Nobel prizes for Romanians

1. Nobel prizes for Romanians Castranova Secondary School PAUN Mihai VIIth class

2. Romania Herta Müller*, Literature, 2009 Elie Wiesel*, Peace, 1986 George E. Palade*, Physiology or Medicine, 1974 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_country#Romania

4. George Emil Palade(Romanian: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒeeˈmilpaˈlade]; November 19, 1912 – October 8, 2008) was a Romaniancell biologist. He was described as "the most influential cell biologist ever",[2] in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, together with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. The prize was granted for his innovations in electron microscopy and cell fractionation which together laid the foundations of modern molecular cell biology.,[2] the most notable discovery being the ribosomesof the endoplasmic reticulum – which he first described in 1955.

5. Palade also received the U.S. National Medal of Science in Biological Sciences for "pioneering discoveries of a host of fundamental, highly organized structures in living cells" in 1986, and was previously elected a Member of the US National Academy of Science in 1961.

7. Eliezer "Elie" WieselKBE (/ˈɛlivɨˈzɛl/; born September 30, 1928)[1] is a Romanian-born[2]Jewish-American[1] professor and political activist. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, andBuchenwald concentration camps.[3] Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner Journal.

8. When Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind," stating that through his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps", as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace", Wiesel had delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity.[4]

10. HertaMüller(born 17 August 1953) is a German-Romanian novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania, her native language is German. Since the early 1990s she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.[1][2]Müller is noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of Communist Romania under the repressive NicolaeCeaușescu regime which she has experienced herself. Many of her works are told from the viewpoint of the German minority in Romania and are also a depiction of the modern history of the Germans in the Banat, and Transylvania. Her much acclaimed 2009 novel The Hunger Angel (Atemschaukel) portrays the deportation of Romania's German minority to StalinistSoviet Gulags during the Soviet occupation of Romania for use as German forced labor.

11. Müller has received more than twenty awards to date, including the Kleist Prize (1994), the Aristeion Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1998) and the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award (2009). On 8 October 2009, the Swedish Academyannounced that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing her as a woman "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed".[3]

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