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Nobel winner helped spark kidney donor revolutionFor Alvin Roth, joint winner of the 2012 Nobel prize for economics, studying the economy is about finding real-life solutions for real-life questions and never more so than in a revolutionary new system to match kidney donors w More… |
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Sims, Sargent win 2011 economics NobelAmericans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims shared the 2011 Nobel prize in economics on Monday for providing ways to understand the impacts of policy changes or shocks like surging oil prices on output, inflation or employment. Sims, fro More… |
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Crystal work wins Chemistry NobelAn Israeli scientist whose work was once ridiculed for being out of line with received thinking won the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for discovering different ways in which atoms could be packed together in solid materials. More… |
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Americans, British-Cypriot win 2010 economics NobelA British-Cypriot and two Americans, including one nominated by US President Barack Obama to the Federal Reserve board, won the 2010 economics Nobel on Monday for work helping explain unemployment and job markets. The work honoured is high More… |
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'Wonder carbon' duo win NobelTwo Russian-born scientists shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics for showing how a form of carbon behaved, a discovery with profound implications from quantum physics to consumer electronics. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the U More… |
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Nobel first: Woman economist wins prizeA US professor who showed how users could successfully manage common property became the first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics on Monday, sharing it with an American expert on conflict resolution. Elinor Ostrom defied convention More… |
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Finland ex-president wins Nobel peace prizeFinland's former president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for a long career of peace mediation work including a 2005 accord between Indonesia and rebels in its Aceh province. The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose Ahtisa More… |
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Green jellyfish protein scientists win NobelTwo Americans and a Japanese researcher won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a glowing jellyfish protein that makes cells, tissues and even organs light up -- a tool used by thousands of researchers around the world. More… |
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Two Japanese, American win physics NobelTwo Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for discoveries in sub-atomic particles, the prize committee said. The Nobel committee lauded Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born American citizen, and Mako More… |
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Nobel for Aids pioneers, cancer researcherTwo French scientists who discovered the Aids virus and a German who found the virus that causes cervical cancer were awarded the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology on Monday. Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for A More… |
