Showing posts with label Nobel Prize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nobel Prize. Show all posts
Friday, October 5, 2018

2018 Nobel Peace Prize -- News Roundup

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Daily Mail: Nobel Peace Prize is jointly awarded to a Yazidi former ISIS sex slave turned human rights activist and a Congolese doctor ...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Should The Nobel Prize Consider Diversity, Geography, And Gender When Awarding The Prize?

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Nobel Prizes are the most prestigious awards on the planet. This year's announcements have further highlighted questions about why so...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

British University Scientists Win Nobel Prize For Physics For Discovery Of Atom-Thick Carbon Layer 200 Times Stronger Than Steel

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The Swedish academy of sciences in Stockholm announces the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics today From The Daily Mail: * Graphene cou...
Monday, October 4, 2010

British IVF Pioneer Robert Edwards Wins Nobel Prize

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Photo: Robert Edwards with the first "test tube baby" Louise Brown and her own child From The BBC: British scientist Robert Edwar...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Nobel Foundation: Why We Said No To Reform -- A Commentary

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The Nobel Foundation responds to New Scientist's call for change (Image: Oliver Morin/AFP/Getty Images) From The New Scientist: LAST ye...
Saturday, December 5, 2009

Nobel Prizes Hit By The Financial Crisis?

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Nobel Prize Foundation Frets Over Its Finances -- ABC News STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Nobel Foundation might have to reduce the money it awar...
Friday, October 9, 2009

Cambridge Laboratory of Molecular Biology: The Nobel Prize factory

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Cambridge's Laboratory of Molecular Biology From The Independent: For the 14th time, the judges have honoured a member of the same lab. ...

Nobel Prize: Ten Most Important Winners

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Professor Marie Curie working in her laboratory at the University of Paris in 1925 Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES From The Telegraph: As the 2009...
Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Nobel Prizes For Chemistry Awarded -- News Roundup

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From left, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England; Thomas A. Steitz of Yale University; a...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Nobel Prize For Physics Awarded

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Half of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics went to Charles K. Kao, center. The other half of the prize was shared by two researchers at ...
Monday, October 5, 2009

U.S. Trio Wins Medicine Nobel For Ageing Research

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The statue of Alfred Nobel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Photo AFP From Reuters: STOCKHOLM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Three Americans we...
Sunday, October 4, 2009

Experts Call For Nobel Prizes To Be Revamped

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Where's the prize for fighting climate change? (Image: Science and Society Picture Library/Getty) From New Scientist: THE Nobel prize s...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

New Nobel Prizes Are 'Unlikely'

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From The BBC: Calls from a group of eminent scientists for new Nobel prizes look unlikely to prove successful. The group had argued that the...
Thursday, October 9, 2008

Nobel Prize For Physics Announced

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( Photo From The International Herald Tribune ) From left, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Masukawa and Yoichiro Nambu. (Reuters) 2 Japanese, 1 ...

Nobel Prize For Chemistry Announced

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Martin Chalfie of Columbia University, Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and Roger Y. Tsien of UC Sa...
Monday, October 6, 2008

No Nobel For You: Top 10 Nobel Snubs

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King Carl XVI Gustaf presents the Nobel Prize at the Concert Hall in Stockholm. Photo: Hans Pettersson/The Nobel Foundation/www.imagebank.sw...

Nobel Prize For Medicine 2008

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From left, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier and Harald zur Hausen. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP; Olivier Maire/AP; Alex Grimm /Reuters )...