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Nobel scientist who warned of thinning ozone dies
(AP) -- F. Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the Earth's ozone layer and crusaded against the use of man-made chemicals that were harming earth's atmospheric blanket, ...
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Mar 12, 2012 |
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Nobel laureates receive 2011 prizes at Stockholm ceremony
The 2011 Nobel laureates in medicine, literature, economics, physics and chemistry received their prizes from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf at a gala ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday.
Dec 11, 2011 |
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Are Nobels out of step with science?
This year's crop of Nobel prizes has sharpened a sometimes bitter debate as to whether science's top awards should each be limited to just three individuals in an era of collaborative research.
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Tiny Israel a giant in scientific research
Israel's contribution to the world of scientific research has won it a growing number of accolades, with the Jewish state turning out an impressive number of achievements relative to its size.
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Quantum physics is the focus of Nobel buzz
Three physicists whose research on entangled particles plays a key role in attempts to develop super-fast quantum computers could be in the running for the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday.
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Nobel Medicine files stolen before 2010 award: jury
The evaluation documents on IVF pioneer Robert Edwards, who won the 2010 Nobel Medicine Prize, were stolen a few months before the award was announced, the Nobel committee said Wednesday.
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Nobel winners and losers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Author Erling Norrby discusses how the Nobel Prizes for the sciences, while often awarding breakthrough efforts, also can miss pivotal findings that made a difference.
Jun 17, 2010 |
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Nobel Physics laureates undeserving, colleagues say: report
Former colleagues of two American scientists who won the 2009 Nobel physics prize say the winners, Willard Boyle and George Smith, did not deserve the award, Canada's Globe and Mail reported Tuesday.
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Swedish probe into Nobel corruption to close: prosecutor
Sweden is to close its investigation into allegations of corruption at the heart of several of the prestigious Nobel prize science committees, a prosecutor announced Friday.
Aug 07, 2009 |
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