The even row of portrait photographs of Lower Silesian Nobel Prize winners displayed on the wall of the club Salon Śląski, or Silesian Salon, one of the city‟s magic places, right across the street from the Baroque main building of the Wrocław University, is rather unorthodox as far as the standards of picture exhibitions go. Two of the laureates observe the cosy interior of the club having ass...

Alfred Nobel was one of the most successful chemists, inventors, entrepreneurs, and businessmen of the late nineteenth century. In a decision later in life, he rewrote his will to leave virtually all his fortune to establish prizes for persons of any nationality who made the most compelling achievement for the benefit of mankind in the fields of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, liter...

We recently discussed the Nobel Prize-winning work of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, University of Chicago, Ilbois, and William A. Fowler, the 1983 laureates in physics, and that of chemistry prizewinner Henry Taube. 1 We will now review the award in physiology or medicine to Barbara McClintock. The next and final portion of the essay will focus on the winners in economics and literature. We have ...

1. Les Prix nobel. The nobel Prizes 1998, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [nobel Foundation], [internet]. Stockholm, 1999 [cited 2009 Aug 17]. Available from: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1998/ sen-autobio.html 2. Admission page [internet]. Vellore(india): Christian Medical College; [cited 2009 Aug 17]. Available from: http://home.cmcvellore.ac.in/ admissions/degweb/ugbulletin%...