Nobel Prizes Pillows

James Chadwick

Max Planck

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

Professor Wiles grows insufferable.

"Eureka! Details to follow."

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

Seamus Heaney

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

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

W. B. Yeats

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

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

Ivan Bunin

Saul Bellow

"First, I'd like to thank the Academy."

J. M. Coetzee

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"It was just that one time that you won the Nobel Prize, wasn't it, dear?"

Research Hand Signals

Aung San Suu Kyi

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

'Since a couple of physicists won our Nobel Prize, we ought to go out there and win the biology.'

As a home-schooled student, Renee found it tougher and tougher to muster any genuine surprise.

'You're excited about winning a traveling toothbrush kit in a sweepstakes after spending $300 on postage and entering 1,500 contests?'

Instant winner trash can

William Golding

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

'I didn't get re-elected, but I won an Emmy for my campaign promises!'

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

'So you didn't win the Nobel Prize, but aren't you happy of one of your former students did?'

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

Woodrow Wilson

'Frank and I won a Clydesdale horse farm.'

El Baradei

George Bernard Shaw