African and Africa-Related Nobel Prize Winners

Portraitures in Excellence
Herausgeber: Afulezi, Uju Nkwocha; Afulezi, Ugochukwu Uju

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Produktbeschreibung

In African and Africa-Related Nobel Prize Winners, Uju Nkwocha Afulezi and Ugochukwu Uju Afulezi present the first assembled information on African and Africa-related Nobel Prize winners.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9780761821021
• ISBN-10: 0761821023
• Artikelnr.: 55291300

Autorenporträt

Uju Nkwocha Afulezi is Associate Professor/Librarian, CUNY.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 History and Overview:
Chapter 5 Alfred Nobel
Chapter 6 The Will
Chapter 7 The Norwegian Nobel Committee
Chapter 8 The Norwegian Nobel Committee: Members, 2000-2001
Chapter 9 The Nobel Diplomas
Chapter 10 Nomination and Selection of Nobel Laureates
Chapter 11 Four Two-Time Winners of Nobel Prizes
Chapter 12 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Chapter 13 Nobel Prize for Economics
Chapter 14 Nobel Prize for Medicine
Chapter 15 Nobel Prize for Physics
Chapter 16 Mathematician Awarded Nobel Prize
Chapter 17 The Following Have Received the Nobel Peace Prize
Chapter 18 Nobel's Assets and the Nobel Prize
Chapter 19 How they Pick the Nobel Prize in Literature
Chapter 20 Heroines of Peace: The Nine Nobel Women:
Chapter 21 Heroines of Peace: The Nine Nobel Women
Chapter 22 Nobel, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and Women Prize Winners
Chapter 23 The Prize Winners:
Chapter 24 Ralph Bunche (1904-1971), U.S.A.-Peace, 1950
Chapter 25 Doctors without Borders, International-Medicine, 1999
Chapter 26 Nadine Gordimer (1923-), South Africa-Literature, 1991
Chapter 27 Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskojold (1905-1961), Sweden-Peace,
1961
Chapter 28 Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), U.S.A.-Peace, 1964
Chapter 29 Frederick Willem de Klerk (1936-), South Africa-Peace, 1993
Chapter 30 Albert John Luthuli (1898-1967), South Africa-Peace, 1960
Chapter 31 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-), South Africa-Peace, 1993
Chapter 32 Toni Morrison (1931-), U.S.A.-Literature, 1993
Chapter 33 Mohamed Anwar el Sadat (1918-1981), Egypt-Peace, 1978
Chapter 34 Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), France-Peace, 1952
Chapter 35 Desmond Mpilo Tutu (1931-), South Africa-Peace, 1984
Chapter 36 Wole Soyinka (1934-), Nigeria-Literature, 1986