Where are the Nobel Prize Winners' Statues, Walks, Monuments, Memorials and Museums? From Australia to the USA, worldwide.

Shimon Perez of Israel.

Menachem Begin of Israel.

Monument in Israel to Israeli Nobel Prize winners. The sign reads in Hebrew then English: The Nobel Prize Laureates Boulevard 

Rishon Le-Zion 

The bald Gustav Hertz. Won the Nobel Prize in 1925.

Einstein.

Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel prize winner, investigator of the cause of the failure of Challenger.

Ernst Boris Chain, Discovered penicillin cured diseases.

Nobel prize winner Niels Bohr.

 As usual I am researching and writing several books. My latest two are Jewish Quotations and Quotations About Authors and Writing. following up on these will be Quoations for Christians, Muslims, Humanists, Agnostics and atheists. And all religions and none.

Whilst researching the Jewish Quotations (Disraeli, Einstein, Anne Frank) I had plenty to keep me busy with American Jewish writers, American Jews - then finally I thought of looking at Jewish Nobel Prize winners.

Of course, that led me to Nobel prize winners' Sayings.

Where are the Nobel Prize winners commemorated?

Australia

Nobel Peace Walk Wagga, Wagga

France

Caen Peace Museum, Normandy, includes a section on Nobel prize winners and peace.

Bust of Rene Cassin, who wrote the universal declaration of human rights for the UN, Nobel peace prize in 1958, memorial in Forbach, France. Photo by Christian Bohr.

Rene Cassin in Forbach, France.

Rene Cassin on a coin

A rather handsome bust of the man, Rene Cassin.

Marie Curie and Rene Cassin both lived in Paris, France.

Israel

 - Rishon LeZion - a street of raised markers

Macedonia

Monument to Mother Teresa in Struga.

Norway

Poland -

 Statue of Marie Curie

South Africa 

V and A waterfront, Cape town. Statues of the four South African winners. Nelson Mandela. Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Sweden

Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm.

Alfred Nobel grave with obelisk.

Switzerland

Henri Dunant is honored in Geneva and elsewhere in Switzerland, where he founded the Red Cross. The Red Cross also has Nobel awards and statues.

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva.

UK

Peace Museum, Bradford

Ukraine

Nobel Economic monument - glove shaped.

USA

Nobel monument, New York, inscribed the names of American winners.

Pearl Buck Birthplace museum in West Virgina and Pearl Buck House Museum in Pennsylvania.

National Civil Rights Museum, Tennessee, USA. Honours Martin Luther King Jnr, where he was killed.

Kellogg Museum in Minnesota.

 Then I found that the Jewish Nobel prize winners are honoured in a street in Israel. I thought, I can list those, later statues of Nobel prize winners, Jewish or otherwise.

The street is in Rishon LeZion, about five miles south of Tel Aviv. What I liked about Tel Aviv was the Bauhaus architecture, like art deco, as well as the sandy beach and several major museums, hotels at all prices including budget ones, a factory tour to a diamond factory, and old Jaffa.

But I missed out on Rishon LeZion.

I have been to Israel several times, staying in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and homes of friends and family. (I have also been to Jordan on a press trip, and to Morocco on my honeymoon and to Tunisia on package holidays.)

Next time I shall go to Rishon LeZion. In addition to the Nobel Prize winners' memorials, it has interesting landmarks.

More monuments, memorials and museums to see worldwide, in the USA, Theodore Roosevelt,  and Moscow.

Useful Websites

Nobel Monuments Worldwide

http://peace.maripo.com/p_nobel.htm

Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishon_LeZion

Jewish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates

Rene Cassin

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ReneCassin.JPG

About the Author

Angela spent her childhood and university years living in Edgware, North West London, England, surrounded by known Jews. In addition, years later she learned she was nearby to ones she never met, such as Anne Frank's father who was living around the corner, understandably incognito.

French words of the day - ricochet, maquette, statuette

French words of the day - maquette, after a maquette of Ted Hughes, and ricochet. The word ricochet came up in a wonderful quotation from Ted Hughes' wife, American poet, the late Sylvia Plath, wife of the late Ted Hughes. His mini statue has just been placed in his honour in a pub in Yorkshire, north England. (See my previous post.)

Words ending in et from from the French are pronounced ay.
The feminine ending e t t e is pronounced et rhyming with yet.
Here are some words ending with et or  e t t e . I have to insert spaces because the spell checker automatically converts the word into tête . Ironically I cannot find the word tete but up it pops automatically when I type e t t e ! Just press on the e key on the keyboard of your computer or laptop and hold it down and you get the choice of accents.

Glossary French-English
ballet - Dance of men and women, traditional wearing tights, ladies in a tutu
ballet shoes - Flat soft shoes with rounded toes, often with a bow on the tow on the edge which meets the exposed foot. Flexible underneath so dangers can bend the foot to stand on tiptoe when pirouetting.
bouquet - bunch of flowers
maquette - scale model
matinée - Early afternoon starting performance on stage, theatre, musical, ballet, from the word morning which is matin.
pirouette - lady dancer spinning around on one toe with the other leg raised and bent with the toe against the knee, usually wearing a tutu
ricochet - rebound
soiree - evening get together, from s o i r for night (spaces inserted because spell check thinks the word should be sour)
statuette - small statue (usually of a person, sometimes an animal)
tutu - a very short circular skirt which is or becomes horizontal like a disc around the female dancer's waist, most often white stiffened net or fabric, with or without supporting petticoats


I deserve a bouquet for my explanation of words such as ricochet, or maybe a trip to the ballet, a matinée.
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