Thomas Hodgkin: Wandering Scholar - A Biography by Michael Wolfers Merlin Press £16.95, pp256 There is a moment in this biography when we learn that in 1964, Dorothy Hodgkin has been named as sole winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
Shechtman was the sole winner of the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2011, for his discovery of seemingly impossible crystal structures in metal alloys.
Liu was China's sole winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and was in prison for pieces of writing that the Communist Party considered tantamount to a rebellion.
In March, Pedro Quezada, 44, of Passaic, was the sole winner of a Powerball drawing worth about $152 million after taxes.
Mr. Krugman was the sole winner of the award this year, which includes a prize of about $1.4 million.
Robert G. Edwards, an emeritus professor at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., is the sole winner of the prize.
The cost of the outing was likely chump change to the sole winner of a $590 million lottery jackpot.
The sole winner is Anthony Quinn's Best Supporting Actor award for his portrayal of French impressionist Paul Gauguin in 1956′s Lust for Life).
Even his Nobel prize in physiology or medicine, for which he was the sole winner, didn't silence all the critics.
