2014

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English 7 October 2014 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to Isamu Akasaki Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya University, Japan Hiroshi Amano Nagoya University, Japan and Shuji Nakamura University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving…

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Early Years I was born in November 1939 in Harlem, New York to Irish immigrant parents and grew up in the South Bronx. My parents had landed in New York on the eve of the depression; my father’s hope was that I would never have to live through one myself. My mother’s passage was funded…

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Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, the largest city in the Swat Valley in what is now the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. She is the daughter of Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai and has two younger brothers. At a very young age, Malala developed a thirst for knowledge. For years…

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Swedish 7 oktober 2014 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2014 till Isamu Akasaki Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya University, Japan Hiroshi Amano Nagoya University, Japan och Shuji Nakamura University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA “för uppfinningen av effektiva blå lysdioder vilka möjliggjort ljusstarka och energisnåla vita ljuskällor” Blå lysdioder sprider nytt ljus…

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German Der ständige Sekretär Pressemitteilung 9. Oktober 2014 Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2014 Patrick Modiano Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2014 wird dem französischen Schriftsteller Patrick Modiano verliehen „für die Kunst der Erinnerung, mit der er die unbegreiflichsten menschlichen Schicksale wachgerufen und die Lebenswelt der Besatzungszeit durchschaubar gemacht hat“.

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Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 9 oktober 2014 Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2014 Patrick Modiano Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2014 tilldelas den franske författaren Patrick Modiano ”för den minneskonst varmed han frammanat de ogripbaraste levnadsöden och avtäckt ockupationsårens livsvärld”.

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