Nobel prize

Led by Queen Silvia of Sweden, 75, the Swedish royal family put on a glittering display at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm, wowing in opulent jewels and elegant ball gowns.

So many of the social life's aspects have changed for women in the years. Starting with the right for education and ending with gender equality - all of this didn't happen overnight, and many badass women had to sacrifice their personal lives for a greater cause. Women's Equality Day celebrated on August 26th in the US, commemorates the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. It was certified in 1920, despite being introduced many years earlier in…

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Three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries about the Universe.

Because that's how many there are. More would be nice.

Native land: CanadaPrize year: 2013Reason: “Master of the contemporary short story.”Sample: "He wrote his cold and sulky apologies from Beaulieu, refusing her offer to visit once her flurry was over. He had a lady staying with him, he said, whom he could not possibly present to her. This lady was in distress and needed his attention at the moment. Sonya should make her way back to Sweden, he said; she should be happy where her friends were waiting for her. Her students would have need of her…

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9 Books Worth Reading from Nobel Prize Winning authors and the April 2017 Travel the World in Books & Read the Nobels Event

Brief biographies of women who won the Nobel Prize in Literature from the most recent, to Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to win in 1909.