Nobel Prize

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Carl Bosch (Karl Bosch), German chemist, c1930s. In 1910 Bosch and Fritz Haber patented the Haber-Bosch process for the industrial production of ammonia. Bosch shared 1931 Nobel prize for chemistry with Friedrich Bergius. Obverse of commemorative medal

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Chinese author Gao Xingjian, 2008, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000.

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American author Toni Morrison, 2009. (Nobel Prize for Literature 1993)

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Commemorative medal of Nobel Prize winner, Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals

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