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Franklin should have been acknowledged, along with Watson, Crick, and Wilkins, for the discovery of the double helix and awarded a Nobel Prize, one must look what qualifies someone to win a Nobel Prize. In order for someone to be awarded the Nobel Prize they must first meet the qualifications. The qualifications are endless, but somewhat simple. In this case the Nobel Prize is for science. This prize is chosen by a group of people, and they seek to choose people whom create different views of topics

though Malala was aware that speaking out would put her and her family in danger, she continued to write a blog and raise awareness of the Taliban’s threats even after a gunman shot her in the head in October of 2012. She is now the youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate and continues to be an advocate for a girl’s right to education. The

The subject of the “American Dream” is so controversial that nowadays a unitary definition seems impossible. While Brandon King suggests in his essay “The American Dream: Dead, Alive, or on Hold?” wealth stimulates the economy and argues it is vitally important to maintain a rich minority and their business methods in order to lead America back into an affluent society, the past tells us otherwise. The essence of his article is that the original words by historian James Truslow in his book “The Epic

Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin was born in Cairo, Egypt on May 12th, 1910 to John Winter Crowfoot and Grace Mary Crowfoot. She spent most of her high school years in North Africa, where she studied crystals and rocks. In 1937, she married Thomas Hodgkin, a son of a historian. Together they had three children and three grandchildren. Hodgkin died on July 29th, 1994 in Ilmington, United Kingdom. Hodgkin’s work in x-ray crystallography assisted in determining the shape of three-dimensional structures and

school principle and his mother cooked and cleaned a school for the blind. Desmond Tutu was a bright and curious child with a passion for reading comics. Desmond Tutu is one of South Africa's most well-known human rights activists, winning the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in resolving and ending apartheid. he became the first Black Anglican Archbishop of both Cape Town and Johannesburg. hat was the source of this person’s power? How did this person achieve power? How did this person use

Bob Dylan is an American singer/songwriter best known for his rock and roll music starting from the early sixties. Though he is more famously known as a rock and roll star, Bob Dylan was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Bob Dylan will now go down in history with other literary laureates including, but not limited to, T.S. Elliot, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett, etc. Due to the honor and elevation associated with these men and their literary achievements, some people today do not believe

Crick (8 June 1916 — 28 July 2004) was an English scientist who was most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 alongside James D. Watson. Francis Crick Watson and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology for Medicine “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.” He was clearly a brilliant scientist who unfortunately, like many other

something more. It requires the passion and ardor that one has to bring into their writing. In a time of fear and anguish, most might lose that passion that sparked in them, leaving behind a passionless and hopeless shell. In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech at the Nobel Banquet, these were the issues William Faulkner had to address. Using his platform for something greater, Faulkner delivered his speech, not only to accept his award but to advise the future

Just in the United States there are about 26 million different species, from dogs to birds, being used every year for medical and science related testing. Throughout the process of testing, these animals face cruel conditions and have no way of fighting back. Although medical testings on animals may cure the deadliest diseases such as cancer and tuberculosis, the abuse and mistreatment these animals face while testing medicines should be deemed inhumane, and such practices should be banned in the

according to Kahneman and co workers, “… is the study of what makes experiences and life pleasant or unpleasant.” He also collaborated with several Psychologists, such as Thaler, Varey, Snell, and the best Amos Tversky. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on ‘Prospect theory’, which he shared with Amos Tversky. The two were awarded the University of Louisville Grawemeyr Award for Psychology. In the 2000’s Kahneman was awarded seven different awards and achievement, and