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Could you guys give me some reasons why Bill Gates deserves a Nobel peace prize?|||The Nobel Peace Prize is a great honor given to people who have devoted themselves to peace, diplomacy, democracy, and the overall well-being of humankind. Donating money to charities is a wonderful thing to do, but it isn't enough to make the cut.|||You consider ranking Bill Gates among the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Henri La Fontaine, Woodrow Wilson, Martin Luther King Jr., Henry Kissinger, Mother Teresa, the 14th Dalai Lama?
I don't see how you could even consider him a candidate for a Nobel peace price. What has he done to promote peace in this country, let alone the world?
Last years' Nobel peace prize went to Martti Ahtisaari 鈥渇or his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts." Do you think any of Bill Gates financial accomplishments are anywhere even close to what Ahtissari has done for the world?
In short, Bill Gates does not deserve to win, be nominated for, or even discussed in the same sentence as the words "Nobel prize".|||globeandmail.com: Gore shares Nobel Peace Prize - Comments
I can't wait until Bill Gates wins it for his humanitarian and charitable ... Canada writes: I agree with Guy Macher, David Suzuki also deserves a Nobel Prize. ...http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/s鈥?/a> - 790k - Cached|||no :) LOL
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
When will President Obama give back his Nobel Peace Award?
Do you think he deserved this political decision? It is a mockery of the Nobel Committee and their award system. Is there anything left in this world that is still achieved honestly? Please let me know.|||I heard he paid 2 million for it and gave him 1 million back as the prize.^
Who do you think should win the Nobel prize in literature?
Please only name living authors, otherwise we would need to have a few hundred Nobel prizes to hand out posthumously.|||This is going to be hard considering most of my favourites are Classics. :)
I'm going to go with Kazuo Ishiguro for Never Let Me Go. He has such a simple but effective way of writing and he manages to combine the tradition feel of an English boarding school and the fraught tensions of growing up with a ton of raw human emotion with regards to the futuristic morality of the story. It's so beautifully written and keeps you enchanted and moved until the end. I can never tell people what it's about, it doesn't do it justice. The film is a faithful adaptation but nothing comes close to the language he conjures up.
Joss: Whilst I agree that Atonement is McEwan's best work I certainly wouldn't say he's worthy of a Nobel prize. The plot drives the novel forward but his writing in itself is nothing extraordinary in my opinion.
:')|||I think the last novel I read of his was in the mid nineties about the time I gave up on American literature and of course he has some extreme negatives against him, but certainly Philip Roth meets most of the criteria for winning this award.
His negatives include being a New Yorker and being Jewish, though a non-practicing one.
His positives, to the Nobel committee at least, are a "marching to my own drummer" attitude and his unflattering views of American culture.|||Ian McEwan for Atonement. But, apparently - according to a former judge on the panel - there's a systemic bias against European and American writers, especially American writers.
Maybe McEwan will get it next year, though. ;) I might actually read this years winner. I've read a summary of the book and it kind of interests me. I don't think I've read any books that have this award. Though, if McEwan ever wins then that'll be one. :D|||Philip Roth. Without question. The Nobel's not awarding him with the Nobel greatly discounts the award. He deserved it twenty years ago.|||I'm not too sure personally about Stephenie Meyer (author of the "Twlight" series).|||The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy|||the person who wrote Harry Potter?
I'm going to go with Kazuo Ishiguro for Never Let Me Go. He has such a simple but effective way of writing and he manages to combine the tradition feel of an English boarding school and the fraught tensions of growing up with a ton of raw human emotion with regards to the futuristic morality of the story. It's so beautifully written and keeps you enchanted and moved until the end. I can never tell people what it's about, it doesn't do it justice. The film is a faithful adaptation but nothing comes close to the language he conjures up.
Joss: Whilst I agree that Atonement is McEwan's best work I certainly wouldn't say he's worthy of a Nobel prize. The plot drives the novel forward but his writing in itself is nothing extraordinary in my opinion.
:')|||I think the last novel I read of his was in the mid nineties about the time I gave up on American literature and of course he has some extreme negatives against him, but certainly Philip Roth meets most of the criteria for winning this award.
His negatives include being a New Yorker and being Jewish, though a non-practicing one.
His positives, to the Nobel committee at least, are a "marching to my own drummer" attitude and his unflattering views of American culture.|||Ian McEwan for Atonement. But, apparently - according to a former judge on the panel - there's a systemic bias against European and American writers, especially American writers.
Maybe McEwan will get it next year, though. ;) I might actually read this years winner. I've read a summary of the book and it kind of interests me. I don't think I've read any books that have this award. Though, if McEwan ever wins then that'll be one. :D|||Philip Roth. Without question. The Nobel's not awarding him with the Nobel greatly discounts the award. He deserved it twenty years ago.|||I'm not too sure personally about Stephenie Meyer (author of the "Twlight" series).|||The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy|||the person who wrote Harry Potter?
Should Nobel Prizes have been awarded in nuclear physics?
In his will, Alfred Nobel stated that the prizes should go to those who benefited humanity in some (tangible?) way. I don't recall the exact wording, but I encourage you to look it up. Does that mean that nuclear physics, which has as main impact produced the nuclear bomb, should have been excluded? |||That is not the only application of Nuclear physics.
I would say that the main applications would be for medical use, in the generation of power and archeology (carbon dating) where the principals of nuclear physics are applied every day.
Those are indeed tangible benefits.. don't you think?
|||Alfred Nobel Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite.
The erroneous publication in 1888 of a premature obituary of Nobel by a French newspaper, condemning him for his invention of dynamite, is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death. The obituary stated Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead") and went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.
This was not a man who would have cared if the invention killed people he was more interested in the furthermost of science itself|||dude nobel prize is for physics also. The people who have the greatest contribution have the prize. There is a commitee that decides who should get this prize. All links belove have the winners that contributed to the nuclear physics in some way and each has the nobel prize.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…|||No. First of all, nuclear physics is about understanding the basic processes that operate in the nuclei of atoms, it is not about
making bombs.
Also, the bomb has resulted in 60+ years of no world war, so the
builders of the bomb should be given the Nobel Peace prize.|||lets not forget about nuclear power, one of the cheapest and cleanest forms of electricity, and people really need to stop associating nuclear with bomb, you can have one without the other. |||They are awarded for physics (%26amp; other things too). Nuclear physics has had implications far beyond the bomb, medicine for one.
I would say that the main applications would be for medical use, in the generation of power and archeology (carbon dating) where the principals of nuclear physics are applied every day.
Those are indeed tangible benefits.. don't you think?
|||Alfred Nobel Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite.
The erroneous publication in 1888 of a premature obituary of Nobel by a French newspaper, condemning him for his invention of dynamite, is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death. The obituary stated Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead") and went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.
This was not a man who would have cared if the invention killed people he was more interested in the furthermost of science itself|||dude nobel prize is for physics also. The people who have the greatest contribution have the prize. There is a commitee that decides who should get this prize. All links belove have the winners that contributed to the nuclear physics in some way and each has the nobel prize.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physi…|||No. First of all, nuclear physics is about understanding the basic processes that operate in the nuclei of atoms, it is not about
making bombs.
Also, the bomb has resulted in 60+ years of no world war, so the
builders of the bomb should be given the Nobel Peace prize.|||lets not forget about nuclear power, one of the cheapest and cleanest forms of electricity, and people really need to stop associating nuclear with bomb, you can have one without the other. |||They are awarded for physics (%26amp; other things too). Nuclear physics has had implications far beyond the bomb, medicine for one.
How come I never won the Nobel Peace Prize?
I have sat on my a.ss doing nothing for America way longer than Obama has been in office,so where is my Nobel Peace Prize?|||because Obama paid "The Man" to give it to him instead!|||at least you didn't use sarcasm like obama Nobel PEACE Prize yet all the stuff with iraq and Afghanistan seriously ......|||Try becoming president and having some of the world appreciating Americans a little more.|||Haha|||You aren't famous enough|||NOBODY WANTED TO TELL YOU BUT YOU HAVE LIKE THE BIGGEST EYE BOOGER..|||You're not famous or the first black president.|||you need to promise to do nothing first|||Be patient, you will get it one day....|||yea im still waiting for mine
How does the Nobel Foundation get it's money?
I read that the money awarded to winners of Nobel Prizes depends on the Nobel Foundations income that year. In 2009 the prize was worth $1.4 million.
So how does the foundation get this money?|||The Nobel Prize was created by the inventor of Dynamite, Alfred Nobel who was horrified by the uses of his invention. So he used the profits from the sales of dynamite to create the Nobel Prize. Presumably the same profits today are being used to fund the Prize. But that's just a wild guess.|||It was a legacy left by Arthur Nobel. The fund is managed, with the prize money coming from the investment proceeds. Pulitzer Prizes are similar as are grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.|||charity and donations.
So how does the foundation get this money?|||The Nobel Prize was created by the inventor of Dynamite, Alfred Nobel who was horrified by the uses of his invention. So he used the profits from the sales of dynamite to create the Nobel Prize. Presumably the same profits today are being used to fund the Prize. But that's just a wild guess.|||It was a legacy left by Arthur Nobel. The fund is managed, with the prize money coming from the investment proceeds. Pulitzer Prizes are similar as are grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.|||charity and donations.
What are the 7 possible nobel prize categories?
What are the 7 possible nobel prize categories?|||"The Nobel Prize (Swedish: Nobelpriset), as designated in Alfred Nobel's will in 1895, is awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. A prize in economics in memory of Nobel ("The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel") was instituted by Sweden's central bank in 1968. The five initial prizes were first awarded in 1901, while the first prize in economics was awarded in 1969. "
Welcome to the Nobel Prize Internet Archive! Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded annually as per Alfred Nobel's last will and testament. This site maintains information on all winners in all categories. Click on any Nobel category at left (literature, physics, chemistry, peace, economics, or physiology %26amp; medicine) to see an annotated, hyperlinked list of all Nobel laureates in that category."|||According to the Nobel site there are only six
Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace.
Welcome to the Nobel Prize Internet Archive! Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded annually as per Alfred Nobel's last will and testament. This site maintains information on all winners in all categories. Click on any Nobel category at left (literature, physics, chemistry, peace, economics, or physiology %26amp; medicine) to see an annotated, hyperlinked list of all Nobel laureates in that category."|||According to the Nobel site there are only six
Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace.
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