2010

Biographical

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass “Everything’s got a moral …”Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland I was born in 1974…

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English 6 October 2010 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 to Richard F. Heck University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, Ei-ichi Negishi Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA and Akira Suzuki Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan “for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis” Great art in a test tube Organic chemistry…

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English Mario Vargas Llosa was born in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru’s second largest city. During his childhood in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Piura, a city in the north of Peru, he believed that his father had died. However, this was a lie told by his mother to conceal their tortuous separation. The truth emerged when, in…

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Spanish Mario Vargas Llosa, nacido en 1936 en Arequipa, la segunda ciudad más grande del Peru, pasó su niñez en Cochabamba, Bolivia, y en Piura, una ciudad al norte del país, creyendo que su padre había muerto. En realidad, se trataba de una mentira urdida por su madre para encubrir una tormentosa separación, que estalló…

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I was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 20 February 1948. My father Antonios was born in the village of Agros, in the Troodos mountains, a village in a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides and with an opening to the south overlooking in the distance the bay of Limassol. He was one of seven…

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Swedish 5 oktober 2010 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2010 till Andre Geim University of Manchester, Storbritannien och Konstantin Novoselov University of Manchester, Storbritannien “för banbrytande experiment rörande det tvådimensionella materialet grafen” Grafen – den perfekta atomväven En tunn flaga vanligt kol, bara en atom tjock, har gjort Andre Geim och Konstantin Novoselov till…

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Galantine de canard et sa garniture de pommes, potiron, légumes au vinaigre et gélée aux épices Turbot aux truffes, salade hivernale aux chanterelles, jus truffé de queue de boeuf Bavarois au chocolat au lait et à l´orange, parfumé à l’aquavit “Gammeldansk Bitter” accompagné d’une salade aux oranges VINS Champagne Franck Bonville Grand Cru Millésime Blanc…

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English 5 October 2010 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre Geim University of Manchester, UK and Konstantin Novoselov University of Manchester, UK “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene” Graphene – the perfect atomic lattice A thin flake of ordinary carbon, just one atom thick, lies behind…

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