Product Description: IF YOU COULD ASK A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ANYTHING YOU WANTED...Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has honored the world's great geniuses in the most important fields: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics, and world peace. What if children could ask these creative thinkers about some of life's most intriguing mysteries, such as "Why can't I live on french fries?" and "What is love?" The answers from the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, Desmond Tutu, and seventeen other Nobel Prize laureates are rich with surprise, humor, and of course, wisdom...read more

Product Description: Among the women celebrated in this book are Baroness Bertha von Suttner, one of the first activists in the modern peace movement, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, who worked in the 1970s to bring peace to Northern Ireland, and Mother Teresa, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979...read more

A biography of the woman who used her understanding of chemistry to help develop medicines and who devoted her life to helping others.

Product Description: An introduction by Jimmy Carter, winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace PrizeA Junior Library Guild Selection Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has honored the world's greatest geniuses in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics, and world peace...read more

A biography of the wealthy woman who realized her ambition to live and work among the poor and founded Hull House, one of the first social settlement houses in the United States.

Biography of the African-American statesman and diplomat who was one of the founders of the United Nations and who received the Nobel Prize for his peacemaking efforts. (view table of contents)

Describes the life and career of Godfrey Hounsfield, the engineer who codeveloped computerized axial tomography (CAT), and shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine.

Describes the life and accomplishments of the African American statesman who was instrumental in the founding of the United Nations and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. (view table of contents)

Describes some of the major medical discoveries, such as the cure for tuberculosis and the cause of malaria, made by researchers who were eventually awarded the Nobel prize for medicine

Discusses the personal and professional life of the statesman and diplomat who was one of the founders of the United Nations and who received the Nobel Prize for his peacemaking efforts.

Tells the stories of the men and women--from Dr. Martin Luther King and Lech Walesa to Andrei Sakharov--who won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work

Looks at past prize winners, and surveys the current year's awards in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics

Looks at past prize winners, and surveys the current year's awards in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics

Product Description: The Nobel Prize Winners: Chemistry [Hardcover]

Discusses eight inventions or discoveries (X ray, radio, EKG, phase contrast microscope, transistor, radiocarbon dating, laser, and CT scan) which brought the Nobel prize to their developers

Describes some of the major medical discoveries, such as the cure for tuberculosis and the cause of malaria, made by researchers who were eventually awarded the Nobel prize for medicine

Brief, informative biographies of eight women who have been awarded Nobel Prizes for literature, chemistry, physics, physiology and medicine, and peace document their courage, leadership, achievement, and commitment to excellence

Recounts the activities, in behalf of peace and international, humanitarian cooperation, of the fifty-eight individuals and twelve organizations awarded the Nobel Peace Prize