To commemorate the recently-awarded prizes, this week spotlights the Nobel Prize
Connections. Per wikitree.com I am:
26 degrees from Alfred Nobel
25 degrees from Ralph Bunche
20 degrees from Marie Curie
25 degrees from Robert Edwards
24 degrees from Willem Einthoven
22 degrees from Gabriel Garc˙a M˙rquez
18 degrees from Charles Huggins
25 degrees from Robert Koch
28 degrees from Toni Morrison
19 degrees from Linus Pauling
27 degrees from Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
22 degrees from John Strutt
More about them:
Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor who endowed the prize and created the institution.
Ralph Bunche, political scientist, academic, and diplomat, who was the first African-
American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his peacekeeping efforts in Israel in
the late 1940s.
Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on
radioactivity which led to her being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only
woman to win in two fields, the only person who has won the award in multiple sciences.
Sir Robert Edwards, Nobel Prize awardee in Physiology or Medicine for the development
of in vitro fertilization.
Willem Einthoven, Dutch doctor and physiologist who invented the first practical
electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in
1924 for it (for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram).
Gabriel Garc˙a M˙rquez, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and the most translated
Spanish language author of all time.
Charles Huggins, Canadian doctor who was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology
or Medicine for discovering in 1941 that hormones could be used to control the spread of
some cancers.
Robert Koch, discovered the Tuberculosis bacteria and won a Nobel for the discovery in
1905.
Toni Morrison, the first black woman to win a Nobel Prize, hers in Literature.
Linus Pauling, was one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular
biology and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. In 1962, for his peace
activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the only person to be awarded two
unshared Nobel Prizes.
Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, who published under the name of Pablo Neruda, won the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1971.
Sir John Strutt, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904 for his investigations of the
densities of the most important gases
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