Before he won the prize in physiology and medicine, Lee Hartwell co-founded Rosetta Inpharmatics.
His novel was passed by the censor soon after he won the prize, but his publisher was then refused entry to this month's commercially important Riyadh book fair spurring the author to call for a boycott.
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In cases where the site lists current affiliation, I used that to locate laureates (a German-born professor working at the University of Chicago when he won the prize would thus be listed under the United States).
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He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948, and is probably best known for The Waste Land, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats - which was later became Lloyd Webber's musical, Cats.
In 1954, when he won the Nobel prize, his friend, John O'Hara, declared extravagantly that he was the most outstanding author since Shakespeare.
He won the rising star prize at the Sony Radio Academy Awards later that year.
Considered Italy's national poet, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906.
Gurdon went on to study Zoology at Cambridge, and on October 8 2012, he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
As the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for the group's work in nonproliferation and has had a long career interacting with global leaders in international capitals.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize for signing the 1993 Oslo Accords, formalizing relations with Israel and creating a nascent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
Distinguished by the Hacker Prize and the Silver Medal in Painting, he competed for the Rome Prize, which he won in 1959.
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While flying to London with Aer Lingus for the awards, Banville was plied with champagne by his former employer, and told the BBC at the 2005 awards he "wouldn't have been able to stand up" if he'd won the prize.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his campaign against apartheid in South Africa.
Mr. ElBaradei lavished praise on Mr. Obama after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in late 2009.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, for what presenters cited as decades of work seeking peaceful solutions and promoting social and economic justice.
So if Obama fails to lead the way to world peace just because he won the Nobel peace prize, no one should be surprised or disappointed.
In April this year, he won the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, which is awarded to scientists who are distinguished for the highest quality of biomedical research in Europe.
Graham previously won the Pulitzer Prize for he collection The Dream of the Unified Field in 1996.
He headed the team that won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for uncovering fraudulent practices at a fertility clinic and writing stories that led to federal indictments and the largest malpractice settlement in California history.
To his surprise he won first prize in the section for 55-year-olds and older.
Yundi Li was just 18 when he won first prize at the prestigious International Chopin Competition in Warsaw.
He even won the best director prize at the British Academy Awards.
It was known as the Duke of Edinburgh's Prize for Elegant Design when he won it in 1966 and had been renamed the Prince Philip Designers Prize by the time of his 2001 victory.
Tarantino won the original screenplay prize for Django Unchained, adding to the Oscar he won for writing Pulp Fiction in 1994.
Roosevelt, New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis, and the novelist Pearl Buck, who'd won the Nobel Prize in 1938 and whose picture he copied from the jacket of one of her bestsellers.
He won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize last year, and has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
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He won his first Pulitzer Prize at the age of 28 for a series of articles in the Washington Daily News that were judged responsible for clearing a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy from McCarthy-era allegations that he was a security risk.
For example, when President Obama won the award in 2009, he directed the award committee to pay the prize money directly to charitable organizations of his choice.
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