Sentence examples for edvard from inspiring English sources

The country has also produced many important artists, among them composer Edvard Grieg, painter Edvard Munch, novelists Knut Hamsun and Sigrid Undset, and playwright Henrik Ibsen.

In one of his last books, a biography of the statesman Edvard Beneš (1997), he analysed the life of another Czech who was forced into exile and established a European reputation, but finally returned home to Prague.

British-US scientist John O'Keefe and married couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser from Norway have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the brain's "inner GPS".

Nobel prize season began on Monday with the announcement of the 102nd Nobel prize for physiology or medicine, to be split between University College London's John O'Keefe, and the Norwegian husband-and-wife team of Edvard and May-Britt Moser.

No one realised it would be as strikingly elegant as it turned out to be in the discoveries of Edvard and May-Brit Moser.

Melissa Van Zee, the stall keeper, told me, one of her biggest sellers is a button bearing a facsimile of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" with the words "Hillary 2008" written beneath it.

And on Monday, British-US scientist John O'Keefe and married couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser from Norway won the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the brain's "inner GPS".

British-US scientist John O'Keefe and married couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser from Norway for discovering the brain's "inner GPS".

Slavia began life, in 1892, as a rebellious intellectual debating society; one star, in his youth, was Edvard Benes, later national president and victim of the Munich sell-out in 1938.

Optimists, among them Georgia's President Edvard Shevardnadze, take a different view, believing that Mr Putin may show signs of seeking an accommodation with various parties in the Caucasus: even including, in due course, the Chechens.Yet the West is taking no chances on Mr Putin's mood, and is trying to build up Georgia and Azerbaijan to withstand the Russian squeeze.

Between them John O'Keefe of University College, London, and May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim, identified two sets of cells, in two neighbouring parts of the brain, which tell that brain where it is.Dr O'Keefe published his prize-winning work in 1971.