ノーベル賞月報 子供の頃の思い出

Monthly JULY 2017

Alan MacDiarmid, age 12, with his bicycle. Courtesy: Alan MacDiarmid. Nobel Laureates' Childhood Memories "I went to school barefooted" Chemistry Laureate Alan MacDiarmid was born a Kiwi, a New Zealander, and grew up during the Great Depression which hit New Zealand rather severely. The family was poor, but always warm, loving, united and supporting. One day young Alan found his father's old chemistry text books dating back to the late 1800's ? Read Alan MacDiarmid's story

"Already at five, I was actively investigating the world" Ada Yonath was a poor but tremendously curious girl. Her father died when she was 11, and she had to start working to support the family. But she completed a proper education and eventually became a successful crystallographer. Ada Yonath was the first woman to receive a Chemistry Prize in 45 years. Read Ada Yonath's story Ada Yonath.

Georges Charpak. "I found a country which for me was a paradise" Georges Charpak was born in Poland, a country then tormented by ethnic fights. The family moved to Paris where they finally found tolerance. Young Georges did not start to do science until he was 24 years old. In 1968 he invented the multiwire proportional chamber and was awarded the Chemistry Prize in 1992. Watch Georges Charpak tell his story

"Everybody was in some sense displaced" Literature Laureate Saul Bellow was raised in one of Chicago's immigrant neighborhoods. In this video, he talks about his childhood town, where he spent so many years of his life, and the "feeling of opportunity and freedom" it gave him. Watch Saul Bellow tell his story Children playing in a Chicago street.

Wole Soyinka. "New discoveries began to keep me behind at lunch-time" Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate in Literature, grew up in the small Nigerian town of Aké, with a mixture of local and western traditions. Read an excerpt from Wole Soyinka's Aké. The Years of Childhood

Dog drooling difficulties Everyone loves a delicious treat to eat. Russian scientist and Medicine Laureate Ivan Pavlov saw that dogs drooled without even seeing the food. Why? Try the Pavlov's Dog Game - a desktop game that can teach both young and old about conditioned reflexes. Try the Pavlov's Dog Game Pavlov's Dog Game.

Monthly Quiz Nobel Laureate without Freedom Which one of these Nobel Laureates was imprisoned when awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? Choose a Laureate and click to submit your answer. Lech Walesa Liu Xiaobo Nelson Mandela

誰にでも子供の頃があったのです。

いずれ死す Somos mortales We are morta

infanciainfancia子供の頃幼少期少年少女

  

ノーベル文学賞の「非欧州化」が進む? Nobel de literatura tiene un jurado demasiado “eurocéntrico”

本年度ノーベル文学賞は拙ブログ掲載のカナダ女性が受賞。Alice Munro - Premio Nobel

Alfred Nobel patenta la nitroglicerina como explosivo (1864)

ノーベル文学賞の言語 Number of Nobel Laureates in Literature Sorted in Languages

世界最高級の英語のスピーチ　V. S. Naipaul

¿ノーベル文学賞の汚点? Eyvind Johnson

カナダのアリス婆さん82歳に Alice Munro カナダの短篇の名手 アリス・マンロー　

こんな人がノーベル文学賞を Rudolf Eucken murió ルドルフ・オイケン歿 (1926年)

ノーベル賞 莫言 闘牛を理解せず El Nobel chino no entiende nada de los toros

ボリス・パステルナークのノーベル賞辞退(1958年)

Camilo José Cela 闘牛士になることを欲したが、単なるノーベル賞作家になってしまった男