La Fontaine studied law at the Free University of Brussels. He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and established a reputation as an authority on international law. In 1893 he became professor of international law at the New University in Brussels and two years later was elected to the Belgian Senate as a member of the Socialist Party. He served as vice chairman of the Senate from 1919 to 1932.

The son of scientist Lionel Penrose and Margaret Leathes, he is the brother of mathematician Oliver Penrose and chess master Jonathan Penrose. 

  

Career: 

Penrose was an early child. He attended University College School. He obtained his first degree in mathematics from University College London. In 1955, while still a student, Penrose reinvented the generalized reverse matrix (also known as the Inverse Moore-Penrose. Penrose obtained his doctorate from cambridge university in 1958, writing a thesis on 'tensor methods in algebraic geometry' under the guidance of algebraist and geometer John Arthur Todd. He invented and popularized the Penrose triangle of the 1950s, describing it as the "impossibility in its purest form" and exchanged impressions with the artist M.C. Escher, who portrayed the first descriptions of these impossible objects inspired by him. In 1965, at Cambridge, Penrose proved that singularities (such as a black hole) could be formed from the gravitational collapse of immense dying stars. 

 

 

 

 

Alexander Fleming was born on (the) 6^th (of) August 1881 at Lochfield in Scotland. He attended Louden Moor School, Darve School and Kilmanock Academy, before moving to London where he attended the Polytechnic.

For several years Fleming worked in a shipping office, before starting medical school.

In 1906, he began his medical studies at St. Mary’s Medical School, at London University. He qualified with distinction and began research at St. Mary’s under Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy.  In 1908, he won a gold medal as top medical student at the University in London.

At first, he planned to become a surgeon, but a temporary position in the laboratories, convinced him that his future would lie in the new field of bacteriology. 

Between 1909 and 1914, Fleming established a successful private practice as a venereologist. In 1915, he married Sarah Marion McElroy, an Irish nurse. In 1924, Fleming’s son, Robert was born and followed his father’s steps into medicine.

In 1928, Sir. Fleming was elected Professor of the School in 1928 and Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology, University of London in 1948. 

An interesting fact is that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by chance. When Fleming returned from the war, he began his studies on the bacteria responsible for causing infections in soldiers’ wounds. One day, he decided to go on vacation and left some bacteria cultures in his laboratory. When he returned, a few weeks later, he found out that the culture was full of mould and that the ideal was to throw it away. However, before discarding the material, Fleming noticed the presence of bacteria around the places where the mould was found, which suggested that it had stopped the activity of the bacteria. Analysis showed that this specific fungus was Penicillium Notatum and that the substance it secreted was capable of killing bacteria.

 At that time, penicillin was emerging, and it was considered the first antibiotic of humanity and one of the most fantastic medical discoveries.

Dr Fleming died on (the) eleventh (of) March, in 1955.

from Kenya.

Wangari Muta Maathai was born on 1 st April 1940, in Kenya.

In 1956 she completed primary school and was admitted to a girls, college.

After completing secondary school in 1959, Maathai intended to enter the

University of East Africa, but she received a scholarship from the Joseph P.

Kennedy Foundation, so she was able to continue her studies in the United

States in September 1960.

In 1964, she became the first woman in East Africa to obtain a bachelor's

degree in biology, at Mount St Scholastics’ College.

In 1966, she obtained her master;s degree in biology from the University of

Pittsburgh and then she worked as a researcher in veterinary medicine in

Germany, before receiving her doctorate in anatomy from the University of

Nairobi in 1971.

She was the first woman in East and Central Africa to receive a doctoral degree

at that university, where she also became a teacher of veterinary anatomy.

 

In 1977 the Green Belt movement was born; the movement’s main aims were

to promote environmental conservation, build climate resilience; strengthen

communities among others, which included promoting the importance of

planting trees to combat deforestation.

Since its birth, this movement has planted over 51 million trees in Kenya, not

only working in the country but also across borders.

In 2002, she was a professor at Yale University;s Global Institute. In the same

year, in December, at the first free elections in her country, she was elected to

the Kenyan Parliament.

In 2004, she won the Nobel Peace Prize, serving as an inspiration to many in

the struggle for democratic rights, so she has especially encouraged women to

improve their situation.

Five years after receiving the Nobel Prize, she became the United Nations

Messenger of Peace.

 

Wangari Maathai died of ovarian cancer on 25 th December 2011, at the age of

71, in Nairobi.

 

Curiosities:

Wangari Maathai;s mother instilled this concern for the environment. As a child,

Wangari used to look for frog eggs. 

Established the relationship between mass and energy and formulated the equation that became the most famous in the world, Einstein became known all over the world. Albert Einstein received numerous awards as the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.

At the age of six, encouraged by his mother, he began studying violin. In the beginning, he excelled in the study of physics, mathematics and philosophy. After high school, he went to Switzerland where, in 1900, he graduated in Physics. 

A year later, he wrote his first scientific paper. And in 1903, he married Mileva Maric, with who he had three children. On April 18, 1955, he died in the United States in New Jersey. 

          Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, United States, on July 21, 1899 and died on July 2, 1961, worked as a war correspondent in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War and it was because of this experience that he was inspired by a of his greatest works, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”.

          He was appointed an ambulance driver, but was seriously injured and remained in hospital for a long time, after recovering, married and went to Paris as a correspondent for the Toronto Star newspaper. At that time, there were privations and disappointments.

          In 1925, a collection of his short stories in the book “Em Nosso Tempo” was published in New York.

Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, on 6 of December of 1942. Peter never had an easy childhood due to his stepfather becoming violent due to alcohol. In 1954, he was sent to an Catholic boarding school where he wrote his first text called Fackel. 

In 1959, Handke moved to high school where he started his law studies at the University of Graz. Sadly he received the notice that his mother committed suicide due to domestic violent of his stepfather which is reflected on his novel “A Sorrow Beyond Dreams”.

In 1966, Peter Handke made his first play called Offending the Audience, in addition to that, he got well recognized. 

After that he kept growing up and making a lot of good works for example in 1978, when he directed the film The Left-Handed Woman that won the Gold Award for German Arthouse Cinema in 1980.

About his achievements, Peter Handke recently won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. He also won prizes in theatre and cinema for example the George Büchner prize and the Nestroy Theatre Prize.

Nowadays he’s still writing but has now retired.

He was the first African-American president of the United States. He was elected as president in January 20 of 2009 and finished in January 20 of 2017. 

He took office at a moment of crisis unlike any America had seen in decades. Obama’s leadership helped rescue the economy, revitalize the American auto industry, reform the health care system to cover another twenty million Americans, and put the country on a firm course to a clean energy future, all while overseeing the longest stretch of job creation in American history. 

He was the fourth U.S. President to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, nine months later after being elected as president, for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples and a vision and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

“True democracy is a project that’s much bigger than any one of us. It’s bigger than any one person, any one president, and any one government. It’s a job for all of us.” - Obama

It is the world's largest humanitarian organization, the largest one focused on hunger and food security, and the largest provider of school meals. Founded in 1961, it is headquartered in Rome and has offices in 80 countries. As of 2019, it served 97 million people in 88 countries, the largest since 2012, with two-thirds of its activities conducted in conflict zones.

In addition to emergency food relief, WFP offers technical assistance and development aid, such as building capacity for emergency preparedness and response, managing supply chains and logistic.

The World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 for its efforts to provide food assistance in areas of conflict, and to prevent the use of food as a weapon of war and conflict.

Linus was married to an American human rights activist Ava Helen Pauling. Linus was born on February 28^th, 1901 in Portland, Oregon and he died on August 19^th, 1994. He was 93 years old when he died.

In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Eight years later he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to weapons of mass destruction.

In August 2014, with 21 years old, she was a student living in northern Iraq when Islamic State fighters stormed the community and killed 600 people, including six of her brothers..

She was tortured, beaten and more. In November 2014, Nadia managed to escape after a minor distraction from her captor, who left one of the doors of her house open. She later obtained political asylum in Germany, living in stuttgart.

1.                   January 5, 2016: nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize proposed by the Iraq government for activism.

2.                   September 16, 2016: First Ambassador of Goodwill for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations.

3.                   10 October 2016: Vaclav Havel Human Rights Award from the Council of Europe.

4.                   27 October 2016: Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

5.                   She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018.

 

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Hello,  I come to talk about Mari Curie, a woman who in her lifetime won 2 Nobel Prizes. His first Nobel the Physics in 1903, And it was in 1911  the her second Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

 

She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, being also the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, in addition to being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields. She played a key role in the Curie family's legacy of five Nobel prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris and, in 1995, she became the first woman to be buried on her own merits in the Pantheon in Paris.

 

Her achievements include the development of the "radioactivity" theory (a term she coined), [2] [3] techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes and the discovery of two chemical elements, polonium and radium. Under her direction, the first studies for the treatment of neoplasms using radioactive isotopes were conducted. She founded the Curie Institute in Paris and its counterpart in Warsaw, which remain major centers of medical research. During the First World War, it developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals.

 

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Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style.

Alice was a schoolteacher, and began writing as a teenager, publishing her first story "The Dimensions Of A Shadow" in 1950 while studying English and journalism at the University Of Western Ontario.

As in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, her characters often confront deep-rooted customs and traditions, but the reaction of Munro's characters is generally less intense than their Southern counterparts'.

Almost twenty of Munro's works have been made available for free on the web. However, in most cases these are the first versions only. 
From the period before 2003, 16 stories have been included in Munro's own compilations more than twice, with two of her works scoring even four republications: "Carried Away" and "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage".

•Governor General's Literary Award for English language fiction (1968, 1978, 1986)

•Canadian Booksellers Award for Lives of Girls and women (1971)

•Shortlisted for the annual (UK) Booker Prize for Fiction (1980) for The Beggar Maid

•The Writers' Trust of Canada's Marian Engel Award (1986) for her body of work 

•Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (2004) for Runaway 

•Trillium Book Award for Friend of My Youth (1991), •The Love of a Good Woman (1999) and Dear Life (2013)

•WH Smith Literary Award (1995, UK) for Open Secrets

•Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (1995)

•PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction (1997)

•National Book Critics Circle Award (1998, U.S.) For •The Love of a Good Woman

•Giller Prize (1998 and 2004)

•Rea Award for the Short Story (2001) given to a living •American or Canadian author.

•Libris Award

•Edward MacDowell Medal for outstanding contribution to the arts by the MacDowell Colony (2006).

•O. Henry Award for continuing achievement in short fiction in the U.S. for "Passion" (2006), "What Do You Want To Know For" (2008) and "Corrie" (2012)

•Man Booker International Prize (2009, UK)

•Canada-Australia Literary Prize

•Commonwealth Writers Prize Regional Award for Canada and the Caribbean.

•Nobel Prize in Literature (2013) as a "master of the contemporary short story".

Honors Edit

•1992: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

•1993: Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal

•2005: Medal of Honor for Literature from the U.S. National Arts Club

•2010: Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters

•2014: Silver coin released by the Royal Canadian Mint in honour of Munro's Nobel Prize win 

•2015: Postage stamp released by Canada Post in honour of Munro's Nobel Prize win.