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John Charles Polanyi (awarded Nobel prize in 1986), for his contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes. G. S. R. Subba Rao, natural product chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate; Robert Robinson (awarded Nobel prize in 1947), for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids.
This list of Nobel laureates by university affiliation shows the university affiliations of individual winners of the Nobel Prize since 1901 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences since 1969. The affiliations are those at the time of the Nobel Prize announcement. [1]
The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England.The main campus is south of Manchester City Centre on Oxford Road.The university owns and operates major cultural assets such as the Manchester Museum, The Whitworth art gallery, the John Rylands Library, the Tabley House Collection and the Jodrell Bank Observatory – a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
Melvin Calvin, [14] worked in Manchester from 1935 to 1937, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961; Michael Polanyi, [15] Professor of Chemistry; Arthur Harden, [16] awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929; Norman Haworth, [17] awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1937; George de Hevesy, [18] awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943
"Frankly, I value both my Ig Nobel prize and Nobel prize at the same level and for me Ig Nobel prize was the manifestation that I can take jokes, a little bit of self-deprecation always helps." [4] 2010, Geim was inducted into the Guinness World Records as the "First individual to win both a Nobel and Ig Nobel prize". [77]
Lists of Nobel laureates cover winners of Nobel Prizes for outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine. The lists are organized by prize, by ethnicity, by origination and by nationality.
Sir John Edward Sulston CH FRS MAE (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018 [11] [12]) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. [13]