Tag: Nobel Prize
Abdulrazak Gurnah: "The petrified heart": What the oppressed knew
“The Petrified Heart” by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah is published in German translation. The novel tells about a young man from colonized Zanzibar. source site
Peter Higgs is dead: Obituary for Nobel Prize winner – famous despite himself – knowledge
Peter Higgs had plenty of time to prepare and he took advantage of it. In October 2013 it was foreseeable that he would probably win a Nobel Prize, so he…
Obituary for Nobel Prize winner Peter Higgs – Knowledge
Peter Higgs had plenty of time to prepare and he took advantage of it. In October 2013 it was foreseeable that he would probably win a Nobel Prize, so he…
Obituary Daniel Kahneman: The Thinker – Culture
Daniel Kahneman is dead, the man who showed people how to think and how to act. Who founded the research field of behavioral economics and received a Nobel Prize in…
China’s richest man and the Nobel Prize winner for literature is hit by hate – business
Zhong Shanshan’s problems began with the death of his greatest rival. When the once richest Chinese and founder of the Wahaha drinks company, Zong Qinghou, died at the end of…
Jamaica Kincaid’s New Yorker columns “Talk Stories.” – Culture
After reading the columns that Jamaica Kincaid wrote for the 1978 to 1983 new Yorker wrote, one is tempted to try something completely new. For example, writing this text here…
Discovery of the Big Bang: Astrophysicist Arno Penzias has died – Knowledge
In the German Museum in Munich is the experimental setup that solved the mystery of the origin of the universe – three gray boxes the size of refrigerators. The Munich…
Nobel Prize Winners Series: Bright Minds and Their Thoughts
The TU Munich is dedicating itself to the stars of its guild with a portrait exhibition and a lecture matinee. source site
The inventor of growth – economics
Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow died on Thursday at the age of 99. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and famous for his analysis of how…
Konrad Lorenz – what remains of his legacy? Interview with author Ilona Jerger – Munich
The life and work of the famous and controversial behavioral scientist Konrad Lorenz are full of contradictions. The author Ilona Jerger places them in a new novel – and is…