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.
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Eugene Fama.
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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.
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