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famed Japanese
literary critic
Kobayashi Hideo
toured
China
as a guest of the
Imperial Japanese Army
, with future
Nobel-prize
winner
Kawabata Yasunari
?
notable figures buried at
New Cemetery
in
Belgrade
include
Ivo Andrić
, winner of the 1961
Nobel Prize in Literature
, and
Zoran Đinđić
, the
Prime Minister
of
Serbia
who was
assassinated in 2003
?
the Swedish culture magazine
Artes
often featured future
Nobel Prize in Literature
laureates when edited by
Östen Sjöstrand
, a member of the
Swedish Academy
?
The Land of Green Plums
by
Nobel Prize
winner
Herta Müller
, depicting life in a totalitarian state, became a favorite of
Iranian
activist
Mohammad-Ali Abtahi
soon after he was released from jail?
confraternities
, a type of
Nigerian
university
student organization started by
Nobel Prize
laureate
Wole Soyinka
, are now linked with
organized crime
?
Nobel Prize
winner
Seamus Heaney
's poem "January God" is about a
stone sculpture
called the
Boa Island
Janus figure
(pictured)
?
poet
Robert Hass
, a two-term
American Poet Laureate
, is a neighbor of
Nobel laureate
Czesław Miłosz
?
Bertrand Russell
is the
longest-lived
of any
Nobel Prize in Literature
winner?
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Ava Helen Pauling
, an
American
human rights
activist and wife of
Nobel
laureate
Linus Pauling
, was a three-time national
vice president
of the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
?
Nobel Prize
Australian
physicist
, Sir
Kerr Grant
studied with
Nobel Prize
winning
chemist
and
physicist
,
Irving Langmuir
at the
University of Göttingen
?
Nobel Laureate
George Smoot
, whose work cemented the
Big Bang
theory, made a
cameo appearance
on the
sitcom
The Big Bang Theory
in the episode
"
The Terminator Decoupling
"
?
Nobel Prize
winner
Alexander Prokhorov
, one of the founders of
laser
physics, has also described an
antiferromagnetic
transition in the organic material
DPPH
?
physical chemists
Isabella Karle
and her
Nobel Prize
-winning husband
Jerome Karle
retired in July 2009 after a combined 127 years of employment at the
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
?
British
farmer
Sir Nigel Strutt
, great-nephew of
Nobel Prize
-winning physicist
Lord Rayleigh
, declined an offer of
peerage
, as did his great-great-grandfather,
Joseph Holden Strutt
?
Ève Curie
did not receive a
Nobel Prize
, unlike her parents
Marie
and
Pierre
, her sister
Irène
, and, on behalf of
UNICEF
, her husband
Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.
?
Ava Helen Pauling
, an
American
human rights
activist and wife of
Nobel
laureate
Linus Pauling
, was a three-time national
vice president
of the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
?
Charles William Bardeen
, who took positions of national leadership in the
National Education Association
, was the grandfather of two-time
Nobel Prize
-winning physicist
John Bardeen
?
Far Rockaway High School
in
Queens
, whose alumni include three
Nobel Prize
laureates and
Bernard Madoff
, stopped accepting students in 2008 as part of a planned closure due to declining grades?
Jyotirindranath Tagore
played a major role in the flowering of the talents in his younger brother, the first Asian
Nobel Prize
winner
Rabindranath Tagore
?
Nobel Prize for Literature
Horace Engdahl
, permanent secretary of the
Swedish Academy
, said that
The Four-Gated City
is
Nobel laureate
Doris Lessing
's most important work?
Nobel Prize
-winning author
Kawabata Yasunari
was a houseguest of fellow author
Kambara Ariake
for almost two years after the end of
World War II
?
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