Pylimitics

Simplicity rearranged

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They’ll just say anything at all

RFK Jr.:
“There’s 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don’t produce science, they don’t win the Nobel Prize, they don’t win the Fields prize, they don’t win the Wolf Prize, they don’t produce literature,”

Nobel Prizes

Mohamed ElBaradei, Peace, 2005
Ahmed Zewail, Chemistry, 1999
Naguib Mahfouz, Literature, 1988
Anwar Sadat, Peace, 1978
Peter Brian Medawar, Physiology or Medicine, 1960
Elias James Corey, Chemistry, 1990
Moungi Bawendi, born in France, Chemistry, 2023
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, Peace, 2015
Yasser Arafat, Born in Cairo, Egypt, Peace, 1994
Tawakkol Karman, Peace, 2011
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Literature, 2021

Fields Medal winners (Fields medal is awarded once every 4 years. and you have to be younger than 40)

Maryam Mirzakhani, 2014
Michael Atiyah, 1966

Wolf Prize (similar to Nobel prizes, given in several categories)

Ahmed Zewail, 1993
Omar Yaghi, 2018

Literature

Naguib Mahfouz
Kahlil Gibran
Ghassan Kanafani
Ali Ahmad Said Esber (Adonis)
Zoulfa Katouh
honestly, this particular list is practically endless.

List of prizes won by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.:



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