NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2000

                                                                      Kim Dae-Jung
The 2000 Nobel Peace Prize was Kim Dae-jung. He was born on the 3rd December in 1925 and he died on 18th August in 2009. He received the Nobel peace prize for his work in Asia because he helped the South Korea to reconciliate with North Korea and he has worked for the human rights in South Korea, so he was called “ the Nelson Mandela of Asia “. He was a politician and he was the 15th President of South Korea. Kim was born in Mokpo and during the Second World War he became very rich and in 1954 he became a politician. In Seoul Kim Dae-jung was banned and imprisoned in 1976 for taking part in a manifesto of anti-government so he was sentenced under house arrest in 1978. Kim died in Seoul on 2009. The cause of his death was a multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.

                                                    Campanella Paola, 

Violante Benedetto,

Lo Piccolo Carlo IIIA

Biotechnology at University

                                                                         by S.Calò

We all (from the left Arno Melgiovanni, Silvia Calò,Giuseppe Rizzo, Paola Vivoli, Lavinia Di Prima, Alessia Pillitteri) are attending a biotechnology course at university, that will help us in orientieering if we really want to choose Biology in the next future.


We have to take part to 5 meetings of four hours each on Thursdays at 2.30 am. During these meetings we have been following lessons made up by lecturer Vittorelli and the others teaching fellows; afterwards we perform different trial proofs.



1st meeting.

When we arrived they gave us gowns and books which would have helped us following the lessons and performing the trials proofs. The lessons were about the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and others microorganisms. Then we went to the laboratories and made bacteria coltures.



2nd meeting.

This time the lessons were about P.C.R., that is a scientific technique in molecular biology to amplify a single or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence. In laboratories we also did it ourselves.



3rd meeting.

The lessons were about the gel electrophoresis, that is a technique used for the separation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), ribonucleic acid (RNA), or protein molecules using an electric field applied to a gel matrix. In laboratories we did also that one ourselves.



4th meeting.

The lessons were this time about the structure and the duplication of DNA, besides also about the leaching of human DNA. Indeed we managed to draw out our own DNA from our spit.



We haven’t done the 5th meeting jet, so we can’t tell you about that one, but we are sure that it will be as interesting as the previous ones.

Paola Vivoli and Silvia Calò 4A

Wangari Muta Maathai

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



She was born on the first of April in 1940 in Kenya. She was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, in 2004, because she contributed to the sustainable development. She was a big political competence and she is a member of the Kenyan Parliament.


She was the first woman Central Africa to graduate in the faculty of Biology. In 1976 joined the women’s National Council in Kenya and became the President of the Council. A year later she founded the Green Belt Movement to combat deforestation of the trees in Kenya. Now Wangari Muta Maathai is an environmentalist, activist and veterinary in Kenya

Lupo,Spinoso,D'Eliseo

3A LS Benedetto Croce

Mohamed ElBaradei

Mohamed ElBaradei is an Egyptian man who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, on 7 October.He was the director of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).He won the prize because  he proposed to avoid the nuclear energy to be used by extremist groups and to use it in the best possible way. With the IAEA’s winnings  he proposed to use nuclear techniques against cancer and malnutrition in developing countries. In his Nobel Speech he said that only 1% of money spent in producing nuclear weapons would  be enough to feed all the poor people all over the world.

Ugo Sortino

Jessica Galano

Martina Mangione

Nobel Peace Prize 2010: Liu Xiaobo

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 is the Chinese intellectual Liu Xiaobo.

He was born December 28, 1955 and he is a human rights activist who is little known inside China.

He was in the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989, so since that year until now, he has been in prison and labor education camp four times for his peaceful political activities.

In fact in June 1989 after the Tiananmen Square protest, Liu Xiaobo was detained in the Qincheng prison and he was released in 1999.

In 2004 when he started to write a Human Right Report of China at home, his computer, letters and documents were confiscated by the government. Liu's human rights work has received international recognition in 2007.

In 2010 he won the Nobel peace prize for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.

 Raimondi- Guarneri

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2010/

Nobel Peaces Prize in 2008

MARTTI AHTISAARI

Martti Ahtisaari is a Finnish diplomat and politician. He was born on 23 June 1937 in Viipuri, Finland. Athisaari was a UN Special Envoy at the Kosovo status process negotiations, aimed at resolving a long-running dispute in Kosovo, which declared its independence from Serbia in 2008. In October 2088, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to delete and resolve international conflicts. The Nobel statement said that Ahtisaari has played a prominent role in resolving many conflicts in Namibia, Kosovo, Colombia and Iraq, among other areas. In 1994 he was elected President of Finland until 2000.

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

Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2001, in two equal portions, to the United Nations and to its Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.
For one hundred years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to strengthen organized cooperation between states. The end of the cold war has at last made it possible for the U.N. to perform more fully the part it was originally intended to play.
Kofi Annan has devoted almost his entire working life to the U.N. As Secretary-General, he has been pre-eminent in bringing new life to the organization. While clearly underlining the U.N.'s traditional responsibility for peace and security, he has also emphasized its obligations with regard to human rights. He has risen to such new challenges as HIV/AIDS and international terrorism.

Source: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2001/press.html

Tedesco, Priano III A