Tuesday,
November 11, 2008
Italian Nobel Prize Winners
The
ANNOTICO Report
Since
1901 there have been 21 Italian and Italian Americans that have won the
prestigious Nobel Prize award, which is given annually to people for their
achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace and economics.
Italian Nobel Prize
Winners
Italians R Us
by Anthony Parente
The Nobel Prize
is an international award given annually to people for their achievements in
physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize was as
a result of Alfred Nobel
The first Nobel
Prize was given in 1901 five years after his death. Winners of this award are
announced every year in October. During a formal ceremony on December 10, which
is the day that Alfred Nobel passed away, they receive a diploma, gold medal
and a sum of money. The prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine and literature
are awarded in
In 1969 the Sveriges Riksbank (The Bank of
Sweden) award the first prize in the field of economics.
Since the field of economics was not included in Nobel
Those 21 Italian
and Italian Americans that have won this prestigious award are:
In Physics :Guglielmo Marconi
(1909) ,Enrico Fermi (1938), Emilio Gino Segre
(1959),Carlo Rubbia (1984), William D. Philips (1997), Riccardo Giaconni (2002),
Literature: Giosue Carducci (1906), Grazia Deledda (1926), Luigi Pirandello (1934), Salvatore
Quasimodo (1959), Eugenio Montale (1975), Dario Fo ( 1997),
Chemistry: Giulio Natta (1963); Peace: Ernesto Teodoro Monet
(1907);
Medicine: Camillio Golgi (1906), Daniel Bovet (1957), Salvador E. Luria (1969), Renatto Dulbecco
(1975), Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986), Mario R. Capecchi (2007)
Economics: Franco Modigliani (1985)
To see the
specific contribution of each Prize Winner, go to the following web site:
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