Nobel Prize Winners

Marie Skłodowska Curie

Marie Sklodowska Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry and the first person ever to win a Nobel Prize twice. Curie and her husband discovered polonium and radium. After her husband passed, she further developed X-rays. She was born in 1867 and passed away in 1934.

Nadia Murad

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Nadia Murad is an Isis human trafficking survivor. Her town had been attacked and she had lost her 6 brothers and mother. At night people came to buy these women and girls and abused and assaulted them. She got away and now is standing up for young girls and woman who are currently or had been tortured in the way she had. She was given the Nobel Peace Prize for Peace.

Donna Strickland

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Donna Strickland is a Canadian physicist, best known for winning a Nobel Prize for Physics in 2018. She shared the prize with Arthur Ashkin and French physicist Gérard Mourou. All three of them were responsible for the ground-breaking invention of  “chirped pulse amplification (CPA), a method of making pulses of laser light of high power and short duration.” This innovation is used in many ways, including but not limited to cancer cures, cell phone screen manufacturing, laser eye surgery, and the study of new physics principles.

Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa had a huge impact on the world. She dedicated her life to helping others around her, mainly the poor. Many people’s prayers for someone who is sick or injured, have been said to of been heard by Mother Teresa and cured. She was born in Skopje, the current capital of the Republic of Macedonia. At a young age, even though she didn’t come from a wealthy family, her mother would always welcome people with open arms to dine with them. When these people would come over, her mother would tell her that it didn’t matter who they are, but that they were people and were equal.

Tu Youyou

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Tu You was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. She had discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, which treats malaria. Chinese medicine inspired Tu, and ended up leading her to find the treatment. This treatment has saved millions of lives. She was born in Ningbo, China on December 30, 1930.