The larger the prize, the more eager to get it at any cost, and the more attention these races attract, the more crows are circling over the winners and losers, and the more scandals.
The larger the prize, the more eager to get it at any cost, and the more attention these races attract, the more crows are circling over the winners and losers, and the more scandals. Any prestigious award is an apple of discord, behind which there is a line of people willing to sell their souls. Beauty contests, Oscars, Nobel Prize, founded in 1895, confirm this version.
Fritz Haber "the father of chemical weapons"
Fritz Haber is one of the most controversial Nobel Prize winners. For some, he is an outstanding revolutionary scientist in industrial chemistry. For others, he is the vile killer who ran the chemical warfare program in Germany during World War I.
Born to a Jewish family in Breslau (now Wroclaw), an inventor whose main achievement is considered to be the invention of an innovative method of synthesizing ammonia gas, which is an essential component for the production of fertilizers, may have saved billions of people from hunger.
Actually, for this he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1918. But during World War I, Haber devoted his research to developing chemical weapons for the German army.
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As head of the chemistry department of the German War Ministry, he pioneered the use of chlorine in trench warfare, resulting in his middle name "the father of chemical warfare." Chlorine gas is a ruthless weapon designed to mercilessly kill enemy troops.
Driven by the breeze, the gas creeps along the ground, in order to then dive into the enemy's trench and strangle all living things. According to statistics, more than a million soldiers of the First World War died as a result of a chemical gas strike.
Peter Handke - patron saint of genocide
According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Literature Prize is awarded to the author who has produced the most significant literary work of an idealistic orientation. But if you look at the list of laureates, you will find few familiar names, even fewer your favorite names.
One can only pity the members of the Nobel Committee, who are forced to decide whose work is better. What standards can you be guided by besides your own literary taste, which readers inevitably boo.
This year, the award was given to the literary not particularly outstanding, but "politically foul smelling" like a Western scent, Peter Handke.
The Austrian playwright was accused of betraying "moral ideals", since he does not consider Milosevic guilty of genocide and does not condemn the Serb victory in Srebrenica, when in 1995 at last the united Bosnian-Serb forces brutally dealt with many Bosnian Muslims, who before that, for three whole years, the entire population of the city was brutally tortured with the blessing of the UN peacekeepers present there.
Well-known lovers of truth - Western writers and activists were outraged by the fact that the award was given to Peter Handke. Jennifer Egan, president of an organization dedicated to protecting and promoting free speech in the United States and around the world, was "shocked by the choice of a writer who used his position to distort historical truth and publicly cast his vote in defense of a genocidal criminal." …
Carey Mullis - addict astrologer
Nominated LSD and astrology lover, Carey Mullis, shared the laurels with Michael Smith in 1993 for his outstanding discoveries in DNA research. Mullis played a key role in the development of a method known as polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
This brilliant invention allows scientists to create millions of duplicate DNA molecules. PCR is considered one of the most significant breakthroughs of the 20th century, which is quite effective and cheap for detecting a wide variety of infections, but is used in everything from fossil analysis to identifying criminals.
Despite the fact that according to the sign of the horoscope Mullis is Capricorn, and they, as everyone knows, “embody pragmatism, reliability and stability. These sober analysts stand firmly on their feet and live in the real world, not indulging in baseless fantasies and illusions,”he did not develop a relationship with sobriety, and perhaps it was LSD in him that claimed that he was abducted by a luminous alien raccoon, and AIDS and HIV doesn't exist.
Antonio Egas Moniz - inventor of the lobotomy
Today lobotomy is an outdated medical practice and an attribute of horror stories about life in mental hospitals, more reminiscent of the medieval method of torture than a form of psychiatric treatment. But more recently, this procedure has been called the "basic and safe treatment" for mental illness and awarded the Nobel Prize for it.
Naturally, sticking sharp objects into the brain and groping there led to some side effects: to the loss of the patient's personality, and sometimes to the vegetative state of the healed. Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for developing a "leukotomy" (a pseudonym for an immoral procedure).
It can be considered that the receipt of the Nobel Prize legalized the procedure, and in this regard, the Nobel Committee received calls to cancel the award. But these healthy-looking citizens believe that "there is no reason to be indignant about what was done in the 1940s, because at that time there were no other alternative ways" to appease patients, which, by the way, most often became too emotional and nervous wives and sisters.
Jean-Claude Arnault - pissed-off sinister
In 2018, Jean-Claude Arnault, one of Sweden's leading cultural figures and also the husband of a committee member, faced serious charges of sexual abuse and financial fraud.
Eighteen women accused 72-year-old Arnault of sexual harassment, it also turned out that, demonstrating his heroic power, he disclosed the names of the winners of the earlier set, and besides, it turned out that the noble family funded their projects from the Nobel Foundation.
It was possible to give a prize to a cheerful old man, but instead, his wife was kicked out of the academy, and six more went after her in protest.
Alexis Carrel eugenic surgeon
Alexis Karrell was actually a remarkable biologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for his pioneering research in the field of transplantation.
Just three years later, at the height of the First World War, he developed an innovative method of treating wounds with an antiseptic, which significantly reduced the number of deaths from gangrene. But the scientist's true ideals appeared somewhat later. In 1935, Carrell published Man is the Unknown, in which he explains his support for eugenics, which calls for breeding humans like livestock, improving their hereditary traits.
He was of the opinion that women with “desirable” characteristics should breed with exclusively “desirable” men and then raise their “desirable” children.
He also believed that "unwanted" people should be discouraged from reproduction (read "sterilize") and that criminals should be "humanely and economically destroyed" in gas chambers.
Thoughts, frankly, are not new and are still very practiced among mothers attentive to their children and members of society who care about the correct distribution of taxes.
Daniel Gaidusek - pedophile infectious disease specialist
Daniel Carlton Gaidusek received the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning new mechanisms of the origin and spread of infectious diseases."
The respected doctor had a wide heart and adopted about fifty children from the Pacific Islands, brought them to the United States and personally financed their education.
However, in 1997, several inmates accused the guardian of sexual assault. Gaidusek, who lived too long among the cannibals, admitted the fact of sexual contacts, but denied their coercive nature and considered it quite acceptable and even necessary to strengthen family ties.
Aung San Suu Kyi - an apologist for ethnic cleansing
The Nobel Peace Prize is famous for the strangest laureates: Henry Kissinger, UN Peacekeeping Forces, M. Gorbachev, Barack Obama and the European Union and many others. Only one thing remains a mystery, how Mother Teresa was on a par with these worthy people. But today serious controversy has flared up around the award.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of the multi-ethnic state of Myanmar, who won the 1991 Peace Prize, has been criticized for being in 2016-2018. did not order the military elite to turn the other cheek when Islamic fanatics, famous doves of peace, decided to establish their correct order on the territory of their host state.
In response to the harmless attacks of the Rohingya militants, the peace-loving Buddhist army responded in purely Hebrew "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." The Burmese Armed Forces carried out the sweep so gently that these Islamic émigré occupiers were forced to flee to neighboring countries.
The UN is very concerned about the fate of the persecuted minority, and in disapproval has blocked the accounts of all Myanmar leaders to avoid using Facebook "to promote hatred and religious enmity."
Canada joined the boycott, and even stripped Aung San Suu Kyi from honorary citizenship. But the Nobel Committee does not change its opinion, and refuses to take the prize away from the Iron Lady.
William Shockley is an intellectual chauvinist
William Shockley revolutionized the world of technology. In 1956, an American physicist founded the first silicon semiconductor laboratory in Mountain View, California, in what is now known as Silicon Valley.
In the same year, Shockley was awarded the Nobel Prize for his role in the invention of the transistor - perhaps the most important scientific breakthrough of the last century. Anything plugged into an outlet runs on transistors, including computers and telephones. Shockley's enormous scientific influence is undeniable.
Despite his genius, he believed that white Americans were intellectually superior to the rest, was very worried that "incompetent" people reproduce too quickly, and suggested that the "genetically disadvantaged" (that is, blacks) be provided with financial incentives to agree to sterilization.
Nadezhda Vasilenko