Were both Derek Walcott and Carson McCullers Nobel Prize winners?
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Carson McCullers Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the U.S. South. Her other novels have similar themes and most are set in the deep South.
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Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex from 2010 to 2013. His works include the Homeric epic poem "Omeros" (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play "Dream on Monkey Mountain", a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, the Queen's Medal for Poetry, the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry "White Egrets" and the Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015.
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George Lennox Barrow George Lennox Barrow (1921 -1989) was a colonial administrator, Irish historian, philosopher, geographer, archaeologist, economist and writer. In the 1970s his name was circulated in the media as academician.
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Ruth Jury Scott Ruth Jury Scott (27 March 1909 – 18 June 2003) was a lifelong environmental activist, naturalist, and conservationist. Scott was a close friend and colleague to Rachel Carson due to their shared passion for educating others about the environment as well as the deadly effects of chemical pesticides. She later served on the executive committee of the Rachel Carson Trust for the Living Environment, Inc.
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John Cockcroft Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967) was a British physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
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Walter Scott Prize The Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction is a British literary award founded in 2010. At £25,000, it is one of the largest literary awards in the UK. The award was created by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, whose ancestors were closely linked to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott, who is generally considered the originator of historical fiction with the novel "Waverley" in 1814.
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Conn Nugent Conn Nugent (born September 13, 1946) is President of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, a Washington think-tank. He oversees programs in ecosystem management, carbon pricing, and environmental health. Nugent's career has been devoted primarily to non-profit organizations, most notably International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize when he was its executive director.
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Theodore W. Richards House The Theodore W. Richards House is a National Historic Landmark at 15 Follen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1900, it was the home until his death of Theodore William Richards (1868-1928), the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Richards was a leading experimental chemist of his day, measuring (as precisely as instruments of the day permitted) the atomic weights of a large number of elements. He was also responsible for the growth of Harvard University's graduate chemistry program to one of the finest in the nation. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
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Derek B. Miller Derek B. Miller is an American novelist, academic and international affairs specialist.
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Derek Wheatley Derek Wheatley QC was an English barrister and legal advisor. He is now a novelist.
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Derek S. Pugh Derek Salman Pugh (31 August 1930 - 29 January 2015) was a British psychologist, business theorist and Emeritus Professor of International Management at the Open University, known for his work in the field of organisational development (OD), and particularly the Pugh Matrix, a tool within OD.
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Derek Abbott Derek Abbott (born 3 May 1960, in South Kensington, London, UK) is a physicist and electronic engineer.
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Alan Munro (immunologist) Alan James Munro (born 19 February 1937) is a British immunologist and entrepreneur.
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Escott Reid Escott Graves Meredith Reid, CC (January 21, 1905 – September 28, 1999), was a Canadian diplomat who helped shape the United Nations and NATO, author, international public servant and academic administrator.
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Derek Brewer (cricketer) Derek Michael Brewer (born 1958) is the Secretary and Chief Executive of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Following Keith Bradshaw's unexpected resignation, he was appointed as his successor at the end of 2011.
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Derek McCamlie Derek McCamlie (born in Edinburgh, UK) is an English former actor who starred generally on stage but has also been in TV parts as well most famously being for a National Lottery advert with Amanda Holden.
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Edward Baugh Edward Alston Cecil Baugh (born 10 January 1936) is a Jamaican poet and scholar, recognised as an authority on the work of Derek Walcott, whose "Selected Poems" (2007) Baugh edited.
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Stratford Caldecott Stratford Caldecott (November 26, 1953 - July 17, 2014) was an author, editor, publisher, and blogger. His work spanned subjects diverse as literature, education, theology, apologetics, economics, environmental stewardship, sacred geometry, art, culture, and more. Books include "Radiance of Being," "Beauty for Truth's Sake," "All Things Made New," and "Not as the World Gives." He was a founding editor for the online journal "Humanum" and a contributor for several online and print journals in addition to maintaining his own blogs.
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Ronald Alan Waldron Ronald Alan Waldron born 9 January 1927 is an English medievalist, considered a pre-eminent expert in the field of early English literature. He wrote many books and was a lecturer at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and King's College London. He made an especial focus on the poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight".
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Richard Willstätter Richard Martin Willstätter, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'ForMemRS', '4': "} (13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet.
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Mary Carruthers Mary J. Carruthers (born January 15, 1941) is the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature and Professor of English, emerita, at New York University. She also teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi.
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Theodore William Richards Theodore William Richards (January 31, 1868 – April 2, 1928) was the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, earning the award "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements."