nobel prizes

An account of the life of Mother Teresa, the Serbian nun who founded a religious order, the Sisters of Charity, to serve the sick and needy of Calcutta, India, and of the work that earned her a Nobel Peace Prize.

Tells the story of the life and accomplishments of Dr. Rosalyn Yalow, the second woman in history to win a Nobel Prize in medicine, discussing her struggles to succeed in a traditionally male field, and showing how her courage extended into her later years when strokes and other illnesses threatened her survival.

Contains over seven hundred entries that provide biographical and bibliographical information about each of the world's Nobel Prize winners from 1901 through 2000; grouped in the categories of chemistry, medicine and physiology, economics, physics, literature, and peace, with name, education, nationality, and religion indexes.

The Nobel Prize committee decides to give an award retroactively to the scientist who discoverd Oxygen and began the chemical revolution but has trouble determining who deserves the award.

Contains biographical entries on 466 Nobel Prize winning scientists.

Examines the lives of Barbara McClintock, Maria Mayer, Rosalyn Yalow, and Rita Levi-Montalcini, women scientists who won the Nobel Prize against extraordinary odds, in different fields and under different circumstances.

Provides alphabetically-arranged biographies for fifty-five men, women, and institutions that were awarded the Nobel Prize during the years 1992 through 1996, and includes lists of winners from 1901 through 1996 organized by prize category and by country of residence.

A biographical dictionary of Nobel Prize winners from 1987 to 1991.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical information about each of the fifty-eight men, women, and institutions to be awarded the Nobel Prize from 1997 through 2001, with accounts of the work that earned them the honor, and includes lists of winners since 1901.