He had a talent for drawing and won a prize in a newspaper competition.
As the documentary unfolds, we learn of the frustrations and limitations the eight felt under William Shockley, who invented the transistor and won a Nobel Prize for his work.
At first, Mayer says, Abramson was excited, because Raines, who had once worked in the Washington bureau and served as the chief political correspondent, and who had won a Pulitzer Prize, was a proponent of deeper political coverage and aggressive investigative reporting.
"My parents and teachers recognised I was something special, " says Tulsi, who won a prize and a personal computer donated by Bihar's chief minister in 1996.
Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's classic A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park - a satire about race and class - won a Tony and an Olivier earlier this year, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama last year.
It won a prize and soon publishers approached him, asking if he wanted to turn his digital book into a paper one.
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It became a best seller, and its author, Douglas Hofstadter, won a Pulitzer Prize.
Coward corresponded with a wide range of 20th-century figures, including Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia, the Queen Mother and Harold Pinter, a British playwright who won the Nobel prize for literature in 2005 and who was 30 years younger than Coward.
The missing link between EADS, which is better known for making planes, helicopters and aerospace systems, and Carpentier--who won a Lasker Prize last year for his work on prosthetic heart valves--is largely due to the late Jean-Luc Lagardere.
In April 2012, it won a prestigious sustainable tourism prize from the World Travel and Tourism Councils, following a similar Best Destination award from Responsible Travel in 2011.
Writers and artist colonies like Yaddo in upstate New York hope that peaceful natural surroundings and stimulating company will work magic, and they may have: Yaddo alumni have collectively won 61 Pulitzer Prizes, 56 National Book Awards and a Nobel Prize in literature.
There's "virtual" millions to be won or lost, and even a cash prize for the winner.
Mr. Hemingway's story of the struggle between a weather-beaten Cuban fisherman and a giant marlin won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
The editor of the Pecos Independent and Enterprise, Oscar Griffin, won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for being the first to report on Mr. Estes's shady practices.
In 1990 he and a colleague, John Krutilla, won the first Volvo environmental prize, the next best thing in his discipline to a Nobel.
An uncle in Canada who was doing well as a portrait photographer gave young Yousuf a job and a cheap camera of the time called a Box Brownie (with which he won a prize).
Mohsen's wife Marzieh Mashkini also makes films and her The Day I Became A Woman won a prize at the Toronto Film Festival.
Mr. Laub, who didn't disclose any potential acquisitions from Tribeca, singled out a few documentaries for attracting strong interest from his colleagues, including "Don't Stop Believin'" and two titles that focus on social issues: "Burn, " an audience award-winner about Detroit fire fighters, and "Revisionaries, " which won a special jury prize for its close-up on the ideological battles dividing the State Board of Education in Texas.
Bill Clinton's vice president, Al Gore, was a true policy partner, won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election and later picked up a Nobel Prize.
This is the third time in a row -- and the fifth time in six years -- that the prize has been won by a baker in the 18th arrondissement.
"Frontline" producers Martin Smith and Michael Kirk won the prize for documentary television reporting for a piece looking at the global economic crisis.
In 1993, Kary Mullis won a Nobel Prize for discovering PCR, and several widespread efforts, including the Human Genome Project, have used the science to compile their databases.
The late John W. Trimmer's earnest guide to maritime safety, "How to Avoid Huge Ships, " won a prize for oddest title of 1992 and is now out of print.
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In the space of two weeks in January, A Morning Stroll was nominated for both a Bafta and an Oscar - and won the Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
His return thwarted, Mr Zelaya met Hillary Clinton, America's secretary of state, and agreed to mediation by Mr Arias, who won a Nobel prize for his peacemaking efforts in Central America in the 1980s.
Also last year, Assange won the 2011 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, and a Norwegian parliamentarian nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
An Israeli film entitled Sweet Mud which explores the relationship between a young boy and his mentally ill mother won the World Cinema prize.
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Despite losing the bout, Prof Peter Stead, co-author of Wales and Its Boxers, said that night Farr finally won a much more valuable prize - the love of his nation.
Buchanan won the Nobel Prize in 1986 and was, among other things, a path-breaking intellectual entrepreneur and an inspiration for generations of scholars.
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