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In March 1965, civil rights activists organised three marches from S...elma to Montgomery, the state capital of Alabama. The second one, led by Martin Luther King Jr., took place on #OnThisDay in 1965. It was named "Turnaround Tuesday".
The first march a few days earlier had been met with violence from the state and county police. On the evening of March 9, an activist, minister James Reeb from Boston, was beaten and killed by a group of civilians. The killing and the violence a few days earlier, later named "Bloody Sunday", led to a national outcry. In August the same year, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, partly because of the marches in Selma. The year before, Martin Luther King Jr. had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent struggle against racism. See More
In 1998 Walter Kohn, a physicist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Che...mistry "for his development of the density-functional theory." It led to a potentially tricky encounter:
"The day after I received the Prize of course it was quite a sensation in my little town in Santa Barbara, so I walked across the Campus and two students... are walking in the opposite direction, and they must have seen my picture somewhere, perhaps in the student newspaper, and so one of them turns around and comes back and says to me “Are you the guy who won the Nobel Prize?” and I said “Yes, I am” and so they both gave me a very friendly hug and then they kept going again, but then one came back again and said “Do you mind, we are just going to a chemistry exam, can we ask you a question?”
So yes I was in a very tight spot! So I said “well try me” and I started praying very hard because I knew that the more elementary the questions would be the less likely that I could answer them! And so then this one young woman began to ask a question and then I recognised an interesting fact. You see my … the fact that I got the Nobel Prize in Chemistry reflects the fact that at a certain theoretic level chemistry and physics are very close to each other, but also at the lowest level they’re very close to each other... So the question they had for me was in fact a physics question. So I gave them a brilliant answer! They were very impressed."
See the full interview with Kohn: https://bit.ly/2Vnvtk6 See More
Inspiring words from Leymah Gbowee.
Since 1989, bloody civil wars ...had ravaged Liberia. Leymah Gbowee brought together women from different ethnic and religious groups in the fight for peace.
She led a delegation of Liberian women to Ghana to put pressure on the warring factions during the peace-talk process. This played a decisive role in ending the civil war, and in 2011, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. See More
