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Linda Brown Buck (born January 29, 1947) is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system. [3] She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , along with Richard Axel , for their work on olfactory receptors.
The central Alma Mater statue at Columbia University. As of the 2023 awards, 103 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia University. This list of Nobel laureates affiliated with Columbia University as alumni or faculty comprehensively shows alumni (graduates and attendees) or faculty members (professors of various ranks, researchers, and visiting lecturers or professors) affiliated ...
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]
There are Nobel Prizes for different categories, though not every prize is awarded each year. In fact, one category has only been handed out 55 times.
In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents. [1] Buck was born in West Virginia, but in October 1892, her parents took their 4-month-old baby to China.
Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi paid tribute to the determination of the Iranian people to “dismantle” the “despotism and obstruction” of the Islamic Republic’s regime in ...
The 1938 Nobel Prize is one of the most criticized in the prize's history because Buck's later works generally were not considered to be of the literary standard of a Nobel laureate. [8] According to novelist Irving Wallace , he was told by Sven Hedin that Buck "scarcely bowled over the academy".
In what may have been an highly unconventional job interview, NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino hosted a discussion with Elon Musk about Twitter’s content policies and approach to working ...