Work in groups

Now we know many interesting facts from Alfred Nobel’s life. And you can have a great opportunity to find out: how his Fund works nowadays.

Find the information from the Internet Resources about:

The foundation of the Nobel Prize Fund (the date, the place, some other facts);

The facts about the first Nobel Prize Winners (the name of the winners, the nationality, the year, and the fields of their activity);

About our compatriots (Jhores Alferov, Boris Pasternak, Lev Landau, Joseph Brodsky) and other Nobel Prize Winners in physics, literature, etc.(the name, the year, fields of activity, their family, some extraordinary facts from their life);

About the Nobel Prize Winners in 2007 in different fields of sciences (the name of the winners, the nationality, and the fields of their activity) and retell this interesting information to your groupmates.

Recommended resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhores_Alferov

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2007/index.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2007/evans-lecture.html

http://nobelprize.org/

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2007/index.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2007/

http://nobelprize.org/prize_announcements/economics/eco_questions_07.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Landau