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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (/ ˈ p ɪ n tʃ ɒ n / PIN-chon, [1] [2] commonly / ˈ p ɪ n tʃ ən / PIN-chən; [3] born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes , including history , music , science , and ...
Jews have been awarded all six of the Nobel Foundation's awards: [3] Chemistry: 36 (19% of total) Economics: 38 (41% of total) Literature: 16 (13% of total) Peace: 9 (8% of total) Physics: 56 (25% of total) Physiology or Medicine: 59 (26% of total) Adolf von Baeyer, recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was Jewish on his mother's side ...
Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military. In particular, it features the quest undertaken by several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device ...
Nobel Prize in Literature. 1978. Signature. Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; 1904 [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] – July 24, 1991) was a Polish -born Jewish-American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator. Some of his works were adapted for the theater.
The Nobel Prize. Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to a total of 954 individuals and 27 organizations as of 2022. [1] The United States has the highest number of Nobel laureates in the world, with over 400 Nobel laureates. [2] Around 40% of all Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Americans; around 35% of them are immigrants from other ...
This is a list of notable Jewish American biologists and physicians. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans. David Baltimore, reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize (1975) [1] Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel Prize (1980) [2] Baruch Blumberg, hepatitis B virus, Nobel Prize (1976) [3] Gerty Cori, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1947 ...
Vineland is a 1990 [a] novel by Thomas Pynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan's reelection. [6] Through flashbacks by its characters, who have lived the sixties in their youth, the story accounts for the free spirit of rebellion of that decade, and describes the traits of the "fascistic Nixonian repression" and its War on Drugs that ...
The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. [4] As of 2023, the Nobel Prize in Literature had been awarded to 120 individuals. [5] 17 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize.