NOBEL LAUREATE ERNEST RUTHERFORD

Ernest Rutherford, born on this day, discovered alpha and beta radiation, postulated the concept of the nucleus and founded the field of nuclear physics.

Regarded as one of the best experimental physicists, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.

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NOBEL LAUREATE Werner Forssmann's Birthday

Today we celebrate the bravery and achievements of Werner Forssmann, born #OnThisDay, who put his life at risk by performing the first human heart catheterisation - on himself.

Forssmann knew his superiors would never approve of his plan. The young German surgeon was frustrated by how difficult it was to access the human heart, but he doubted he'd get permission to perform a risky new procedure. And so, in 1929, he tried it on himself.

From the crook of his arm he inserted a thin catheter through a vein into his heart and took an X-ray photo. It was the very first heart catheterisation, which today is a common procedure used to find heart defects, deliver medicine and open up blocked arteries.

The experiment paved the way for many types of heart studies and in 1956 Forssmann shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

FREDERICK BANTING, DISCOVERER OF INSULIN

NOBEL LAUREATE Linda Buck

How do you know if someone is calling regarding a job or a Nobel Prize?

As Linda Buck’s phone number was unlisted, the Nobel committee instead called the director of Buck’s division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

The director received a call from Sweden at 2:00 am in Seattle asking for the number of Linda Buck. As Buck was on the faculty search committee, the director assumed that the call was from someone that was interested in the vacant faculty position, but was unaware of the time difference.

The director suggested that if the caller was interested in getting the job, an early morning phone call wasn’t the best way to do it. When the director heard the real reason for the call, he replied: “That will get you a job here!”

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MAJOR DHYAN CHAND, GREATEST HOCKEY PLAYER OF ALL TIME

115th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF MAJOR DHYAN CHAND TODAY,  BEING CELEBRATED AS NATIONAL SPORTS DAY IN INDIA. 

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR : "I HAVE A DREAM "

"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character".

#OnThisDay, 28 August 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke immortal words to a crowd of over 200,000 people who had gathered for the now historic March on Washington to demand an end to racial segregation in the USA, and for equality in jobs and civil rights.

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MAX PLANCK : FATHER OF QUANTUM PHYSICS

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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, ForMemRS was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. 

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Born: 23 April 1858, Kiel, Germany

Died: 4 October 1947, Göttingen, Germany

Full name: Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Max Planck Medal, Copley Medal, Franklin Medal, more

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Nobel Laureate George Whipple's Birthday

Anaemia, or blood deficiency, means that the amount of red blood cells in the blood is too low. In the 1920s Nobel Laureate George Whipple, born on this day, showed that formation of blood cells was stimulated by a diet rich in foods like liver, kidney, meat and apricots. His work led to successful treatment of anaemia.

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George Hoyt Whipple was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. 

Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia". 

Born: 28 August 1878, Ashland, New Hampshire, United States

Died: 1 February 1976, Rochester, New York, United States

Field: Medicine

Education: Oneida Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, more

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Notable student: Ernest William Goodpasture

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Remembering the co-developer of the CAT scan, Godfrey Hounsfield

"They tried hard to educate me but I responded only to physics and mathematics with any ease and moderate enthusiasm."

Remembering the co-developer of the CAT scan, Godfrey Hounsfield, who was born on this day 101 years ago.

Growing up on a farm with mechanical and electrical gadgets, Hounsfield's interest in electrical engineering was awoken at an early age. He quickly became intrigued by what machines could accomplish and be used for.

During the 1960s, Hounsfield developed an apparatus in which clusters of X-ray beams sent through the body from different angles are registered when they have passed the body. Through advanced computer calculations based on the measurement data, three-dimensional images of different cross sections of the body are created. The CT or CAT scan was born.

Godfrey Hounsfield shared the 1979 Medicine Prize with Allan Cormack "for the development of computer assisted tomography (CAT)."

Read more about the discovery and his life: https://bit.ly/2LIOvMW

INTERESTING SPEECHES : PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ADDRESS TO THE U N GENERAL ASSEMBLY

PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S FINAL ADDRESS TO THE 

UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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GREAT SCIENTISTS : NOBEL LAUREATE PROF. JOHN B. GOODENOUGH

John Bannister Goodenough is an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. 

He is a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin. 

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Born: 25 July 1922 (age 98 years), Jena, Germany

Full name: John Bannister Goodenough

Nationality: American

Spouse: Irene Wiseman (m. 1951)

Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Enrico Fermi Award, more

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MOTHER TERESA

In 1979, Mother Teresa (26 Aug 1910 - 5 Sep 1997) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She was the Leader of Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India.

At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months’ training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.

On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, “The Missionaries of Charity”, whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. Mother Teresa and her helpers built homes for orphans, nursing homes for lepers and hospices for the terminally ill in Calcutta. Mother Teresa's organization also engaged in aid work in other parts of the world.

The modest nun became known all over the world, and money poured in. But she was also criticized. It was alleged that dying people in the hospices were refused pain relief, whereas Mother Teresa herself accepted hospital treatment. She also held a conservative view on abortion. She was regarded as a spokesperson for the Vatican. In September 2016, Mother Teresa was made a saint by Pope Francis.

GREAT INVENTORS : Gustaf Dalén:

Do you recognise the Nobel Prize-awarded inventor and industrialist with one of his favourite objects; the bicycle?

This photography from 1895 depicts Gustaf Dalén with his bicycle. At the time, the bike was Gustaf Dalén's favourite object. He saw great potential for its technical development and improvement, such as the brake mechanics.

Already at the age of 15, Dalén was so fascinated by the construction of a bicycle that he decided to build his own bike. He built another bike using more advanced technical developments, until he finally bought a factory-made bicycle.

In addition to building bicycles, Nobel Laureate Gustaf Dalén developed a method for emitting short flashes of light, thereby reducing gas consumption for light houses and buoys. He also invented the AGA cooker, a new type of user-friendly stove that was capable of a range of culinary techniques. Gustaf Dalén was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys."

Learn more about Gustaf Dalén: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1912/dalen/biographical/

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NOBEL LAUREATE Theodor Kocher

111 years ago Theodor Kocher was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was the first surgeon ever to receive a Nobel Prize. 

One of Kocher's accomplishments was his groundbreaking surgical solution related to the thyroid gland. 

The thyroid gland is a gland in the neck that is destroyed by goiters, which can lead to difficulty in breathing in serious cases. This led to attempts to remove the gland by surgery. However, this was risky and could result in serious health problems. 

In 1883 Kocher shed light on the thyroid gland's function in metabolism, and showed how surgery could be carried out more safely through good hygiene and minimal blood loss. He also showed that a viable part of the gland needs to be left intact during the operation. It is said that by using these scientific methods in surgery the mortality of thyroidectomies was reduced below 1% in his operations.

Photo: Solid cell nest of the thyroid gland. Theodor Kocher in Berne.

GREAT WRITERS : Kazuo Ishiguro

Have you read any of Kazuo Ishiguro's books?

"An Ishiguro story is like a mix of Jane Austen and Franz Kafka. This may sound odd. Strictly speaking, it should be impossible. But Ishiguro shows that it works. It works well indeed. Herein lies much of his greatness."

This is how Ishiguro's literature was described during the 2017 Nobel Prize award ceremony.

Who do you think will be awarded the 2020 Literature Prize? Find out on 8 October.

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL is an English novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan and moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world. 

Born: 8 November 1954 (age 65 years), Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

Spouse: Lorna MacDougall (m. 1986)

Movies: Never Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day, The White Countess, more

Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Booker Prize, Costa Book of the Year, more

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NOBEL LAUREATE : Robert Curl

"When I was nine years old, my parents gave me a chemistry set. Within a week, I had decided to become a chemist and never wavered from that choice. As I grew my interest in chemistry grew more intense, if not more sophisticated. (...) 

I was not a particularly distinguished student as a child. My grades were good but obtained more by steady work than any brilliance on my part. I vividly remember my father telling me that one of my elementary school teachers had told him that I was not brilliant but I was a steady hard worker. Somehow the further I progressed in school, the easier it became to do well."

From an early age Robert Curl realised that he wants to become a chemist, read his life story: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1996/curl/biographical/

Robert Curl shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley "for their discovery of fullerenes".

Konstantin Novoselov, the Scientist who discovered GRAPHENE

Happy birthday to Konstantin Novoselov.

Together with Andre Geim, Novoselov produced the material graphene in 2004. They usually used Fridays to discover and explore things that they didn't have time to experiment with during their research projects. They then had access to the lab but also had the freedom to experiment and explore areas others might find a bit strange. One of these Fridays they started experimenting with graphite and tape and managed to produce the new material graphene. 

After successfully producing graphene, Novoselov and Geim mapped its properties: incredibly thin but still incredibly strong, good heat and electrical conductivity, almost entirely transparent yet very dense. Graphene has created new possibilities within materials technology and electronics.

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

GREAT ECONOMISTS : Robert Merton Solow

"I estimate that if I had neglected the students, I could have written 25 percent more scientific papers. The choice was easy to make and I do not regret it."

Warmest congratulations to economist, professor and dedicated teacher Robert Solow on his 96th birthday.

Solow was awarded the 1987 Prize in Economic Sciences "for his contributions to the theory of economic growth."

Robert Merton Solow, GCIH, is an American economist whose work on the theory of economic growth culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him. 

He is currently Emeritus Institute Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been a professor since 1949. 

Born: 23 August 1924 (age 96 years), Brooklyn, New York, United States

Spouse: Barbara Lewis (m. 1945–2014)

Contributions: Exogenous growth model

Other notable students: Mario Draghi

Influenced: Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Romer, David Romer, George Akerlof, Robert J. Gordon, more

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Theoretical Physicist Abdus Salam

Take a sneak peek at theoretical physicist Abdus Salam's office. 

The picture was taken in 1983, four years after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg. They made significant contributions to the electroweak unification theory.

For more than forty years, Abdus Salam was a prolific researcher in theoretical elementary particle physics. During this time, he either pioneered or was associated with all the important developments in this field, maintaining a constant and fertile flow of brilliant ideas. Besides his scientific work, he served on a number of United Nations committees concerned with the advancement of science and technology in developing countries.

He used his share of the Nobel Prize award money for the benefit of physicists from developing countries. 

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SAVIOURS OF MANKIND : DR. ALEXANDER FLEMING

In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the green mould he was working with produced a substance that could kill many common bacteria that infect humans. He called this new, exciting substance "mould juice". After a couple of months it would be renamed 'penicillin'.

This discovery led to the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Which discovery do you think will receive this year's prize?

Learn more about the 1945 Medicine Prize: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1945/summary/

HENRY DUNANT, FOUNDER OF INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS

Henry Dunant, the founder of the International Red Cross, was the very first person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dunant was a passionate humanitarian but failed in his business affairs - people who had invested in his projects lost their money. This made him so unpopular that in 1867 he resigned as Secretary of the Red Cross (ICRC) and left Geneva, never to return.

More than 20 years later, Dunant was found in a small Swiss village. For many years he had lived as a beggar and slept outdoors. After being 'rediscovered', he received various prizes and awards, including the very first Nobel Peace Prize.

When he died in 1910, Dunant was buried without any ceremony in accordance with his wishes. He had not spent any of the Nobel Prize money he had received and left most of it to charities.

Learn more about Dunant: https://bit.ly/33M9vJf

GREAT SCIENTISTS : Akira Yoshino

Akira Yoshino developed the first commercially viable lithium-ion battery.

As a young boy, Yoshino discovered chemistry after reading the book 'The Chemical History of a Candle' by Michael Faraday. Although he first dreamed about becoming an archaeologist, luckily for us he went into chemistry and developed lithium-ion batteries.

Yoshino shared the 2019 Chemistry Prize with Stanley Whittingham and John Goodenough for their research on lithium-ion batteries.

Who do you think will receive this year's prizes?

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He is a fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation and a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya. He created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery which became used widely in cellular phones and notebook computers. Yoshino was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside M.

Born: 30 January 1948

Profession: Chemist

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NOBEL LAUREATE : Happy 86th birthday to physicist John Hall

Happy 86th birthday to physicist John Hall - join us in congratulating him! 

According to quantum physics, light and other electromagnetic radiation appear in the form of quanta, packets with fixed energies, which also correspond to energy transitions in atoms. Consequently, determining the frequency of light waves provides information about the atoms' properties, benchmarks for time and length, and the possibility of determining physical constants.

Around the year 2000, John Hall and Theodor Hänsch developed the frequency comb technique, in which laser light with a series of equidistant frequencies is used to measure frequencies with great precision.

They were awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique."

Learn more: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2005/hall/biographical/

John Lewis "Jan" Hall is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch and Roy Glauber for his work in precision spectroscopy. 

Born: 21 August 1934 (age 86 years), Denver, Colorado, United States

Field: Physics

Books: Online bibliographic databases, Cell membranes and ion transport, more

Education: College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, South High School, more

Notable student: Jun Ye

Awards: Frederic Ives Medal, Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, more

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MARIE & PIERRE CURIE, NOBEL LAURATES

"If it is true that one is seriously thinking about me (for the Prize), I very much wish to be considered together with Madame Curie with respect to our research on radioactive bodies."

In a letter in 1903, several members of the l'Académie des Sciences, including Henri Poincaré and Gaston Darboux, had nominated Becquerel and Pierre Curie for the Prize in Physics. Marie's name was not mentioned.

This caused Gösta Mittag-Leffler, a professor of mathematics at Stockholm University College, to write to Pierre Curie. That letter has not survived but Pierre Curie's answer, dated on 6 August, 1903, has been preserved. The quote above is an extract from Pierre Curie's letter.

The 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie (pictured left) and Marie Curie, née Sklodowska (pictured right).

Learn more about Pierre and Marie Curie: goo.gl/LAFddY

Pierre Curie was the love of Curie's life and her partner in science. They met in 1894 when Marie Curie worked in Pierre Curie's lab; they were married the following year. [Pierre] had dedicated his life to his dream of science: he felt the need of a companion who could live his dream with him.

Discovered: Polonium, Radium

Born: 1867, Warsaw

Advisors: Henri Becquerel

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NOBEL LAUREATE Hideki Shirakawa, for conductive polymers

Happy birthday to the co-discoverer of conductive polymers - Hideki Shirakawa!

Shirakawa shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with physicist Alan Jay Heeger and chemist Alan Graham MacDiarmid for discovering and developing conductive polymers.

His interest in science and chemistry commenced at an early age:

"For the ten years from the third grade of elementary school to the end of high school, I lived in the small city of Takayama, a town of less than sixty thousand, located in the middle of Honshu, Japan. In this small town, rich in natural beauty, I spent my days enthusiastically collecting insects and plants, and making radios. My affinity for science was awakened..."

Read his full biography: https://bit.ly/2XK7E7F

NOBEL LAUREATE Wilhelm Röntgen

This is one of the most famous images in photographic history.

The first ever X-ray image was taken in 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen, awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics, 1901.

The image of his wife Bertha's hand (wedding ring clearly visible) propelled Röntgen into an international celebrity. The medical implications were immediately realised. Röntgen named the discovery X-radiation, or X-rays, after the mathematical term 'X' which denotes something unknown.

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MARIE CURIE, THE HUMANITARIAN

"How the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and her brilliant teenage daughter set out to mend the ugliness of war with ingenuity and sheer human courage."

Learn about the humanitarian heroine who helped save millions of lives during World War I: Marie Sklodowska Curie.

Read more about her: http://bit.ly/2Ogl3fe

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HISTORIC EVENTS : HISTORIC KAMALA HARRIS VP NOMINATION

 

BARACK OBAMA'S FIERY, EMOTIONAL SPEECH SETS 

THE STAGE FOR 

HISTORIC KAMALA HARRIS VP NOMINATION

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REMEMBERING RAJIV GANDHI

Former Prime Minister of India,  Shri RAJIV GANDHI. 

His greatest contribution is he ushered in the INDIAN COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION. 

He fully supported Sam Pitroda,  the Real Architect of Indian Communication Revolution.

His 75th Birth Anniversary falls on August 20.

So to me,  Rajiv was the FATHER OF INDIAN COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION. 

28 NOBEL LAUREATES!

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It is NIELS BOHR,  (and NOT  Neils Bohr) 

OBAMA

"Do not let them take away your power," Barack Obama said at the #DemConvention. "Do not let them take away your democracy. Make a plan right now for how you are going to get involved and vote."

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DOUBLE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, LINUS PAULING

Today we remember Linus Pauling, the only person to have been awarded two undivided Nobel Prizes.

Did you know that Pauling discovered the structure of the alpha-helix molecule when he folded a piece of paper? What's more - Pauling was a champion of peace and took a stand against nuclear weapons.

In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Eight years later he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1962 for his opposition to nuclear weapons.

NOBEL LAUREATE Daniel Kahneman.

”Jews were required to wear the Star of David and to obey a 6 p.m. curfew. I had gone to play with a Christian friend and had stayed too late. I turned my brown sweater inside out to walk the few blocks home. As I was walking down an empty street, I saw a German soldier approaching. He was wearing the black uniform that I had been told to fear more than others - the one worn by specially recruited SS soldiers. As I came closer to him, trying to walk fast, I noticed he was looking at me intently. Then he beckoned me over, picked me up, and hugged me. I was terrified he would notice the star inside my sweater. He was speaking to me with great emotion, in German. When he put me down, he opened his wallet, showed me a picture of a boy, and gave me some money. I went home more certain that ever that my mother was right: people were endlessly complicated and interesting.”

The interest in human behaviour started from an early age for Daniel Kahneman. 

Psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman was awarded the 2002 Prize in Economic Sciences "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty." 

Who do you think will be awarded this year's Prize in Economic Sciences?

Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier

"There are many questions, which can be resolved only by hard work and innovative thinking."

Happy 88th birthday to Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier - join us in congratulating him!

Luc Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus.

In 1983, Luc Montaigner and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi discovered a retrovirus in patients with swollen lymph glands that attacked lymphocytes - a kind of blood cell that is very important to the body's immune system. Retroviruses are viruses whose genomes consist of RNA and whose genes can be incorporated into host cells' DNA. The retrovirus, later named Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), proved to be the cause of the immunodeficiency disease AIDS. This discovery has been crucial in radically improving treatment methods for AIDS sufferers.

GREAT STATESMEN : KOFI ANNAN

Today we remember Kofi Annan, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize alongside the United Nations for his work for a better organised and more peaceful world.

Read Annan's full Nobel Lecture: https://bit.ly/2XoWfef

HOMAGE TO PANDIT JASRAJ 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Pandit Jasraj passes away. 

Pandit Jasraj, Indian classical vocalist, belonging to the Mewati gharana passes away. His musical career spanned more than 80 years and led to numerous major awards. His performances of classical and semi-classical vocals became albums and film soundtracks. Jasraj taught music in India, Canada and the US. 

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INSPIRING SPEECHES : DR.SHASHI THAROOR ON HIS JOURNEY AND LIFE EXPERIENCES

 

DR.SHASHI THAROOR ON HIS JOURNEY 

AND LIFE EXPERIENCES

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DR. SHASHI THAROOR OFFICIAL

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VALMIKI'S VISION OF RAMA, THE PERSONIFICATION OF DHARMA

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INSPIRING SPEECHES : CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE ADDRESSES HARVARD'S CLASS OF 2018

 

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE ADDRESSES 

HARVARD'S CLASS OF 2018

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addresses Harvard's Class of 2018 on Class Day, May 23, 2018.

 

A Nigerian-born writer whose work has been translated into more than 30 languages, Adichie is the author of the novels “Purple Hibiscus,” which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; “Half of a Yellow Sun,” which won the Orange Prize; and “Americanah,” a 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award winner, which she finalized during a fellowship year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her most recent book, “Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions,” was published in March 2017.

 

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LONE FOX DANCING : AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RUSKIN BOND

One of the most wonderful autobiographies I have ever read in my 40+ years voracious readership life.

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