At this site read about Mother Teresa (1910-1997 CE), the 1979 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the charitable works through which she helped the poor of Calcutta. This website includes texts of original documents and speeches, a biography, and an article entitled "Heroines of Peace: The Nine Nobel Women."

Use this site to learn about the 1983 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Lech Walesa, through primary and secondary resources as well as video clips.

This Nobel E-Museum website on the winner of the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize, "Kim Dae-jung," is organized into the following sections: "Press Release," "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel Lecture," "Video," and "Nobel Diploma." Read about Dae-jung's life and accomplishments and view the Video of Dae-jung at the Centennial Symposia in December 2001.

The official website for the Nobel Museum. Their award for the Peace Prize 2002 went to Jimmy Carter. Website contains a biography, Nobel lecture, and prize award photo.

Article from the Nobel Peace Prize organization that discusses the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has figured in the Nobel Peace Prize four times.

Read this detailed Nobel E-Museum biography which includes information on the scientific world of Joseph John Thomson, which gained world-wide recognition and earned Thomson the Nobel Prize in Physics.

The Nobel Foundation provides this site about Niels Bohr's contributions to the world of physics, specifically his "investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them." This biography includes information on his education and personal life, as well.

A video preview of Star Stories. Star Stories focuses on the advances in cosmology and astrophysics that have won Nobel Prizes and brought us more understanding of the stars. [1:06]

Read about Elie Weisel, the author of "Night," and the recipient of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. This Nobel e-Museum website includes a biography and video clips.

This website, part of the Nobel e-Museum discussing Nobel Prize winners, provides a biography and discussion of Faulkner's contribution to literature. Here, you can read the Prize "Presentation Speech" made by Gustaf Hellstrom as well as Faulkner's "Acceptance Speech." Also included are links to "Other Resources" for further reading and research.

This website from the Nobel e-Museum provides information on the 1950 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell (1872-1970 CE), an author who was honored for his "varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought."

Read about the 1958 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960 CE), a writer who was honored for "his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition."

This site from The Nobel Foundation features a presentation of Sartre, the only recipient in the history who declined the Nobel Prize. Features biography and press release.

Learn about the 1978 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer. This website is organized into the following sections: "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel Lecture," "Nobel Diploma," and "Other Resources."

At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This website is organized into the following sections: "Press Release," "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel Lecture," and "Other Resources."

This the Nobel Foundation page on Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988. You'll find bibliographic information, his Nobel speech, and articles written about him.

This website from the Nobel e-Museum provides infromation on Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska. The site is organized into the following sections: "Press Release," "Biography," "Nobel Lecture," Selected Poems," and "Nobel Diploma."

Explore the life and writing of Gunter Grass -- the recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature -- through this multimedia website, which provides video clips, primary texts, images, and resources.

The Nobel E Museum provides biographical information on Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist and discoverer of the exclusion principle.

At this site read about Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937 CE), the scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances." This website includes both primary and secondary texts as well as resources for further reading and research.