News tagged with prizes
Swiss solar cell inventor wins technology prize
Michael Graetzel of Switzerland has won the euro800,000 ($960,000) international Millennium Technology Prize for inventing low-cost solar cells used in renewable energy, organizers said Wednesday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Top Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold dies
Russian Vladimir Arnold, one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century, died Thursday in France just a few days short of his 73rd birthday, Russian news agencies reported.
Jun 03, 2010 |
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8 scientists share lucrative Kavli Prizes
(AP) -- Eight scientists from the U.S., Britain and Germany shared three awards worth $1 million each on Thursday for work that has helped humans explore distant corners of the universe and the tiniest particles on Earth.
Jun 03, 2010 |
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Chemists design new way to fluorescently label proteins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the 1990s, a green fluorescent protein known simply as GFP has revolutionized cell biology. Originally found in a Pacific Northwest jellyfish, GFP allows scientists to visualize proteins ...
Jun 01, 2010 |
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255 members of the National Academy of Sciences defend climate science integrity
Two hundred fifty-five members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, including 11 Nobel Prize laureates, have joined together to defend the rigor and objectivity of climate science. Their statement, "Climate Change and ...
May 06, 2010 |
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Einstein's E=mc2 on display at Shanghai Expo
Two pages of the original manuscript of Albert Einstein's famed "General Theory of Relativity" were unveiled Thursday at Shanghai's World Expo, state media reported.
May 06, 2010 |
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Worm genes KO'd
Knocking genes out of action allows researchers to learn what genes do by seeing what goes wrong without them. University of Utah biologists pioneered the field. Mario Capecchi won a Nobel Prize for developing ...
Apr 25, 2010 |
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RNA Interference Delivered Using Nanoparticles Hits Target in Human Patients
(PhysOrg.com) -- A multi-institutional team of researchers and clinicians has published the first proof that a targeted nanoparticle can traffic into tumors, deliver double-stranded small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), and turn ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 21, 2010 |
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3 finalists in prize for technology breakthroughs
(AP) -- Three European inventors who helped create illuminated wallpapers, tiny fast processors in mobile phones, and cheap, high-performance cells used in solar panels are finalists in the euro1.1 million ($1.5 million) ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 14, 2010 |
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'Nyet' to $1 million? Math genius may reject award
(AP) -- Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia - and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Religion Distinct From Human Evolutionary Genetics: Garners University Professor Ayala Templeton Prize
University Professor Francisco Ayala, UC Irvine's esteemed researcher in evolutionary genetics, ecology and a former Dominican priest was awarded the Templeton Prize 2010 for his body of work spanning decades ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Nobel Prize-winning scientist Nirenberg dies at 82
(AP) -- Marshall Nirenberg, a scientist whose work untangling fundamental genetic processes earned him a Nobel Prize, has died. He was 82.
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Loss of epigenetic regulators causes mental retardation (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Developing neurons don’t just need the right genes to guide them as they grow, they need access to the right genes at the right times. The improper functioning of one specific protein complex that normally ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 11, 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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How to spur energy storage innovations
Imagine flying all the way from coast to coast, completely guilt-free, in an airplane that doesn’t emit a single particle of greenhouse gas or air pollutants. That could happen someday, perhaps brought to ...
Dec 17, 2009 |
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