GREAT SCIENTISTS

GREAT SOCIAL WORKERS

In his Nobel Lecture Muhammad Yunus explained what initiated his work fighting against poverty.

"I became involved in the poverty issue not as a policymaker or a researcher. I became involved because poverty was all around me, and I could not turn away from it. 

In 1974, I found it difficult to teach elegant theories of economics in the university classroom, in the backdrop of a terrible famine in Bangladesh. Suddenly, I felt the emptiness of those theories in the face of crushing hunger and poverty. I wanted to do something immediate to help people around me, even if it was just one human being, to get through another day with a little more ease."

Wishing a happy birthday to Yunus today who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his efforts to fight poverty. He granted poor people small loans on easy terms - micro-credit - before founding Grameen Bank to expand the initiative on a larger scale.

Read his full Nobel Lecture: https://bit.ly/2yGwE5h

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GREAT WRITERS : PEARL S.BUCK-2:

PEARL SYDENSTRICKER BUCK LIFE & WORKS

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LITERATURE FOREVER

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GREAT WRITERS : PEARL S. BUCK-1

JUNE 26 IS THE BIRTHDAY OF PEARL. S. BUCK

*Pearl Sydenstricker Buck* was an American writer and novelist. 

As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. 

Her novel *The Good Earth* was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the *Pulitzer Prize* in 1932. 

Born: 26 June 1892, Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States

Died: 6 March 1973, Danby, Vermont, United States

Movies: The Good Earth, Pavilion of Women, Dragon Seed, Satan Never Sleeps, China Sky, more

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Nobel Prize in Literature

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GREAT SCIENTISTS : MARY-BRIT MOSER

May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, who is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Wikipedia

Born: 4 January 1963 (age 57 years), Fosnavåg, Norway

Spouse: Edvard Moser (m. 1985–2016)

Children: Isabel Moser, Ailin Moser

Education: University of Oslo (1995), University of Oslo (1984–1990), more

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

Fields: Neuroscience, Psychology

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PIONEERING BOTANIST: PROF.DR.AKIRA MIYAWAKI

40 YEARS OLD MIYAWAKI FOREST

IN YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY BY PROF (DR.) AKIRA MIYAWAKI

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CROWD FORESTING

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Watch the full-fledged natural forest planted by Prof (Dr.) Akira Miyawaki in 1976. He experimented on forest creating based on potential natural vegetation theory (mostly using native plant saplings). This video was recorded on August 2019, ie after 40 years of plantation.

Grateful thanks to Prof.Dr.Akiro Miyawaki, CROWD FORESTING and YouTube.

BIOGRAPHY OF PROF.DR.AKIRA MIYAWAKI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Miyawaki

By BemanHerish - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86630496

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GREAT GAMECHANGERS

What does Charles Darwin have in common with Johannes Gutenberg—or with Jackson Pollock, Martin Luther, Betty Friedan, Mohandas Gandhi, Steve Jobs, and DJ Kool Herc? They were the disruptors, upending established cultural, technical, spiritual, or scientific paradigms and altering the way we live forever.

In #thedisruptors, bestselling author Alan Axelrod presents dramatic and illuminating profiles, accompanied by original line drawings, of 50 visionaries who didn’t settle for the status quo.

 

Meet 50 women and men who broke the rules... and changed the world.

GREAT STATESMEN: MORARJI DESAI

DOCUMENTARY ON FORMER PM MORARJI DESAI'S POLITICAL JOURNEY

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PRASAR BHARATI ARCHIVES

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Watch a documentary on former Prime Minister of India Morarji Desai, where he can be seen talking about atrocities during Emergency, non-proliferation treaty and the vision of his new government then in 1977.

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BIOGRAPHY OF MORARJI DESAI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morarji_Desai

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GREAT SCIENTISTS: SECRET LIFE OF ISAAC NEWTON

SECRET LIFE OF ISAAC NEWTON 

Full Documentaries Films

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FULL DOCUMENTARIES

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Full Docmentary - Secret Life of Isaac Newton - Full Documentaries Films

Isaac Newton produced many works that would now be classified as occult studies. These works explored chronology, alchemy, and Biblical interpretation (especially of the Apocalypse). Newton's scientific work may have been of lesser personal importance to him, as he placed emphasis on rediscovering the occult wisdom of the ancients. In this sense, some[1] believe that any reference to a "Newtonian Worldview" as being purely mechanical in nature is somewhat inaccurate.

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INTERESTING INTERVIEWS : ROWAN ATKINSON

ROWAN ATKINSON IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW 1993

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CIGARSONMARS

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interview from Denmark, 1993.

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GREAT SCIENTISTS :

Wernher von Braun, (born March 23, 1912, Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]—died June 16, 1977, Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.), German engineer who played a prominent role in all aspects of rocketry and space exploration, first in Germany and after World War II in the United States.

GREAT SCIENTISTS : Norman Borlaug

'The father of the Green Revolution' - Norman Borlaug - is credited with saving millions from mass starvation.

The story of Norman Borlaug and the green revolution demonstrates how the combination of science, education and social entrepreneurship can transform the world - and save millions of lives.

The cartoon shows Borlaug cradling a new hardy type of wheat, called dwarf wheat, which was highly disease-resistant and not easily affected by wind and rain. Borlaug worked with scientists and farmers in Mexico to introduce the new breed. Thanks to their collaboration the country became self-sufficient in wheat in about 11 years.

Borlaug believed in educating farmers on the ground, a practice that turned out to be very successful. The learnings from Mexico were later taken up by other countries including India and Pakistan.

Learn more about Peace Laureate Norman Borlaug: https://bit.ly/2UQLbRs

GREAT NATHEMATICIANS: PYTHAGORAS

MINI BIOGRAPHY - PYTHAGORAS

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BS VIDEOS: MATH CHANNEL

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In this video I highlight the facts about Pythagoras as well as the controversy surrounding his contributions.

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GENIUSES: BEING WERNHER VON BRAUN | AMERICAN GENIUS

BEING WERNHER VON BRAUN | AMERICAN GENIUS

29,422 views•Jun 9, 2015

National Geographic

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Wernher von Braun left Nazi Germany to help the United States compete in the Space Race.

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About National Geographic:

National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible.

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GREAT SCIENTISTS : ACHARYA P. C. RAY

INTERESTING INTERVIEWS: RAGHURAM RAJAN INTERVIEW

RAGHURAM RAJAN INTERVIEW

On 2019 Lok Sabha Polls, Minimum Income Scheme, Job Crisis & More

89,808 views•Mar 26, 2019

INDIA TODAY

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Former RBI Governor, RAGHURAM RAJAN in an exclusive to India Today speaks to RAJDEEP SARDESAI and RAJEEV DUBEY, Managing Editor of Business Today on his latest book titled, The Third Pillar. In this exclusive interview, Raghuram Rajan opens up about the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2019, unemployment crisis, Minimum Income Scheme,  the economic policies of the political parties and more.

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GREAT SCIENTISTS: THE FANTASTIC MR FEYNMAN

BBC - THE FANTASTIC MR FEYNMAN

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SEBASTIAAN DEERENBERG

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REVIEW

GERARD O'DONOVAN reviews The Fantastic Mr Feynman

A documentary exploring the life and career of noted physicist Richard Feynmann.

4 out of 5 stars

Richard Feynman, whose diagrams provided the first intuitive way of drawing particle interactions

By Gerard O'Donovan10:30PM BST 12 May 2013CommentsComments

Recently I watched The Challenger, an engrossing BBC Two drama starring William Hurt as a scientist battling terminal illness and deliberate obfuscation to get at the truth behind the 1986 space shuttle disaster. Beautifully crafted, it revealed as much about the indefatigable spirit of the physicist Richard Feynman as it did of his discovery that shockingly basic engineering failings had caused the disaster. It was aired again ahead of The Fantastic Mr Feynman (BBC Two, Sunday), an absorbing documentary that burrowed deep into the life of “one of the most extraordinary scientists of the 20th century”.

This was biography in the heroic mould, an unalloyed celebration of a man whose maverick tendencies affected everything he did in life (he died in 1988), from his wartime work on the A-bomb, to the problem solving that won him the Nobel Prize for his work in quantum electrodynamics. But the film also revealed a restless spirit who was as uncomfortable with his Nobel prize (“I don’t believe in honours, honours bother me”) as he was with knowing that his wartime work had contributed to tens of thousands of deaths.

At root were emotional factors: an adored father who instilled a dyed-in-the-wool contempt for authority; and an adored first wife, Arlene, lost to tuberculosis at 26. Factors that tempered his remarkable mathematical gifts with a broad streak of humanity and a sense of life’s uncertainty.

Feynman’s impish charm and bubbling-over desire to share his inexhaustible scientific wonder crackled off the screen. “He discovered a new law of nature; only very few people did that,” said his son Carl with pride. More likely though it is Feynman’s still rarer skills as a communicator of science – living on in the internet age through countless YouTube tributes and his enduringly popular books – that will keep his place secure among the greats.

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GREAT CRICKETERS: MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI

M S DHONI | BIOGRAPHY

ALL ABOUT MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI

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Mar 12, 2019

AARINKYA CREATION

M. S. Dhoni is an Indian cricketer best remembered for leading the Indian ODI team to its second World Cup win in 2011. He made his ODI debut for the national team on December 23, 2004, against Bangladesh and went on to serve as the captain of the Indian ODI team from 2007 to 2016. He debuted as a Test player against Sri Lanka on 2nd December 2005, and led the team in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. Known for his aggressive playing style, he is revered as one of the best "finishers" in the limited over format of the game. He is also one of the most successful Indian captains and holds a number of records for his captaincy. Notably, the Indian team became the No.1 Test team in 2009 under his captaincy. He also led the Indian team to win the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. While his achievements in the IPL format often get overshadowed by his international records, he also helped his team, Chennai Super Kings, win IPL twice in 2010 and 2011.

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GREAT SCIENTISTS : ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

GREAT ARCHITECTS: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT:

Man Who Built America (2017)

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Sep 17, 2019

MANUFACTURING INTELLECT

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Frank Lloyd Wright is probably America's greatest ever architect. But few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them and the secrets of his radical Welsh background.

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GREAT WRITERS :KAFKA

At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.

Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.

The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll saying "please don't cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures."

Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka's life.

During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.

Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (she bought one) that had returned to Berlin.

"It doesn't look like my doll at all," said the girl.

Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me." the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happy home.

A year later Kafka died.

Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:

"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way."

GREAT STATESMEN : LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI

#TimeLapse #History

"There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go. But for us, there need be no difficulty or hesitation, no looking to right or left. Our way is straight and clear—the building up of a secular mixed-economy democracy at home with freedom and prosperity, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with select nations", said Lal Bahadur Shastri in his first broadcast as Prime Minister on June 11, 1964.

And he lived up to his words. Showing exemplary leadership , he helped India navigate through probably its most crisis-ridden period.

From calming the violent anti-Hindi agitation that erupted across the southern states to taking the first steps in resolving India’s biggest food shortage by promoting the Green Revolution (and convincing people to voluntarily give up one meal so that the food saved could be distributed to the affected populace) and the White Revolution (Amul cooperative) — Shastri oversaw several eventful moments in India's history. 

However, his crowning moment was delivering probably one of the most iconic slogans of Independent India, ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan.’

In a broadcast to the nation in October 1965, Shastri said, “We in India are passing through a difficult period in our history...The fields at home are no less important than fields in forward areas. The men in arms have to be supported by the men on farms.”

That same year, in yet another speech, Shastri iterated and explained the slogan he had raised. He said: “Food self-sufficiency is as important as a strong defence system...The kisan is as much a soldier as the jawan.”

Here's an interesting incident from his life that underlines the incredible honesty of an iconic leader who was austere to a fault.

In 1965, the Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri bought a Fiat car after taking a loan of Rs 5,000 from Punjab National Bank. When his loan was approved early, Shastri told the bank, “The common man should have the same privilege”.

The legend passed away at Tashkent in 1966 before he could repay the loan.

Later, the bank wrote to his widow Lalita Shastri for repayment of the loan. The lady promised to pay it back in instalments from her family pension. And she repaid every rupee of the Rs 5,000.

Today, the fiat car still stands at Shastri's home, reminding us of the era of a different breed of men.

Stay tuned for more such interesting stories from history in our #TimeLapse series!

INTERESTING INTERVIEWS:- JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU'S INTERVIEW

WITH ARNOLD MICHAELIS - 1958

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May 14, 2019

Prasar Bharati Archives

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Salutations to Pandi Jawaharlal Nehru.

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GREAT SCIENTISTS : FRANCIS CRICK

Today would have been the 104th birthday of Francis Crick, was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his part in the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/2DHErPo

EMPEROR ASHOKA, THE GREAT!

GREAT SCIENTISTS

PARENT-CHILD PAIRS WHO WON THE NOBEL

Did you know that seven parent-child pairs have been awarded a Nobel Prize? 

 

On Global Day of Parents, let's take a look at the seven pairs: 

Marie (Chemistry 1911) and Pierre Curie (Physics 1903)

Irène Joliot-Curie (Chemistry 1935) 

William Bragg (Physics 1915) 

Lawrence Bragg (Physics 1915) 

Niels Bohr (Physics 1922)

Aage N. Bohr (Physics 1975) 

Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Chemistry 1929) 

Ulf von Euler (Medicine 1970) 

Arthur Kornberg (Medicine 1959) 

Roger D. Kornberg (Chemistry 2006) 

Manne Siegbahn (Physics 1924) 

Kai M. Siegbahn (Physics 1981)  

J. J. Thomson (Physics 1906) 

George Paget Thomson (Physics 1937) 

Picture: Marie with her daughters Irène and Eve sitting on a bench, 1905.

#DayofParents

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*GREAT SCIENTISTS*

“Thank you for saving my life."

Tomas Dahl (pictured left) was diagnosed with tonsil cancer and told there was no cure. But after trying the cancer therapy pioneered by 2018 Medicine Laureates James Allison and Tasuku Honjo (centre and right), he emerged cancer-free.

Dahl was one of several cancer patients who had the chance to share their story with the two Nobel Laureates at an emotional meeting in Stockholm, Sweden in December 2018. “Meeting the people who have benefitted from our research is the real prize for me,” said Allison. “When I meet patients who tell me: ‘You saved my life,' it is an unforgettable moment,” added Honjo.

After his diagnosis in January 2017, Dahl began convention cancer treatments – radiation, chemotherapy and surgery. No treatment worked. In February 2018, he was informed that there was nothing else that could be done. "I had a few months left to live,” says Dahl. "I explained to my kids that I would not make it."

In March, however, he began a new treatment: immunotherapy and – in his words – “was awarded the gift of life. The treatment had completely erased all cancer cells in my body.”

“There simply aren’t words to express the gratitude I feel,” he told Allison and Honjo. “I would not be here today if it wasn’t for you and your discovery.”

Allison and Honjo were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a new cancer therapy which stimulates our immune system to attack tumour cells.

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#CoronaWarriors #InThisTogether

"We had hordes of people coming days and we kept continuously cooking food for them... We welcomed all with smiles and folded hands, irrespective of caste, religion... My regular team of 17 'sevaks', including 11 cooks and other helpers were overworked but ensured a non-stop supply of fresh, piping hot food," says Baba Karnail Singh Khaira.

For the last two months, 81-year-old Khaira has been serving meals free of cost to scores of travellers on the National Highway-7. His ramshackle tin shed with plastic sheets is the only spot that serves meals on a stretch of nearly 450 km.

"This is a remote, tribal region. Behind us for nearly 150-km, and ahead for nearly 300 km, there's not a single dhaba or restaurant... So most people prefer to halt at 'Guru ka langar' and avail of our round-the-clock services," says Khaira.

And that's not all. The compassionate man has also been feeding chapati-jaggery daily to over 250 hungry stray animals in the vicinity, including dogs, cats and cows.

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Respectful Salute to Mr Khaira and grateful thanks to THE BETTER INDIA.

GREAT SCIENTISTS : KIP THORNE

GREAT ECONOMISTS : William Nordhaus

”The most important job I do is teaching.”

Happy birthday to William Nordhaus!

The same morning he learnt he'd been awarded the 2018 Prize in Economic Sciences, Nordhaus taught his intermediate macroeconomics class at Yale University. The press conference regarding the announcement had to be postponed so he could finish his class.

Nordhaus was awarded the 2018 Prize in Economic Sciences "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis."

#NobelPrize

William Dawbney Nordhaus is an American economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his work in economic modeling and climate change. Together with Paul Romer he won the laureates of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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GREAT WRITERS : Svetlana Alexievich

"I am always looking for words of love. Hate will not save us. Only love."

- Svetlana Alexievich speaking during the 2015 Nobel Prize banquet. She turns 72 today - join us in wishing her a happy birthday. 

#NobelPrize

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award. 

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GREAT WRITERS : GABRIEL GARZA MARQUEZ

May 5 :

On this day in 1967 Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece of magical realism, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', was published.

Read an extract: https://bit.ly/2MWeIFm

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.