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3 days ago · Communications Staff. Oberlin Professor of Mathematics Jeff Witmer won the 2024 Chauvenet Prize, presented by the Mathematical Association of America for an exceptional expository article on a topic related to math. Witmer was honored for his paper “Simpson’s Paradox, Visual Displays, and Causal Diagrams,” which was published in the ...
May 23, 2024 · Chauvenet Prize. Euler Book Prize. Daniel Solow Author's Award. Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards. Henry L. Alder Awards. More information on the award and how to submit a nomination. News Date: Thursday, May 23, 2024. Category: MAA.
2 days ago · Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. Awards and honours that she received include: Nobel Prize in Physics (1903, with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel)
1 day ago · Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.) was a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
- Albert Einstein was a famous physicist. His research spanned from quantum mechanics to theories about gravity and motion. After publishing some gro...
- Albert Einstein is best known for his equation E = mc2, which states that energy and mass (matter) are the same thing, just in different forms. He...
- Albert Einstein had a massive influence on contemporary physics. His theory of relativity shifted contemporary understanding of space completely. A...
- Albert Einstein was raised in a secular Jewish family and had one sister, Maja, who was two years younger than him. In 1903 Einstein married Milena...
- After suffering an abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture several days before, Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, at age 76.
- In December 1926 Albert Einstein wrote to Max Born that “[t]he theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One...
4 days ago · Nobel Prize, any of the prizes (five in number until 1969, when a sixth was added) that are awarded annually from a fund bequeathed for that purpose by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · Seven laureates have received more than one prize; of the seven, the International Committee of the Red Cross has received the Nobel Peace Prize three times, more than any other. UNHCR has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize twice.
2 days ago · Claudia Sheinbaum, the former head of the government of Mexico City and candidate for the ruling Morena party, is projected to be the country’s first female president.
