Nobel Prize winners

Nobel Prize winners

The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901.

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Giorgos Seferis

People; Nobel Prize winners

Giorgos Seferis was the pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs (March 13 1900 – September 20, 1971). He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was also a ...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

History; African history

Born on January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. is an American clergyman and leader of the African American Civil Rights Movement. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's teachings on civil disobedience, King ...

Pablo Neruda

People; Nobel Prize winners

Pablo Neruda was the nom de plume and later the legal name of the Chilean diplomat, poet and politician Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. The czech poet Jan Neruda is the cause for his pen name. In ...

Roger Martin du Gard

People; Nobel Prize winners

Roger Martin du Gard (23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Saint-John Perse

People; Nobel Prize winners

Saint-John Perse (31 May 1887–20 September 1975) was a French poet, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."

Dario Fo

People; Nobel Prize winners

Dario Fo (born 24 March 1926) is an Italian actor-playwright, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter and political campaigner, and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.

François Mauriac

People; Nobel Prize winners

François Charles Mauriac (11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French author, member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded ...