Today, Donegal's William C. Campbell became the 11th Irish Nobel laureate, receiving the Medicine prize for roundworm research, but can you name the previous ten? Six are one-marker answers, but the other four may take a while to remember.
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I know nothing about the sciences.
Literature - I assume Yeats, Joyce and Beckett.
Peace - Didn't Hume and Trimble share one? And Bono, he must have got one by now. -
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That's four of the six obvious answers off the list, Rog.Comment
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Surely St Bob of the Ethiopians is more deserving than that arsehole?Rogin the Armchair Fan wrote: I know nothing about the sciences.
Literature - I assume Yeats, Joyce and Beckett.
Peace - Didn't Hume and Trimble share one? And Bonio, he must have got one by now.Comment
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Presumably GBS is the other obvious one.
I think Sean MacBride might be another?Comment
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CR has one of the more difficult Peace winners, but one famous rhymester still going a-begging.Comment
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Oh of course, Heaney.Comment
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Maguire and WilliamsComment
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Only one left, and I'll narrow it down to Physics.Comment
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OK, he was one Ernest Walton, who won in 1951 for atomic research - to be honest, most Irish haven't heard of him either.Comment
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I had heard of him but didn't realise he was IrishComment
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