Nobel prize aesthetic

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“It is truly an amazing feeling when you know that you have built something that no one else ever has and it actually works,” said Donna Strickland, only the third woman to win the physics prize.

While not Austrian, the body of work by Hart and Holmström is worth careful study and has interesting implications for Austrians.

Since founded in 1901 by Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to only 50 women in all of its six different categories, which involve science and the

Led by Queen Silvia of Sweden, 75, the Swedish royal family put on a glittering display at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm, wowing in opulent jewels and elegant ball gowns.

Burnaby, Canada. See S. Johnston, History of Science: A Beginner's Guide (Oxford: OneWorld, 2009)

The radiochemist Irène Joliot-Curie was a battlefield radiologist, activist, politician, and daughter of two of the most famous scientists in the world: Marie and Pierre Curie. Along with her husband, Frédéric, she discovered the first-ever artificially created radioactive atoms, paving the way for innumerable medical advances, especially in the fight against cancer.

Portrait of Polish physicist and chemist, Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie (1867-1934) and her husband, French physicist Pierre Curie (1859-1906), circa 1895. Marie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.