An uncle in Canada who was doing well as a portrait photographer gave young Yousuf a job and a cheap camera of the time called a Box Brownie (with which he won a prize).
He won a Pulitzer Prize for his Middle East reporting in 1979.
" In 1992, he won a Humanitas Prize, given to work that meaningfully explores the human condition, for the TV drama "I'll Fly Away.
He won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008.
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Robert Millikan, the physicist who first measured the charge on the electron, discarded results that did not match his expectations, yet he won a Nobel prize because he was right.
He had a talent for drawing and won a prize in a newspaper competition.
D. from Princeton at 20 and in 2000 became the youngest faculty member to be appointed a full professor at UCLA. In 2006 he won both the Fields Medal, a sort of Nobel Prize for young mathematicians, and a MacArthur grant.
He won eight Grammy Awards including a lifetime achievement prize in 2004.
In fact, again, two separate inventions, and the microchip that we use now was Noyce's work as opposed to Kilby, although Kilby finally won a Nobel Prize, which he roundly deserved.
He's won the prestigious Macarthur Genius Grant and this year, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Lord Foster may have won the prestigious Pritzker architecture prize but he is not a Muslim.
This year, he won the Akutagawa, Japan's equivalent of a Booker Prize, for his debut novel about a Catholic monk in 15th-century France.
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In 1990 he and a colleague, John Krutilla, won the first Volvo environmental prize, the next best thing in his discipline to a Nobel.
Brian Cosgrove, creator of Danger Mouse and Count Duckula, told the Today programme's Sarah Montague that he was "a little bit surprised" that Paddington Bear won the prize and that one of the current shows would have been in people's minds.
He won his first Pulitzer Prize at the age of 28 for a series of articles in the Washington Daily News that were judged responsible for clearing a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy from McCarthy-era allegations that he was a security risk.
It won a prize and soon publishers approached him, asking if he wanted to turn his digital book into a paper one.
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Had he lived, his theory of collective action might well have won him a Nobel prize in economics, though not a wholly uncontroversial one.
And his Facebook page shows off a photo of him as a young man with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for making peace with Israel before he was assassinated for the historic outreach.
In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history.
He headed the team that won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for uncovering fraudulent practices at a fertility clinic and writing stories that led to federal indictments and the largest malpractice settlement in California history.
He also won the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for humour in 1999, a year after Richard Pryor.
When Robert A. Mundell won his Nobel Prize in economics in 1999, he spoke of the causes of the Great Depression in his acceptance speech.
In cases where the site lists current affiliation, I used that to locate laureates (a German-born professor working at the University of Chicago when he won the prize would thus be listed under the United States).
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He also won the Kennedy Center's second Mark Twain Prize for Humor in 1999, a year after Richard Pryor.
As the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for the group's work in nonproliferation and has had a long career interacting with global leaders in international capitals.
When Wang Shu won the prize this past February, he was in Los Angeles, about to give a lecture at UCLA. Architect Neil Denari, a professor at the school and Wang's host, was with him that afternoon.
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He won the Nobel Peace Prize for signing the 1993 Oslo Accords, formalizing relations with Israel and creating a nascent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
He was part of a team of reporters from The New York Times whose Afghanistan and Pakistan coverage won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
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