The classic horror novel Frankenstein was published in 1818 and written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, an author who also happened to be the wife of the poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Who is the author of the classic horror novel Frankenstein?

First awarded in 1958, Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation in the Philippines, presents Magsaysay Medals (Awards) for outstanding contributions in government service, public service, community leadership, journalism, literature and creative communication arts, peace and international understanding and emergent leadership.

Which country gives Magsaysay awards?

In 1903, Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie, a Polish born and naturalized-French physicist and chemist became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.

She is also the first and only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields, the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice and sharing the prize with Pierre Curie, her husband, and with physicist Henri Becquerel, she and Pierre were also the first married couple to win the Nobel Prize.

The shared 1903 Nobel Prize was in Physics, for developing the theory of “radioactivity”— a word she coined.  Then in 1911, Madame Curie (as she was also known) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of two elements Polonium (named after her native country) and Radium. During World War I she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals and she later founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw – centers of scientific research.

Marie Curie died on July 4, 1934, from aplastic anemia, the result of her exposure to the radiation she had devoted her life to researching.

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

* The award committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences initially intended to honor only two men, but Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler, who was a member of the committee and an advocate for women scientists, stimulated a complaint at the omission of the woman’s equal contributions and the woman’s name was added to the nomination, leading to the award of the Nobel Prize.

Although the word ‘critical’ had already been used in medicine to denote a very serious or acute state of a patient’s health, many scholars believe it first shows up in print as a term expressing disapproval or adverse judgments, in Act 2, Scene 1 of Othello, the Moor of Venice, a tragedy in five acts written by William Shakespeare. In that scene, Iago says to Desdemona:  “O gentle lady, do not put me to’t; For I am nothing, if not critical.”  Although Othello is believed to have been written by Shakespeare sometime in 1603–1604, it was first published in 1622.

Some scholars attribute the invention of many words to Shakespeare (see, for example,  The LitCharts Blog) and it was not uncommon for authors to invent words. However, it was also not unusual to find that words used in everyday language at the time, might first find there way into recorded literature through some famous author and sometimes in imaginative ways – poetic license, perhaps!