2014年6月9日月曜日

From Snooker to Science (今月のノーベル賞月報)

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JUNE 2014
Game of snooker. Photo: MichaelMaggs via Wikimedia Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Game of snooker. Photo: Michael Maggs via Wikimedia Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.
From Snooker to Science
Thinking he had too much time for leisure, Chemistry Laureate Michael Levitt's mother advised him to study much harder and skip two years of school.
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"He Pushed Me"
In school, Physics Laureate François Englert liked both literature and mathematics. A teacher pushed him to enter engineering school.
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François Englert
François Englert.

Eugene Fama
Eugene Fama.
His Future Should Be in Sports
Already sure of a career as French teacher and sports coach, Laureate in Economic Sciences Eugene Fama took an economics course - and that was a revelation.
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"I Made Stories Up All the Time"
What turned Literature Laureate Alice Munro into writing? H.C. Andersen's sad story The Little Mermaid played an important part in her becoming an author.
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Alice Munro
Alice Munro.

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Most Popular Field in Physics
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