Nobel Prize Winner

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One of the works of French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, was published by the University of Chicago Press and translated by an employee of the Press. ...

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Gordon Brown's rescue plan was hailed worldwide. But perhaps the most notable endorsement came from Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize for economics on Monday. ...

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk --- 9 days ago
A French scientist awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering the Aids virus has predicted there would be a 'therapeutic vaccine' for the disease within four years. ...

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George Palade, 95, who won a Nobel Prize in 1974 for his work isolating and identifying cell structure and helped create one of the leading cell-biology programs in the nation at the University of California, San Diego, died Tuesday in San Diego. ...

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During the October 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh mischaracterized the accomplishments of Muhammad Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Limbaugh stated that Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank Project , received the Prize "[b]ecause he came up with a way to offer loans to poor people who couldn't pay them back." According to the Grameen Bank website, Yunus started the Grameen Bank Project in 1976 to "examine the possibility of designing a credit delivery system to provide banking services targeted at the rural poor." The project was transformed into a formal bank in 1983 and, according to the bank's website, has since distributed $7.28 billion in microloans to people in poverty in Yunus' home country of Bangladesh. Contrary to Limbaugh's claim, the bank's monthly report for August 2008 shows a repayment rate of 98.08 percent . Limbaugh went on to talk about former President Jimmy Carter, who was awarded the Peace Prize in 2002, saying, "He was one of the worst presidents -- the worst in my lifetime -- and one of the worst in American history. He got a Nobel Peace Prize, too. Look at the Peace Prize winners and look at how they screw up." Carter received the Peace Price "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." From the October 10 broadcast of ...

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WASHINGTON, DC – Under Secretary for Science Orbach congratulates Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien for co-winning the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for transforming a green fluorescent protein from jellyfish into one of the most important tools of molecular biology that researchers now use to watch such previously invisible processes as the development of nerve cells in the brain or how cancer cells are formed. ...

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The Royal Swedish Academy  of Sciences has named Marine Biological Laboratory scientist Osamu Shimomura co-Winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.. The brightly glowing green fluorescent protein, GFP, was first observed in the beautiful jellyfish Aequorea victoria in 1962. Since then, this protein has become one of the most important tools used in contemporary bioscience. With the aid of GFP, researchers have developed ways to watch processes that were previously invisible, such as the development of nerve cells in the brain or how cancer cells spread. Shimomura first isolated GFP from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, which drifts with the currents off the west coast of North America. He discovered that this protein glowed bright green under ultraviolet light. The initial discovery of GFP and a series of important developments have led to its use as a tagging tool in bioscience. By using DNA technology, researchers can now connect GFP to other interesting, but otherwise invisible, proteins. This glowing marker allows them to watch the movements, positions and interactions of the tagged proteins. Researchers can also follow the fate of various cells with the help of GFP: nerve cell damage during Alzheimer’s disease or how insulin-producing beta cells are created in the pancreas of a growing embryo. In one spectacular experiment, researchers succeeded in ...

Source: www.mywire.com --- 14 days ago
The US writer and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, who turns 80 on Tuesday, Sept. 30, has campaigned worldwide to keep alive the memory of the Holocaust's 6 million dead -- not as a look backward into history, rather as a lesson for the future. (The full text of this article is available free) ...

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Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Harald zur Hausen is one of the upcoming lecturers at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario. ...

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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his work on conflict resolution. Ahtisaari, 71, was in the international limelight when he organised and hosted talks between Indonesia’s government and the Free Aceh Movement, who signed a peace deal in August 2005 to end 30 years of armed [...] ...

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2008 Nobel Prize Winner in economics Princeton University professor Krugman smiles while speaking at a news conference in Princeton. Photo/REUTERS ...

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solating and identifying cell structure and helped create one of the leading cell biology programs in the nation at the University of California, San Diego, has died. He was 95. Palade died Tuesday, t... ...