In view of the tragic events in Paris I tried to find a French connection.
All I could find was two Frenchmen who shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1912.
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All I could find was two Frenchmen who shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1912.
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| Sweden - Nobel Prize winners |
Victor Grignard and Paul Sabatier shared the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for different work that greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry.
In 1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan from Denmark shared the Literature Prize, Gjellerup for his poetry and Pontoppidan for his descriptions of everyday life in Denmark.
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States was commemorated in 2006 on a set of stamps which show his versatility.
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| USA - Benjamin Franklin |
To me he will always be the man who invented the lightning conductor (rod).
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