News tagged with prizes
Carbon atom pioneers share Nobel chemistry prize (Update 4)
Three scientists shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for forging a toolkit to manipulate carbon atoms, paving the way for new drugs to fight cancer and for revolutionary plastics.
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Nobel prize winner was 'B student': university
Konstantin Novoselov, the Russian-born physicist who shared this year's Nobel prize, struggled with physics as a student and was awarded a handful of B grades, his university said Wednesday. ...
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Molecules are motifs in nanosymphony
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University composer Anthony Brandt has compressed an entire evening at the symphony into a six-minute opus -- a "nanosymphony" -- as part of Rice University's Year of Nano celebration. The River Oaks ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Nobel prize win exposes Russia's brain drain losses (Update)
The award of the Nobel prize Tuesday to two Russian-born physicists based abroad cheered Russia but also showed up its losses from a calamitous brain drain since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Wonder carbon pioneers win Nobel Physics Prize (Update 4)
Two Russian-born scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, won the 2010 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering work on graphene, touted as the wonder material of the 21st century.
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Vatican: Nobel to IVF pioneer raises questions
(AP) -- The Vatican's top bioethics official said Robert Edwards, who received the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for developing in vitro fertilization, opened "a new and important chapter in the field of hum ...
Oct 04, 2010 |
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In vitro UK pioneer Edwards wins medicine Nobel (Update 4)
The Nobel Prize in medicine went to a man whose work led to the first test tube baby, an achievement that helped bring 4 million infants into the world and raised challenging new questions about human reproduction.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Stem cell pioneer mentioned for Nobel Prize
(AP) -- A Japanese researcher who discovered how to make stem cells from ordinary skin cells and avoid the ethical quandaries of making them from human eggs could be a candidate for the medicine award when ...
Oct 03, 2010 |
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Obscenity, whale snot take top honors at Ig Nobels
A British scientist has proven what most people already know - letting fly with a few choice obscenities when you hurt yourself actually makes you feel better.
Oct 01, 2010 |
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Predictions of upcoming winners for Nobel Prize in physics
The announcement of the winners of the next Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday morning will bring to an end the very private deliberations within the Swedish Academy, which selects the winner. It will also ...
Oct 01, 2010 |
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'Narrow' Nobel Prize categories stir debate
The Nobel Prize categories have basically remained unchanged for more than a hundred years and some critics are calling for them to be expanded to better reflect the modern world.
Oct 01, 2010 |
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Unread correspondence of Francis Crick: New twists in double helix discovery story are uncovered
The story of the double helix's discovery has a few new twists. A new primary source -- a never-before-read stack of letters to and from Francis Crick, and other historical materials dating from the years 1950-76 -- has ...
Sep 29, 2010 |
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IBM breakthrough captures high speed measurements of individual atoms
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week IBM researchers published a breakthrough technique in the peer-reviewed journal Science that measures how long a single atom can hold information, and giving scientists the abilit ...
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Antonio Damasio wins Honda Prize
The Honda Foundation of Japan has announced that its annual Honda Prize, one of the most important international awards for scientific achievement, will go to Antonio Damasio, the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 21, 2010 |
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3 ultra-efficient cars win $10M innovation award (w/ Video)
(AP) -- An ultralight, gas-powered car that can get 102 miles per gallon is among the winners of the $10 million Automotive X Prize, a contest to develop highly efficient, production-ready vehicles.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 16, 2010 |
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