp://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
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she is a scientist in physics who had a noble prize
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Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise such key features as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. It is a subject of much research in philosophy, psychology, neurology, and cognitive science. Consciousness differs itself from moral conscience, often designed by the expression of a "voice of conscience" telling the good from the evil.
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Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (phusikos), "natural", and φύσις (phusis), "nature") is the science of Nature in the broadest sense. Physicists study the behavior and properties of matter in a wide variety of contexts, ranging from the sub-nuclear particles from which all ordinary matter is made (particle physics) to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole (cosmology).
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Type in this:\nhttp://pro.corbis.com\nSearch for Nobel prize\nYou'll see a medal there or maybe a better picture.
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Ferris Bueller!\n\nHere's another good quote:\n\n"Crying?! There's no crying in baseball!"
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Norman Mailer\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer
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Thomas A. Edison\n\nHow do you give me 12 pts?
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but alterations of earlier patents (most famously the light bulb), or were actually the work of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,097 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
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Confucius.\n\nThanks for the easy 2 points.
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Genghis Kahn.\n\nSure, he was a psychotic bastard, who's wars killed several million people, but he was a strategic genius.
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Rudolph Virchow?\n\nhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Virchow.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Virchow
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And yes....\n\nBertrand Russell (1872-1970), a British mathematician and philosopher, was applauded as one of the world’s profound thinkers. In 1959 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature on the basis that he was “a defender of humanity and freedom of thought.” He authored more than 40 books covering such subjects as philosophy, education, sex, and morality.
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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....