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Nobel Prize Winners

Nobel-Winning Physicist Dead At 75

AP | Posted 02.21.2013 | Science
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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Robert C. Richardson, a Cornell University professor who shared a Nobel Prize for a key discovery in experimental physics, has died. H...

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Build Bridges, Not Fences: Thirty Percent of U.S. Nobel Laureates Are Foreign-born

James Witte | Posted 03.13.2013 | College
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James Witte

Not all immigrants will become Nobel Prize laureates, but what are the costs if they don't achieve their highest potential? It will be our own loss, as a nation, if immigrants are denied the opportunity to develop their talents and abilities.

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Nobel Peace Prize Goes to War-Makers, While Peacemakers Are Shunned

Dan Kovalik | Posted 12.18.2012 | World
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Dan Kovalik

Deserving peacemakers may not be people you would think of because they have either been vilified or completely ignored by the Western press.

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Eat More Chocolate, Win More Nobel Prizes?

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE and KARL RITTER | Posted 01.16.2013 | Home
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-- Take this with a grain of salt, or perhaps some almonds or hazelnuts: A study ties chocolate consumption to the number of Nobel Prize winners a co...

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Nobel Physics Prize Winners May Eradicate 'My Watch Is Slow' Excuse Forever

Vanity Fair | Posted 12.09.2012 | Media
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Nobel week continues with today's distinction, Physics. Ooh, not AP Physics? Tough break. No, don't worry -- colleges will be probably definitely be impressed by run-of-the-mill physics, too!

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Is It Possible To Predict Nobel Prize Winners?

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 10.06.2012 | Science
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STOCKHOLM -- Guessing who will win a Nobel Prize is a bit like forecasting the stock market: Experts don't seem to do it any better than laymen. So i...

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Nobel Winner Facing Probe Over Alleged Tax-Exempt Status

Posted 08.03.2012 | Business
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The Bangladeshi government is going after a Nobel Prize-winning economist who has dedicated his life to eliminating poverty. Muhammad Yunus, who re...

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Only Woman To Receive Nobel Prize For Economics Dies

AP | RICK CALLAHAN | Posted 06.13.2012 | Women
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Elinor Ostrom, an Indiana University political scientist who is the only woman to have been awarded a Nobel Prize in economics, died T...

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Nobel Prize To Be Worth Less

AP | Posted 06.12.2012 | Home
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The Nobel Foundation has decided to reduce the prize money of each of the six Nobel awards by 20 percent this year to 8 million k...

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Nobel Prize Laureates Honored

Posted 12.10.2011 | World
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On Saturday, December 10, this year's Nobel Prize laureates will be honored in two ceremonies in the Swedish and Norwegian capitals. The three laureat...

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Where Are the Gay Nobel Prize Winners?

Laurence Watts | Posted 12.15.2011 | Gay Voices
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Laurence Watts

I love what I have come to call "Nobel Prize Week." For me it's up there with the Grammys and Oscars -- until, that is, the other day, when something occurred to me: I can't think of a gay Nobel Prize winner. Not even a dead one.

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Amazing Discovery Wins Nobel Prize

AP | MALCOLM RITTER and KARL RITTER | Posted 12.04.2011 | Technology
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NEW YORK — Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating p...

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Nobel Prize In Economics 2010

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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The 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Peter Diamond of MIT, Dale Mortensen of Northweste...

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Elie Wiesel, Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela

The Huffington Post | Sammy Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Orhan Pamuk, Toni Morrison, Seamus Heaney, Saul Bellow, Pablo Neruda ... all great authors honored by the Nobel Committee with a Nobel Prize in Litera...

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Want to Sleep Better? Learn to Dream Better

Sharon Glassman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Sharon Glassman

Strengthen your dreams and you'll sleep better. Sounds kinda cart-before-the-horsey, right? But frolicking in a field of dream-unicorns kicks Ambien's...

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Charles Kao, Willard Boyle And George Smith: 3 Americans Share 2009 Nobel Prize For Physics

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
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NEW YORK -- The next time you snap a digital photo and post it to Facebook, you can probably thank the three men who won the Nobel Prize in physics Tu...

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World's Best Universities (PICTURES)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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This week, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) published its 2009 list of the best 500 universities. The annual ranking, which is in its...

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Vancouver, Multicultural Gateway To The World

Sunil Chacko | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Sunil Chacko

Compassion, forgiveness and interdependence were major themes at the dialogue. The reality that despite outward differences humanity is largely the same was brought home by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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Krugman Talks About His Oval Office Meeting With Bush: "I Just Want To Know My Nickname" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Paul Krugman appeared on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" Tuesday to talk about the day's bailout news. Krugman, who recently received the Nob...

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Nobels awarded for AIDS, cancer virus research

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention in showing a viral cause for cervical cancer shared the Nobel P...

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