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Professor Dr. Claudia Goldin – Winner of Nobel Prize 2023 for Economic Sciences – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #892 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #892 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Professor Dr. Claudia Goldin Credit: Mehmet Turgut Kirkgoz Credit: Swastik Arora News – Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel in Economics for Studying Women in the Workforce – New York Times Similar news flashed across many platforms as Professor Goldin was chosen for Nobel Prize. She is only the third woman to have won the Nobel Prize in Economics, and the first one to win it solo. Nobel Prize carries a prize amount of 11 million Swedish crowns (US$ 986,000) besides being the highest award recognizing the most valuable contributio...

Us and Ourselves – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #584 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #584. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Long time back, I met a person who had published a collection of his poetry; regular, romantic kind. The gentleman himself was on the other side of middle-age, sported a long beard and was a religious person. I was young and brash (and stupid) and asked him why he was writing poetry because he did not even look like a poet. He calmly replied that first the person had to be good; only then he would be able to do good things, be it poetry or else. I had no reply to that. Today, we use the term ‘holistic’ in many situations. We say that the hiring process should be holistic, we say professional ...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #334 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Lucila Godoy Alcayaga   ( American Spanish:  [luˈsila ɣ oˈðoj alkaˈ ʝ a ɣ a] ; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her   pseudonym   Gabriela Mistral   ( Spanish:  [ɡaˈβɾjela misˈtɾal] ), was a   Chilean   poet-diplomat ,   educator   and   humanist . In 1945 she became   the first Latin American author   to receive a   Nobel Prize in Literature , “for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world”. Some central themes in her poems are nature, bet...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #322 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . [Quote] “Maria Wislawa Anna Szymborska was born on 2 July 1923 in  Prowent , Poland (now part of  Kórnik , Poland), the second daughter [8]  of Wincenty Szymborski and Anna (née Rottermund) Szymborska. Her father was at that time the  steward  of Count  Władysław Zamoyski , a Polish patriot and  charitable   patron . After the death of Count Zamoyski in 1924, her family moved to  Toruń , and in 1931 to  Kraków , where she lived and worked until her death in early 2012. Szymborska was awarded the 1996  Nobel Prize in Literature  "for poetry that with  ironic prec...