① What are the short stories of Nobel Prize winners
The simple life of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie
In 1895, Marie Curie and Bi When El Curie got married, there were only two chairs in the new house, one for each of them. Pierre Curie felt that there were too few chairs and suggested adding a few more to avoid having no place to sit when guests came. However, Madame Curie said: "It is good to have chairs, but guests will not leave after they sit down. In order to have more If you have time to do research, forget it."
Since 1913, Madame Curie's annual salary has increased to 40,000 francs, but she is still "stingy". Every time she comes back from abroad, she always brings back some menus from the banquet, because these menus are made of very thick and fine paper, and it is very convenient to write on the back. No wonder some people said that Madame Curie was "like a poor woman in a hurry" until her death.
Once, an American reporter was looking for Madame Curie. He walked to the door of a fisherman's house in the village and asked a woman sitting barefoot on the stone slab at the door where Madame Curie lived. When the woman raised her head, the reporter was shocked: it turned out to be Marie Curie.
Life of Toni Morrison
American female writer of novels and prose, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature.
On February 18, 1931, Morrison was born in Loren, Ohio, near Cleveland, USA. His original name was Chilo Wald. Her parents were sharecroppers in the southern state of Alabama in the United States. In order to escape poverty, they came to the small steel town of Loren. Morrison, the second of four children, was born during the Great Depression, and his father worked odd jobs to support the family. In order to help his family financially, Morrison started working at the age of 12. At the same time, he tenaciously persisted in studying and finished high school with excellent grades. In 1949, he entered Howard University in Washington, which was specifically designed for blacks. While in school, Morrison used the opportunity of summer tours to return to his hometown in the South and absorb the cultural nutrition there. After graduating from college in 1953, Morrison entered Cornell University for further study, studying the novels of Faulkner and Woolf, and received a master's degree in literature in 1955. She has since taught at the University of South Texas and Howard University. She married architect Harold Morrison and began experimenting with writing. After divorcing her husband in 1964, Morrison left Howard University and worked as an editor at Random Publishing Company in New York. After 1976, he took up a teaching position and taught black literature and novel creation at Yale University and Bard College. He is now a professor at Princeton University.
② The stories of Nobel laureates
Although there are many difficulties, according to the existing methods, we should do whatever step we can do, so that we can It may be possible to reach the next step...eventually we will be able to defeat infectious diseases. ——Koch
Fire Chief——Koch
Robert Koch was born in 1943 in the small town of Clausthal, Hannover, Germany. Life was not easy for Koch. The pressure of life forced him to stay in a remote small village to practice medicine, and the research conditions were very poor. However, Koch tenaciously adhered to his scientific beliefs and realized his scientific dreams in a simple laboratory.
Tuberculosis was an infectious disease known as the "White Plague" at the time. It was one of the diseases with the highest morbidity and mortality rates. Before Koch discovered Conjugative Bacillus, some people believed that tuberculosis was a hereditary disease, while others believed that it was tuberculosis caused by malnutrition and overwork.
On March 14, 1882, Koch announced at a physiological conference in Berlin that he had discovered Conjugative Bacteria, confirming that it was the culprit causing tuberculosis, and was recognized by the attendees. That night, the news was spread around the world by wireless telegraph, causing shock all over the world. But Koch said very modestly: "My discovery is not such a big progress."
After Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis using staining, he made detailed research on cholera. Researched and found the cholera bacteria.
He also won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Since then, he has served as the "Captain of the World's Infectious Disease Fire Brigade". He regards the eradication of all infectious diseases in the world as his goal.
③ Nobel’s story in 100 words
Nobel was a chemist, engineer, and also a famous inventor. He had 355 patented inventions in his life, among which the most famous It contains explosives.
Nobel was very thin when he was a child. When he was ten years old, he went with his mother to Bedelburg, Russia, reunited with his father, and began to receive guidance from his tutor. When he was seventeen years old, he went to the United States to study. Two years later, he returned to China and joined his father's company to engage in research.
Influenced by his father, Nobel was very interested in studying explosives. Later, he made a lot of money by manufacturing explosives and developing oil fields. However, he was very sad to see the explosives he invented used in war, so he spent his life trying to appeal to the world to use gunpowder for peace. Nobel used his huge fortune to establish a fund and issue bonuses every year to people in the world who have made outstanding contributions to physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, literature, and peace.
(3) Extended reading of Nobel’s literary story:
Nobel also liked philosophy closely related to literature. Among the famous European and American philosophers at the time, he preferred British philosophers Spencer's philosophy of positivism. In terms of philosophy, he once listed some contents and outlines of the papers he planned to write.
Nobel not only liked reading literary works, but also tried to create literary works. He wrote poems, and "A Riddle" is one of his long autobiographical poems.
④ Achievements and stories about Nobel Prize winners in literature in recent years
1. Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing Born on October 22, 1919, she is a British female writer. Her representative works include "The Grass Is Singing", "The Golden Notebook", "Special Cat", etc. She is known as the greatest female writer after Woolf and has won the Nobel Prize for Literature many times. Award nominations and multiple world-class literary awards, and finally won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.
She is the oldest female Nobel laureate to date. In addition, she is the 34th female Nobel Prize winner in history. According to the British "Guardian" and BBC, Doris Lessing, a British female writer and winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, passed away on November 17, 2013, at the age of 94. She worked as a nanny, telephone operator, office worker, stenographer and reporter.
But she never stopped reading. Doris spent almost her childhood in loneliness. In her loneliness, she formed an indissoluble bond with the literary masters of the 19th century. She didn't initially think about becoming a novelist. After the failure of her first marriage, Doris became involved in anti-racist radical political life. She remarried in 1945, but another marriage change soon followed.
The years after World War II were difficult. Lessing said she almost lived in a nightmare, and her financial situation was once in embarrassment. In 1950, Lessing's first novel "The Grass Is Singing" was published in London, which won her reputation and entered the British literary world.
2. Le Clézio
Representative writer of the French "New Fable School". The reason for awarding him the Nobel Prize in Literature is "a writer of new beginnings, poetic adventure and sensory psychedelic literature, and an explorer of human nature outside of modern civilization." His major works include "Proceedings", "Goldfish", "Wandering Stars", "Teenage Minds", "War" (award-winning work in 2008), "Urania", etc.
Le Clézio showed talent in literature from an early age. When he was only 7 years old, he wrote the novels "The Long Journey" and "The Black "Oradi" began his literary career during his one-month trip. After studying at the University of Arts and Sciences in Nice, he continued to study literature at the University of London and the University of Bristol.
While studying for a master's degree, the 23-year-old Le Clézio published his first novel "Proceedings" with the help of Claude Gallimard. He was shortlisted for the highest French literary award that year. "Goncourt" prize, and successfully won the "LeNaudeau" prize, an important French literary award, which made him famous in one fell swoop.
3. Herta Miller
A German female novelist, poet, and essayist of Romanian origin. The reason why she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature was "for her dedication to poetry and the frankness of her prose, which depicts the life of unemployed people." Representative works: "The Beast Within", "The Fox Was Already a Hunter", "Lowlands", "Today I Don't Want to Face Myself", "Breathing Swing" (award-winning work in 2009), etc.
As Herta Miller's debut novel, the short story collection "Lowlands" has an obvious autobiographical component. This book tells the story of the difficult rural life in the Swabia region of Banat. The author uses a monologue voice to tell her experience of growing up in this gray countryside, reflecting the narrow-mindedness of people's spirit and the cruelty of daily life from a child's perspective.
The novel "Today I Don't Want to Face Myself" tells the story of a young female garment factory worker. Contrary to the title of the book, the protagonist has been attending an "appointment" to interrogate himself. As the questioning continues, the protagonist's increasingly clear ideas slowly build up into a complete story. The era’s persecution of little people came to light during the questioning.
4. Mario Vargas Llosa
In recognition of Llosa's detailed depiction of the power structure and his trenchant account of individual resistance, defiance and failure. . "The City and the Dog" is Llosa's famous work and one of the four landmark novels that marked the beginning of the "literary explosion" in Latin America. His main representative works include "Green House", "Armageddon", "The City and the Dog" and "Long Talk in the Bar" (award-winning works).
In 1937, when he was more than 1 year old, he moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia, with his mother and family. In 1946, he returned to his home country of Piura Province, Peru, in Piura City, the seat of the province ***, and studied at Sallesino School He studied at the Leoncio Prado Military School in Lima from 1950 to 1952, and later completed his secondary school education at the National School of San Miguel in the Province of Piura in Piura, Peru.
Vargas Llosa served as a professor at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (appointed in 1977), the University of London in the United Kingdom (1967 and 1969), Columbia University in the United States (1975), Visiting teaching position at Harvard University in the United States (1992) and other schools.
5. Thomas Transtr?mer
Born in 1931, he published a collection of poems "17 Poems" in 1954, and successively published "Secrets on the Road" and "Halfway" There are 10 poetry collections including "The Complete Sky", "Seeing the Dark", "The Path", "For the Living and the Dead" and "Sorrowful Gondola". After suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in 1990 that left him half paralyzed, he still continued to write pure poetry.
He won the Bellman Poetry Prize in 1966, the Swedish Literature Prize in 1979, and the Literary Promotion Award in 1982. After suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in 1990 that left him half paralyzed, he still continued to write pure poetry. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011. His life path was simple. Until his retirement, he worked as a psychologist in juvenile detention centers and social welfare institutions. Traveling and writing constituted almost all of his spare time.
⑤ The main content of Nobel’s story
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Nobel source is a unique genius. He was frail and sick since childhood, but had amazing energy and perseverance; he lived in poverty in his early years, but later became a rare rich man; he had no formal academic qualifications, but became a scientist and inventor with hundreds of patents. Finally, he donated the huge wealth accumulated throughout his life to people who had made significant contributions to science, literature and peace.
This book depicts the legendary life of Nobel with rich historical materials and touching stories.