Nobel Laureate Gifts

Bob Dylan

"Beyond the fine starting salary, the job of a poet laureate at this corporation also carries with it an excellent medical and dental plan."

'Don't call the Nobel Committee just yet: We forgot to calibrate the instruments before the experiment...'

John Masefield.

Seamus Heaney

'Wow! Oh, wait -- It's only a Nobel consolation prize.'

Samuel Beckett

Museum of Art and Science. Monet. "Claude Monet, the father of impressionism, was a master of light. He sometimes painted in series, showing the passage of time with evolving sunlight and shadows." Einstein. "Albert Einstein won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in the dual nature of light, behaving like both a wave and a particle, and how this duality explains the photoelectric effect." I love that! Even though Einstein and Monet both worked with light, the only thing their work has

"Right here is where you lost the narrative flow."

'Yeah, but would you want to have a beer with him.'

Dante Alighieri

'I want to thank my biological and surrogate Mother, my two Dads.. .'

Ivan Bunin

Saul Bellow

"Flossie is as pleased as I am about producing this new vaccine, and we are both proud to accept the Nobel Prize."

"Has anybody seen my old friend Nelson?"

J. M. Coetzee

'Camilo José Cela'

Hermann Hesse

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

John Dryden

'Oooh watch your step, that's my Nobel Prize. I wonder how it got down there, crazy Nobel Prize.... Nobel Prize.'

Aung San Suu Kyi

'Great job, honey -- maybe next you'll win the Nobel Prize for Literature!'

'Sorry about the economy, but I never was very good at story problems.'

'I hear he won the Pulitzer for mathematics. Or was it the Emmy?'

William Golding

"Congratulations on your Pulitzer. Now, let's revisit the university's contract offer."

James Chadwick

Research Hand Signals

"I don't know what I want to do for my science project. I was thinking of trying to cure something."

"As a way of expressing our thanks, we offer this modest honorarium."

George Bernard Shaw

John Strutt

Woodrow Wilson