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Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize-Winner Ends His Life Through Euthanasia

AP | Posted 05.06.2013 | World
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BRUSSELS -- A Belgian university says that biochemist Christian de Duve, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1974, has died in an act...

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EU Receives Nobel Peace Prize

AP | BJOERN H. AMLAND | Posted 02.09.2013 | World
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OSLO, Norway — The EU received the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday for promoting peace and human rights in Europe following the devastation of World...

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Teaching Kids About The Nobel Prizes

Posted 10.12.2012 | Parents
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This week's Family Dinner Table Talk, from HuffPost and The Family Dinner book: This week, the 2012 Nobel Prizes were awarded. The prizes -- est...

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European Union Wins Nobel Peace Prize

AP | JULIA GRONNEVET and KARL RITTER | Posted 10.15.2012 | World
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OSLO, Norway (AP) — The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to promote peace and democracy in Europe – an award giv...

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And The Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literature Is...

AP | ALEXA OLESEN and LOUISE NORDSTROM | Posted 12.11.2012 | Books
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BEIJING — Novelist Mo Yan, this year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, is practiced in the art of challenging the status quo without offendin...

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Frenchman, American Win Nobel Prize In Physics

AP | Posted 12.09.2012 | Science
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — A French-American duo shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for inventing methods to observe the bizarre properties of the...

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PHOTOS: This Year's Nobel Prize Winners

Posted 12.10.2011 | World
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Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won this year's Nobel Prize for Economics, the Nobel Committee announced on Monday in Oslo. Sargent a...

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Who Is This Nobel Prize Frontrunner?

Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.04.2011 | Books
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While a number of American dark horses appear on potential contenders for this year's Nobel Prize For Literature list, from DeLillo to Bob Dylan, the ...

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Does Salman Rushdie Deserve A Nobel Prize?

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2011 | Books
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Anis Shivani

I don't expect for a moment for this to happen, but I believe no other writer on the face of the earth comes as close to deserving the next Nobel award for literature as Salman Rushdie.

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WATCH: Why Do Fruit Bats Have Oral Sex? Ig Nobel Prize Celebrates 20 Years Of Weird Academic Research

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 11.27.2011 | Weird News
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Scientists who make discoveries that have lasting value to humanity get awarded with Nobel prizes. That doesn't happen to those who figure out that...

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Jewish Exceptionalism -- A Response to Michael Chabon

Steven L. Pease | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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Jews have won 23 percent of all Nobel prizes, 51 percent of the Pulitzer prizes for non-fiction and 54 percent of the world chess championships. They...

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China Dissidents Top Nobel Peace Prize Speculation

AP | DOUG MELLGREN and IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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OSLO — Chinese dissidents are leading the odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre...

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Nobel Prizes 2009: A Record Year For Women

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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AP -- This year a record five women were honored by the Nobel committees. In total, only 40 women have won the prestigious prizes, including Marie Cur...

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Nobel Prize For Economics: Americans Ostrom, Williamson Win

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA, KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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WASHINGTON — One scholar studies how best to manage resources like forests, fisheries and oilfields. A fellow American looks at why some compani...

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