It was an inescapable name of the American musical horizon. As well known for his orchestral works and his melodies as for his diaries, his “diaries”, the composer Ned Rorem died on November 18 in New York, announced his publisher Boosey & Hawkes. An atypical figure in American music, Ned Rorem remained faithful to the … Read more
The Swiss astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 recounts his most recent research, related to the search for planets similar to Earth, transiting near low-mass stars, and extraterrestrial life “to try to understand ourselves” . Professor, you talk about the exoplanetary revolution, what does this revolution imply, and why is it … Read more
/ Marina San Martin Rebolloso / In 1927, the fifth Solvay Congress was held in Brussels, which brought together the most renowned personalities in the world of science at that time, since 17 of the 29 attendees received, at some point, the Nobel Prize. If you look carefully at the photograph taken at that event, … Read more
Religious leader, “apostle of non-violence”, brilliant speaker and activist against racial segregation (not to mention the existence of the Ku Klux Klan, until not long ago in the United States black people were discriminated against on buses, restaurants, parks and theaters), he was a hero of the 20th century and today he is considered a … Read more
Attendees at the closing of the exhibition “The Nobel Prizes in Chemistry of the XXI Century” Share on Facebook share on twitter Share in mail share on whatsapp In the presentation of the closing act, the president of the Almagro Athenaeum wanted to highlight the roots of science in the athenaeums in general, and in … Read more
Publie le 18 octobre 2022 Les marionnettes font partie de ces figures familières à qui le cinéma et la télévision ont souvent donné la part belle. Pinocchio, pour n’en citer qu’un, est ainsi devenu l’un des pantins les plus populaires du Septième Art grâce à l’adaptation de l’œuvre de Collodi livrée par les studios Disney … Read more
Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), the main exponent of the latin american boom of the 1960s, the writer who furthered his peculiar use of the so-called magical realism until getting the Nobel Prize in 1982, the most best seller Of all that generation of writers on that side of the Atlantic who for the first time … Read more
American economist, statistician and academic of Jewish origin and one of the main figures and referents of liberalism. He was one of the founders of the Chicago School of Economics, a neoclassical free-market school of economics. Along with John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, Friedman is considered one of the most influential economists of the … Read more
yukio mishima was a Japanese novelist, poet and playwright. Considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, he was characterized by mixing the tradition of his culture with modern aesthetics in his texts. Sex, death and political changes are some of the issues addressed by whoever was a candidate for the Nobel Prize … Read more
This elegant man, dressed to the nines, pipe smoker, taciturn and inveterate, whiskey drinker, is none other than William Faulkner. One could have said of him that he was a gentleman farmer from Mississippi, born in this State on September 25, 1897 in New Albany to be exact, and died on July 6, 1962 in … Read more