Day 9: Result and Answers

The winner of the Day 9 set of VisualZ is Udaya Satapathy from XIMB
Congratulations Udaya!!!!

Day 9: Answers

Pic 1: Jean Paul Sartre – French Exintentialist philosopher, playwright, and Novelist, he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1964, which he refused to accept. Best known for his philosophical treatise “Being and Nothingness” , novel “Nausea” , plays “no exit”, “Trojan Women” among others. He was known for his outspoken political views. He supported Algerian independence from France,supported opposed the French and American involvement in Vietnam. In response to calls for Sartre’s arrest for exhorting French troops in Algeria to desert, President Charles de Gaulle is believed to have commented “One does not arrest Voltaire”. He had a long running relationship with philosopher Simone du Beauvoir.

Pic 2: Enrico Fermi – Italian Physicist, credited to be the first person first demonstrate that controlled fission reaction is possible. He won the Nobel prize for Physics in 1938 for his works on Nuclear science. He defected to the US in 1938, because of the anti semitic laws effected by Benito Mussolini’s regime. (His wife was Jewish). During the second world war, he was involved in the Manhattan project, the US effort to build an Atomic bomb. An artificial element that was discovered from the debris after Operation Ivy, a series of nuclear tests by America, was named Fermium in his honour.

Pic 3: Ivan Pavlov: Best known for his experiments concerning conditioned reflexes, he was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine/physiology for his pioneering works on the physiology of the digestive system.

Pic 4: Richard Feynman : American Physicist, best known for his “Feynman lectures on physics”, and his semiautobiographical accounts “Surely you’re joking Mr.Feynman” and “What do you care what other people think”. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956, for his role in the development in the theory of quantum electrodynamics. He developed a widely used pictorial representation of the mathematical expressions governing behaviour of subatomic particles, which later came to be known as the Feynman diagrams. He was one person who did not confirm to the stereotypical images of scientists- he was also known as a juggler, prankster, amateur magician, amateur painter and a bongo player.

Pic 5: Rigoberta Menchu- Guatemalan activist for human rights and the rights of the indigenous people, she was once exiled by the Guatemalan military for her political affiliations. Her book “Me Llamo Rigoberta Menchu Y Asi Nacio Conciena” translated as “I, Rigoberta Menchu” , became famous as a portrayal of a little known, dying culture and an un-official account of the internal conflicts of Guatemala. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, subsequent to which she was allowed to return to Guatemala. She also contested in the Presidential elections in 2007, but could draw only 3% of popular vote.

Pic 6: Marie Curie – Polish-born French chemist and physicist, she won the Nobel prize twice – one in Physics and One in Chemistry, she is best known for her investigations of radioactivity with her husband Pierre Curie. The Curies shared the Nobel prize for Physics in 1903 and Marie Curie won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1911. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Her Daughter Irene-Joliot Curie and son-in Law Fredric Joliot Curie, are also Nobel Laureates. She has an element Curium named after her and Pierre. She was the subject of a film “Madame Curie” and was portrayed by Greer Carson.

Pic 7: Gerry Adams - President of the Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, he is credited with having played an important role in helping to end the civil war in Northern Ireland through the Good Friday Agreement.

Pic 8: James Watson - Best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, along with Francis Crick, he was the co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prizein Physiology or Medicine. He was appointed as the director of the Human Genome project at the National Institute of Health. He was particularly known for making a statement linking race and intelligence.

Pic 9: Joseph Stiglitz – A former chief economist of the World Bank, and an economic advisor to Bill Clinton , he today is known as one of the outspoken critics of the world economic order and institutions such as IMF, World Bank and WTO. He won the Nobel Prize in economics in the year 2001. He is well known for his books “Stability with Growth: Macroeconomic, Liberalization and Development”, “Globalization and its Discontents”, “Making Globalization Work”, “Wither Socialism” among others.

Background Pic: Pablo Neruda – Born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basualto , he is better known by his nom-de-plume , Pablo Naruda. First recognized for his “Twenty love poems and a song of despair”, he later came to be better known for his poetry laced with political overtones, influenced by his involvement in the Spanish Civil War and the Chilean Communist movement . He is said to have withdrawn his presidential nomination in favour of Salvador Allende . After Salvador Allende’s assassination and the Military Coup by Augusto Pinochet, Neruda’s funeral became the first major precession against the military rule.

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