October 24, 2009

Amazing lives. Definitely not all, but a special few. There is one name not on this list.

1901 Henry Dunant, founding the International Committee of the Red Cross
1911 Marie Curie, physics and chemistry
1921 Albert Einstein, discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect
1923 William Butler Yeats, inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation
1931 Jane Addams, Sociologist; International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
1948 T.S. Eliot, outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry
1954 Ernest Hemingway, lifetime literary achievement
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr., campaigner for civil rights
1975 Niels Bohr, fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics
1979 Mother Teresa, Leader of Missionaries of Charity
1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts
1986 Elie Wiesel, Chairman of "The President's Commission on the Holocaust"
1990 Octavio Paz, Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat
1993 Nelson Mandela, worked for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa
1998 Amartya Sen, contributions to welfare economics for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, gender inequality, and political liberalism

Ugh. And I only pointedly accuse because I voted for him. Time to earn it, my friend.