User:Wangari
The username "Wangari" honors Wangari Maathai.
2011 Announcements of Nobel Prize winners[change | change source]
- October 3 Medicine --Bruce Beutle, Jules Hoffmann, and Ralph Steinman
- October 4 Physics -- Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess
- October 5 Chemistry -- Daniel Shechtman
- October 6 Literature -- Tomas Transtomer
- October 7 Peace -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkul Karman
- October 10 Economics
List of women who are Nobel Prize winners[change | change source]
Nobel Prize in Physics[change | change source]
- Marie Curie, 1903
- Maria Goeppert Mayer, 1963
Nobel Prize in Chemistry[change | change source]
- Marie Curie, 1911
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 1964
- Irène Joliot-Curie, 1935
- Ada E. Yonath, 2009
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[change | change source]
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, 2009
- Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 2009
- Linda B. Buck, 2004
- Gerty Cori, 1947
- Gertrude B. Elion, 1988
- Carol W. Greider, 2009
- Rita Levi-Montalcini, 1986
- Barbara McClintock, 1983
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, 1995
- Rosalyn Yalow, 1977
Nobel Prize in Literature[change | change source]
- Pearl Buck, 1938
- Grazia Deledda, 1926
- Nadine Gordimer, 1991
- Elfriede Jelinek, 2004
- Selma Lagerlöf, 1909
- Doris Lessing, 2007
- Gabriela Mistral, 1945
- Toni Morrison, 1993
- Herta Müller, 2009
- Nelly Sachs, 1966
- Wislawa Szymborska, 1996
- Sigrid Undset, 1926
Nobel Peace Prize[change | change source]
- Jane Addams, 1931
- Emily Greene Balch, 1946
- Mairead Corrigan, 1976
- Shirin Ebadi, 2003
- Leymah Gbowee, 2011
- Tawakkul Karman, 2011
- Wangari Maathai, 2004
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum, 1992
- Alva Myrdal, 1982
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 2011
- Bertha von Suttner, 1905
- Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991
- Mother Teresa, 1979
- Betty Williams, 1976
- Jody Williams, 1997
Nobel Prize in Economics[change | change source]
- Elinor Ostrom, 2009
Notes[change | change source]
Other pages[change | change source]
- Basic English
- E Prime
- Wikipedia:Simple talk – discussion
- Wikipedia:Examples of simpler English
- Help:How to change pages
- Wikipedia:Aids for Writing Simple English
- Help:Translate English into Simple English
Other websites[change | change source]
- Ogden's Basic English web site
- VOA Special English official web site
- ASD Simplified Technical English
- How to use Microsoft Word to check for Basic English
- Online utility for checking Basic English text – supports Basic English and various other dictionaries
- Writing and Publishing Program: online writing courses (from Simon Fraser University in Canada)
- Wordcount, a very rough, but easy to use, guide on how often words are used.