Help us find and improve next week's Connection Finder profiles: Nobel Laureates [closed]

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Nobel Prizes were recently awarded so we're featuring Nobel Laureates, both living and deceased next week in the Connection Finder, starting with Marie Curie

We're looking for other scientific Laureates to feature with her.

Here's who we're getting started on:

Can you help with these profiles, or expand their families? Adding relatives in any direction helps with connections. Every missing relative you add will make our connections to them closer.

Who else should we feature? Do they need a profile?

All profiles we feature need a good biography and a connection to the big tree. We also want each one to have an image, and the image needs to have proper source attribution explaining why it's in the public domain or why we have the right to display it.

We can't feature everyone mentioned (we only have room for eleven per week), but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

To help us plan future themes, see the 2021 Example Profile Plans post here.

WikiTree profile: Marie Curie
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5 Answers

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The first Swedish scientist to be a Nobel Laureate was Svante Arrhenius. He's already good to go, I'd say.

by Eva Ekeblad G2G6 Pilot (573k points)
Thanks, Eva! It's nice when the profiles are in good shape already.
+6 votes

I'll have more suggestions later, I'm guessing, but my first recommendation is Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, a prominent writer, poet, & the first Norwegian Nobel laureate, who wrote the words to the norske Nasjonalsangen- Ja, vi elsker dette landet.

Everything is ready for him, though I'll add more of a biography later today.

by Thomas Koehnline G2G6 Pilot (102k points)
Thanks, Thomas! Having the bio recently updated helps so much.
+7 votes
by Mark Burch G2G6 Pilot (219k points)
edited by Mark Burch
Thanks for those, Mark! If you have time, it helps us out if they've got decent bios and sources, too.
They are all ready to go, connected with bios, pic and sources.
Awesome! I love when that happens.
+7 votes

Nobel Physicist Connections

Here's a little resource some may be interested in.  It's not pretty.  I just filled out the template for a page and made a big table.

The good news is that it has every Nobel prize winning physicist from the beginning to 2018 and columns to indicate which have profiles  and which are connected.  It is sortable by year and status.

There are probably a few errors, but I do check it occasionally.

You will find that I am profile manager for a number of these.  I'm happy to pass that status on to others.  I just wanted to make a start, and there are too many to keep up with.

by Steve Ryan G2G6 Mach 8 (82.7k points)
Thanks, Steve. If some stand out as particularly nice profiles, please share links here.

Here are some profiles I like, as good profiles but also because of the interesting science they did.  All have pictures, more than a few sentences of biography, and are connected.

Max Planck  Where would we be without ?  Atoms couldn't emit photons!

Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays.  Enough said?

Henri Becquerel found evidence of radioactivity.  Extra points for a bilingual biography.

Albert Michelson.  Not the prettiest profile, but he measured the speed of light and worked at Caltech.  Think Michelson-Morley experiment.

Guglielmo Marconi.  Radio.  Which now means radio, bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, and more.

William Lawrence Bragg.  Some sons of Nobel prize winners wither under high expectations.  This one went and got one of his own.  He worked in X-ray crystallography, exploring the structure of proteins and other complex molecules.

Niels Bohr.  Not the most exciting profile, but it's Niels Bohr.  On top of key work in atomic structure and quantum mechanics, he helped refugees from the Nazis, contributed to the Manhattan Project, and founded an institute which was a magnet for some of the greatest scientists of the age.

Werner Heisenberg.  I was uncertain about whether to include this one due to lack of a photo, but I couldn't resist the pun.  Uncertainty principle.  As of 13 Oct there is a photo.

William Shockley Jr.  Without transistors, no transistor radios.  Or integrated circuits.  Or cell phones.

In the interest of brevity my comments typically give more credit than is due.  Of course none of these discoveries were conceived, proven, and applied by just the scientist recognized.

And yes, they are all physicists.  After all, everything is physics in the end.  And physics is math, but there's no Nobel for math.  wink

+3 votes

One of my favorite authors - Sinclair Lewis 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lewis-57

by Roger Stong G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
Thanks, Roger!

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