Essays Tagged: "Nobel Prize"

PCR And Its Use

mophilic organism.' (from http://www.genes.com/pcr/pcrinfo.html) Dr. K.Mullis recently received the Nobel prize for inventing the technique.This is how they go about doing this: They first get their s ...

(3 pages) 84 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

general explanations of Albert Camus's philosophy

Mandoui, Algeria, Albert Camus earned aworldwide reputation as a novelist and essayist and won the Nobel Prize for literature in1957. Though his writings, and in some measure against his will, he bec ...

(1 pages) 92 2 5.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Thomas Stern Eliot 's "The Hollow Men"

m of Faber and Gwyer, becoming director when the firm became Faber and Faber in 1929. Eliot won the Nobel prize for literature in 1948 and other major literary awards.Eliot saw an exhausted poetic mod ...

(5 pages) 101 0 3.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"

. By publishing these experiences and trials of the migrants he achieved an effect that won him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962. The writing of The Grapes of Wrath coincided with the Great Depr ...

(7 pages) 170 0 4.2 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

"Lord Of The Flies" by William Golding

and destructive human brings may be unless they are restrained by conscience. Golding won the 1983 Nobel Prize for literature. His most famous book, 'Lord of the flies' tells of a group of boys stran ...

(13 pages) 246 1 4.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding

Report on Konrad Z. Lorenz-nobel prize winner for research on genetic imprinting

d published many books on the subjects of human nature and biology. Dr. Lorenz was also awarded the Nobel Prize in 1973 for his research on imprinting. Konrad Zacharias Lorenz died at the age of 85 at ... soner by Russians. He finally returned home in February 1948.In 1973, Konrad Lorenz was awarded the Nobel Prize for his studies of human and animal behavior, along with Karl Von Frisch and Niko Tinber ...

(5 pages) 44 0 3.7 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays

The Search for the Double Helix

It's about a race, or game, for the one thing that separates scientists from great scientists, the Nobel Prize.The race is among five people: Wilkins, Franklin, Pauling, and Watson and Crick. And how ... an once. Wilkins and Franklin both contributed too, maybe not willingly, but they did. And when the Nobel Prize was given out, it was shared by Watson, Crick, and Wilkins. And why not? Without the inf ...

(4 pages) 56 0 3.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

The Cross of straight Winged Fruit Flies With Nubbin winged flies

ht Winged Fruit Flies with Nubbin Winged Fruit FliesIn 1933, a man named Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize for conducting experiments on genetics by using the Drosophila melanogaster (also known ...

(5 pages) 50 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Toni Morrison: Bathed in Tradition

Morrison holds a great deal of prestige in the writing community, as she is both the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature as well as the Pulitzer Prize, the top honor a writer may receive. She wr ... eighth woman, and first black woman to receive the most prestigious award a writer may receive: the Nobel Prize for Literature. Then in 1996, she received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distin ...

(10 pages) 145 1 3.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

This is a research paper about animals in research for a phycology class about the pros and the cons a compare and contrast essay 4pages

enetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death has won three researchers the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine. The research led to a new understanding of diseases ranging from cancer to ...

(3 pages) 143 1 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Biography of Ernest Hemingway

firmed his power and presence in the literacy world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. This novel also won the Pulitzer Prize award. III. July 21st, 1899, Erne ... seas, and air. It got him the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1954, the greatest literary award of all, the Nobel Prize. Hemingway had three true phobias in his life: telephone conversations, the taxman, and ...

(11 pages) 114 0 4.2 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

The Themes Portrayed In Faulkner's "Barn Burning".

ed to: "All the Dead Pilots", "Barn Burning", "Country Mice", and "Knight's Gambit". A Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning novelist, Faulkner's prose can be difficult to comprehend. Thus vast worlds of r ...

(3 pages) 214 1 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and the Environment, The Global Impact.

within the next six monther, without any apparent toxicity to humans. He was later awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his efforts. DDT's effectiveness, persistence, and low co ...

(4 pages) 85 1 4.7 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Ozone Depletion.

Nobel Prize-caliber scientists concluded years ago that CFCs damage the ozone layer. So why is the d ... ars ago that CFCs damage the ozone layer. So why is the debate still raging?When the winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry appeared at the flower-filled Stockholm Concert Hall in December 1995 to r ... eive their awards from King Carl XVI Gustaf, they were met by pickets. Why?Because two of the three Nobelists, F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina, were being rewarded for their pioneering work on th ...

(10 pages) 121 0 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Why is the risk of a portfolio of shares normally lower than the average risk of the shares of the portfolio?

lio Selection" which appeared in the 1952 Journal of Finance. Thirty-eight years later, he shared a Nobel Prize with Merton Miller and William Sharpe for what has become a broad theory for portfolio s ...

(9 pages) 512 1 2.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Describe the 2 views of Corporate Social Responsibility.

nd to return maximum benefits to shareholders (Robbins, Bergman, Stagg and Coulter, 2003: 136). The Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman endorsed this classical view. Friedman said the primar ...

(10 pages) 816 0 4.6 Jun/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Albert Einstein's life from when he is 4 till he dies.

for Einstein's' world fame; he became an overnight celebrity. In November 1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.His theory of relativity, however, was still controversial. One winter while ...

(2 pages) 29 0 2.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

ovels, notably Pincher Martin (1956), and a play, The Brass Butterfly (1958). This book won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He died ten years later in 1993.This book takes place during a w ...

(6 pages) 97 1 4.1 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Nuclear power: Advatages and disadvatages, also a short history of nuclear technology.

ere no cases of radiation sickness, nor did the reactor explode (unlikely). After Mr. Fermi won the Nobel Prize, he went on to Los Alamos, New Mexico to create the first nuclear bomb. There are many a ...

(3 pages) 130 0 4.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Genetics, Genetic Research and Cloning The Human Genome Project

and CloningThe Human Genome ProjectMelissa A. BuzbeeUniversity of WyomingWhen James Watson won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962 for discovering the structure of DNA, he opened up a whole new area ...

(8 pages) 221 0 3.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects