My brother's band shone above all other competitors and won the first prize.
In 1990 he and a colleague, John Krutilla, won the first Volvo environmental prize, the next best thing in his discipline to a Nobel.
"That Van Cliburn won the first ever Tchaikovsky Prize in Moscow in 1958, the middle of the Cold War, is testimony to his prodigious gifts, " he said.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is among those who have won the first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
At the 2011 edition of Placido Domingo's Operalia, an international contest to identify new talent, she won first prize among the women.
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In 1946 the watch won the equivalent of a timepiece Oscar--first prize in the Geneva Astronomical Observatory Timing contest.
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.
In 1973, Aimard won first prize at the Messiaen Competition, and at age 19 he was chosen by Pierre Boulez to become the first solo pianist for the influential new music group, Ensemble InterContemporain.
Sabine El Chamaa, a Lebanese director whose latest short "Un Mardi (One Tuesday)" won first prize in the short film category at the Dubai Film Festival and will be screening in the Bird's Eye line-up, agreed.
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.
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.
Banville is the first Irish winner of the Booker Prize since Roddy Doyle won with Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha in 1993.
Chinese architect Wang Shu won the prize last year - the first Chinese citizen to do so.
She became the first living UK author to receive the prize twice, having won it for its prequel Wolf Hall.
Kawase Naomi's Suzaku, which won the prize at Cannes for best first film, is quiet, sorrowful and as fragile as the story it tells.
Paulin, who won the Somerset Maugham prize in 1977 for his first collection of poetry, A State of Justice.
This is the first time a UK organisation has won this prestigious prize.
Lord's Media Center, the first all-aluminum building in the world, won a host of awards, including the Stirling Prize, Britain's most prestigious architectural prize, in 1999.
RAPHaEL -- which is part of a larger RoMeLa robot project named CHARLI -- has already won several awards, including grabbing first prize at the 2008-2009 Compressed Air and Gas Institute Innovation Award Contest.
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She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for promoting conservation, women's rights and transparent government - the first African woman to get the award.
Campion's first short film, Peel, won the short film prize at Cannes in 1986.
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Her first novel I, Coriander won the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award in 2005.
One other sure thing is that when the first prize-winner is announced in March 2014, it won't be going to Hilary Mantel, as she doesn't have a book out this year that will be eligible.
The record, which was first discussed in 2007, was due to have featured contributions from Hegarty, who won the Mercury Prize for his 2005 album I Am A Bird Now.
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