Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for "providing evidence that the accelerating expansion of the universe".
In 2020, Riess was made fellow of the American Astronomical Society.
Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944) is a French physicist. He won 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".
David J. Wineland
David Jeffrey Wineland (born February 24, 1944) is an American physicist. He works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics with Serge Haroche for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems". He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Mo Yan
Guan Moye (; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer.
He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel "Red Sorghum Clan". In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
Isamu Akasaki
Akasaki was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in 2009. He was also awarded the 2014 Nobel prize in Physics with Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".
Akasaki died on April 1, 2021 at his home in Nagoya, Japan from pneumonia, aged 92.
Hiroshi Amano
Shuji Nakamura
With Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he is one of the three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Patrick Modiano
Jean Patrick Modiano (; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist. He won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for "Rue des boutiques obscures".
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (Arabic: الرباعي التونسي للحوار الوطني‎, French: "Quartet du dialogue national") is a group of four civil society organizations. They focus on democracy and the constitutional settlement in Tunisia.
The quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 after a political crisis.
On 9 October 2015, the quartet was awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.
Takaaki Kajita
On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan.
William C. Campbell (scientist)
William Cecil Campbell (born 28 June 1930) is an Irish-born American biologist and parasitologist. He is known for his work in discovering a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms. He won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to discover a class of drugs called ivermectins.
Campbell worked at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research and is currently a research fellow emeritus at Drew University.
Duncan Haldane
Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane (born 14 September 1951), known as F. Duncan Haldane, is a British-born physicist. He is the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He is a co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz.
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The campaign received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons."
Peter Fenwick
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Fenwick is a senior lecturer at King's College, London. He works as a consultant at the Institute of Psychiatry.
Deathbed phenomena
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Devi Lal
Chaudhary Devi Lal (born Devi Dayal; 25 September 1915 - 6 April 2001) was an Indian politician. He served as 6th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1991 in the management of V. P. Singh and Chandra Shekhar. He is popularly known as Tau (uncle). Devi Lal came out as farmer leader from the state of Haryana. He served as the Chief Minister of Haryana first in 1977-79 and then in 1987-89.
Chaudhary Devi Lal was born in Teja Khera village of Sirsa district in present-day Haryana to Shunga Devi and Lekh Ram Sihag. Lekh Ram was a Jat of Chautala village. He owned 2750 bighas of land. Lal received education up to middle-school. His son, Om Prakash Chautala has also served as Haryana's chief minister four times.
In 1928 at the age of 16, Devi Lal participated in independence struggle event by Lala Lajpat Rai. He was a student of ""Dev Samaj Public High School Moga"" in Moga during his 10th class. At that time, he was arrested at Congress office in 1930. He quit studies and joined freedom movement. He also took wrestling lesson at an Akhara in Badal village of Punjab. He was first elected MLA in 1952.
Lal comes from a productive political period of time with his powerful family rulers of Haryana. His older brother Sahib Ram Sihag was the first politician from the family. Sahib Ram Sihag became Congress MLA from Hisar in 1938 and 1947. Lal had four sons - Partap Singh, Om Prakash Chautala, Ranjit Singh and Jagdish Chander. His eldest son, Partap Singh, was an MLA from Indian National Lok Dal in the 1960s.
Lal was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. He was involved in the struggle for India's independence from the British Raj. Both he and his elder brother, Sahib Ram, left their studies unfinished to take part in the freedom movement.
For this, he was sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment and sent to Hissar jail on 8 October 1930. He took part in the movement of 1932. He was then kept in Sadar Delhi Thana (Jail). In 1938 he was selected delegate of All-India Congress Committee. In March 1938, his elder brother was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly in a by-election on the Congress party ticket. In January 1940, Sahib Ram courted arrest as a "satyagrahi" in the presence of Lal and over ten thousand people. He was fined Rs 100 and sentenced to 9 months imprisonment.
Lal was arrested again on 5 October 1942. He then kept in jail for two years for taking part in the 1942 Quit India movement. He was released from prison in October 1943. He negotiated parole for his elder brother. In August 1944, Chhotu Ram, the then Revenue Minister, visited Chautala village. He, along with Lajpat Rai Alakhpura, made efforts to woo both Sahib Ram and Lal to desert Congress and join the Unionist Party. But both workers, being dedicated freedom fighters, refused to leave the Congress Party.
After independence, Lal emerged as a popular farmer leader in the 1950s and started a farmers' movement, for which he was arrested along with his 500 workers. After some time, then chief minister, Gopi Chand Bhargava, made an agreement and the Muzzara Act was amended. He was elected a member of the Punjab Assembly in 1952 and President of the Punjab Congress in 1956. In 1958, he was elected from Sirsa.