The Carnegie prize was founded in 1937 in memory of Scottish-born philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and was first awarded to Swallows And Amazons author Arthur Ransome for Pigeon Post.
It made Andrew Carnegie incredibly rich, permanently expanded the global economy and raised living standards.
Facebook could take the Andrew Carnegie approach and start creating public access makerspaces in libraries.
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Andrew Carnegie was operating in a ruthlessly competitive age and he was a tough employer.
Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburgh steel mogul, gave both the city and the university their library buildings!
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Pei, the stories of Isaac Asimov, the entire industries that were forged by Andrew Carnegie.
He fashioned himself as a modern-day Andrew Carnegie who used his fortune to build libraries.
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As immigrant children, Andrew Carnegie and David Sarnoff knew what it meant to miss a meal.
Names like Alexander Hamilton, Albert Einstein, Andrew Carnegie, Madeleine Albright and Sergey Brin speak for themselves.
Morgan and industrial elites like Andrew Carnegie truly built America, in its first individualist century.
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His prescient analysis attracted the attention of Andrew Carnegie, who was keen to reform medical schools.
And when Andrew Carnegie became extremely wealthy, Scotland and more specifically Dunfermline was one of the first to benefit.
In 1902, Scottish steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie established the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
Andrew Carnegie wrote prolifically about wealth and what to do with it, famously writing that the "man who dies...rich, dies disgraced".
Winterson also offered the companies in question another option - "do an Andrew Carnegie and build us new kinds of libraries".
Families, wondering whether the big-ticket schools are worth the money, should reflect on these nongraduates: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford and Bill Gates.
Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Leland Stanford, new philanthropists in Silicon Valley and elsewhere began to emerge at the turn of this century.
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Then, in 1902, after a generous gift from Andrew Carnegie, the school was able give a full-tuition scholarship to every student it admitted.
Philip Armour, for instance, was a meat packer from Chicago, Andrew Carnegie, a Pittsburgh steel man and Maximillian Fleischmann, a yeast maker from Cincinnati.
But when the namesake of this university, Andrew Carnegie -- an immigrant, by the way -- discovered new ways to mass-produce steel cheaply, everything changed.
When Andrew Carnegie was a boy this was a privately-owned estate, just a short distance from the family cottage and he was regularly turfed out by the gamekeepers.
He's written a crackling good book that examines the lives of, among others, Christopher Columbus, Andrew Carnegie and human-genome entrepreneur Craig Venter, and Hollywood's Selznick and Mayer families.
Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and the abolitionists William and Henry James.
True, Henry Clay Frick was a fellow giant of industry recently dubbed one of America's leading financiers by the New York Times and he and Andrew Carnegie had been partners once.
They include philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and engineer Lord Kelvin.
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Reviewing dozens of autobiographies of great entrepreneurs, including Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie, it seems that all had an unshakable belief in their ability to control their lives, with no excuses.
In 1905, to preserve the country's remaining stocks, a group of well-to-do East Coasters, including Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and Frederic Remington, set up the American Bison Society (buffalo and bison being one and the same).
An international celebrity in his lifetime, the Russian composer was invited by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie to conduct during the opening festival of what was then called the Music Hall (renamed Carnegie Hall in 1894) in May, 1891.
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Although some of the individuals Buffett contacted were at first hesitant about making a formal announcement, he emphasized the importance of setting an example to future generations by pointing to the legacies of Andrew Carnegie and John D.
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