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Category List: Nobel Prizewinners

1.	Blodgett was the first woman with a doctorate to be hired to General Electric's research laboratory. From there she pioneered research in Thin Film Technology, and non-reflective glass. Her non-reflecting coatings have found applications all over the world, and are common in cars, spectacles, picture frames and telescopes, amongst others. Click here to read about Katherine Blodgett
2.	A man who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, Joseph Brodsky. Russian-born, but exiled to America, he described himself as "a happy combination of Russian poet and English essayist. Click here to read about Joseph Brodsky
3.	Feynman was one of the most celebrated physicists of modern times. A theorertical physicist, he did highly original work in quantum mechanics, before becoming involved in the atomic bomb project. After this he became a teacher, but went back to theory late in life. Click here to read about Richard Feynman
4.	A man whose experiences with trivial injuries causing death led him to search for a general antibiotic, this is the story of the man who discovered penicilin. Click here to read about Alexander Fleming
5.	Knut Hamsun, who was born in Norway, but spent time jobbing in America. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920, but his later sympathy toward the Nazis got him into significant trouble. Click here to read about Knut Hamson
6.	Kazantzakis is best known for his novels, but also contributed massively to Greek literature and philosophy, and wrote a 33,333 line poem. He also translated other classics into modern Greek. Click here to read about Nikos Kazantzakis
7.	The particle accelerator (or cyclotron) has contributed significantly to science's understanding of atoms. Unfortunately this did lead to greater understanding of how to blow stuff up, and whilst Ernest Lawrence was proud of his scientific contribution, he was less pleased with its outcome. Click here to read about Ernest Orlando Lawrence
8.	Konrad Lorenz, the Austrian famous for his work on animal aggression. Click here to read about Konrad Lorenz
9.	Representing the Girl 'M's, Swedish diplomat and Nobel prizewinner Alva Myrdal. Click here to read about Alva Reimer Myrdal
10.	Planck's work in theoretical Physics earned him the Nobel Prize, and marked the transition between classical and modern Physics that occurred at the start of the 20th Century. Click here to read about Max Planck
11.	Schrödinger published a set of papers which laid the foundation for the wave-mechanics approach to quantum theory. Experiments confirmed his theories, and he went on to develop a new theory of quantum mechanics, doing for the mechanics of the atom what Newton did for planetary astronomy. Click here to read about Erwin Schrödinger
12.	1982 Nobel prizewinning conservative economist George J. Stigler. Click here to read about George J. Stigler