Minted in France in 1807, the front of the medal shows the laureate head of Emperor Napoleon and, on the reverse, an eagle clutching a thunderbolt, part of the emperor's imperial seal. Brice Stump
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Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, has denied all of the charges against her, while the United Nations and many other international organizations have demanded her freedom.BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022 The great Nigerian Wole Soyinka, a Nobel laureate in literature, has also been criticized for writing in English. Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 Divas hosted debauched salons on them, and a Nobel laureate wrote a novel on one.New York Times, 29 June 2022 Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who turned 77 on Sunday, has been charged with at least 20 criminal offenses since she was toppled in a coup early last year, including multiple counts of corruption. Reuters, CNN, 22 June 2022 The company’s board of directors includes former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, former Senator Bob Kerrey, former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, and Nobel laureate Francis Arnold. Matthew Herper, STAT, 11 Sep. 2021 In January, Biden named chemistry Nobel laureate Frances Arnold and MIT astrophysicist Maria Zuber as co-chairs of the panel. Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 3 June 2021 On August 10th, seventy-one economists, including the Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, wrote to President Biden and the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, urging them to immediately allow the Afghan central bank to reclaim all of its reserves. Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2022 For years now, economists like Nobel laureate Paul Krugman worried China might fall into a Japan-like funk. William Pesek, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
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Two poets laureate—Alyssa Gaines and Daniel B. Summerhill—turn their thoughtful attention to fashionable objects—while Robert Wrigley imagines the top-of-the-world elation of being in a treehouse.WSJ, 3 June 2022 This monthlong series continues and includes an afternoon of outdoor readings by poets laureate from cities across SoCal, curated by Pomona’s own poet laureate, David Judah Oliver.Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022 Scientists have been modeling infectious-disease outbreaks since at least the early 1900s, when the Nobel laureate Ronald Ross used mosquito-reproduction rates and parasite-incubation periods to predict the spread of malaria.New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021 The contributors range from former and current poets laureate to truck drivers and students. Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2021 Mojgani, named state poet laureate in 2020, was among 23 state and city poets laureate who received the fellowships, funded by the Academy of American Poets with support from the Mellon Foundation.oregonlive, 16 June 2021 The academy is awarding a total of $1.1 million to 23 poets laureate around the country for public projects like Hamilton's, plus more than $100,000 in support for nonprofit organizations like Woodland Pattern who are assisting the laureates. Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2021 What's the collective noun for a bunch of poets laureate in one place together? Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2020 The gala concert featured Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and his predecessors, conductor laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen and conductor emeritus Zubin Mehta. Matt Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020 See More
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Middle English, crowned with laurel as a distinction, from Latin laureatus, from laurea laurel wreath, from feminine of laureus of laurel, from laurus