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In 1890, after he returned to London, Yeats helped form a poetry group called the Rhymers’ Club who met regularly to discuss their craft. Their input apparently helped, as Yeats won the <anchor>Nobel Prize</anchor> for Literature in 1923.
Nobel Prize Winners: Influential Winners of the Nobel Prize
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# Nobel Prize Winners

## Nobel Prize Winners

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**Marie Curie**](/scientists/marie-curie)

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**Albert Einstein**](/scientists/albert-einstein) [![chien shiung wu](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/gettyimages-515185238-copy.jpg?crop=1.00xw:1.00xh;0,0&resize=270:*)\
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**Chien-Shiung Wu**](/scientist/chien-shiung-wu) [![malala yousafzai posing for a photo at a film screening red carpet](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/malala-yousafzai-attends-the-premiere-screening-of-we-dare-news-photo-1701196199.jpg?crop=0.720xw:0.472xh;0.109xw,0.0887xh&resize=270:*)\
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**Malala Yousafzai**](/activists/malala-yousafzai)

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**Martin Luther King Jr.**](/activists/martin-luther-king-jr)

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**Henry Kissinger**](/political-figures/henry-kissinger) [![jimmy carter](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/gettyimages-646427982.jpg?crop=0.992xw:0.992xh;0.00321xw,0.00321xh&resize=360:*)\
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**Jimmy Carter**](/political-figures/jimmy-carter) [![maya angelou wearing a red dress and gesturing with her hands as she reads poetry at a podium](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/dr-maya-angelou-delivers-poetry-to-an-audience-of-tufts-news-photo-1695392503.jpg?crop=0.830xw:1.00xh;0.136xw,0&resize=360:*)\
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**10 Famous Poets Whose Enduring Works We Still Read**](/authors-writers/g45226269/famous-poets) [![stephen hawking smiles at the camera while sitting in his wheelchair in front of a green chalkboard with written equations, he wears a dark suit jacket and blue collared shirt with white pinstripes](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/professor-stephen-hawking-british-theoretical-physicist-news-photo-1695324822.jpg?crop=1.00xw:0.666xh;0,0.0967xh&resize=360:*)\
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