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My parents, Charles Brovarnik and Pearl Gorinstein, were born in Zhitomir in the Ukraine and came to London in 1908 as part of the vast Jewish immigration in the early part of this century. They were married in London. In 1909 my sister, Ann, was born. I arrived on May 22, 1912. In June 1914…

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has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1979 to Mother Teresa. Thirty years ago Mother Teresa left her teaching post at a Roman Catholic girls’ school in Calcutta in order to devote her life to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of that city. The Roman Catholic order of which she…

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Presentation Speech by Professor John Sanness, Chairman of the Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize for 1979 to Mother Teresa. The year 1979 has not been a year of peace: disputes and conflicts between nations, peoples, and ideologies have been conducted…

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NOBELFÖRSAMLINGEN KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE 11 October 1979 has decided today to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1979 jointly to Allan M Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield for the “development of computer assisted tomography”. An X-ray examination usually implies the passage of X-rays through an organ…

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