This website, the official site of the Nobel Foundation, contains extensive information and over 7,000 documents pertaining to Nobel laureates and the Nobel Prize. The site covers all the categories for which Nobel Prizes are awarded: physics, chemistry, literature, peace, economics, and physiology or medicine. Under each category are pages devoted to Nobel laureates, articles by and about those laureates, and educational games and readings. There are lists of all the Nobel Prize winners and a photograph and biography or autobiography for each of them. The site also contains many of the laureates’ Nobel lectures. Among the scientists contained within the site are prominent nuclear physicists and chemists, including Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn, Ernest Rutherford, Hans Bethe, Frédéric Joliot, and Irène Joliot-Curie. |