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Nobel Prize
A community portal about Nobel Prize with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Nobel Prizes are prizes awarded annually to people who have completed outstanding research, invented ground-breaking techniques or... [more]
A community portal about Nobel Prize with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Nobel Prizes are prizes awarded annually to people who have completed outstanding research, invented ground-breaking techniques or equipment, or made an outstanding contribution to society in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, medicine or physiology and economics. They are widely regarded as the supreme commendation in their respective subject areas. Those honored with a prize are known as Nobel Laureates.
The diplomatic row over Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and her medal continues as Norway and Iran summon each others ambassadors. Tehran has not denied taking the human rights campaigner’s medal, but its foreign ministry implied Ebadi ...
- Iran Summons Norwegian Ambassador Over Ebadi Nobel Prize Dispute (search.live.com)
- Iran 'lying' over Nobel prize medal: Ebadi (rss.news.yahoo.com)
Science Friday’s annual Ig Nobel broadcast happens today. Ira Flatow, Charles Bergquist and the rest of the Science Friday team have edited the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony into a cornucopic radio hour. Listen on NPR stations, or listen on the web. Broadcast times vary (in many US east coast cities, the broadcast begins at [...]
From improbable.com
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- Ig Nobel Prizes Salute Silly Science (npr.org)
- Japanese microbiologist claims Ig Nobel award for panda poop research (thejapannews.net)
- Ig Nobel radio broadcast this Friday (improbable.com)
Former head of Securitate claims Nobel prize-winning author 'has no contact with external reality'A former member of the Romanian secret police has launched a blistering attack on the Nobel prize winning writer Herta Müller.Radu Tinu, who has admitted to spying on Müller as head of the secret police (or Securitate) in the Romanian city of Timisoara, where the Romanian-born German-speaking writer lived until 1987, told a newspaper she was...
From guardian.co.uk
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- Müller smeared (guardian.co.uk)
As the hunger strike of Western Saharan human rights activist enters its third week, the US State Department have issued a statement expressing concern for her well being and urging " a speedy determination of her legal status and full respect for due process and human rights.”
From indymedia.org.uk
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- Philip Roth on Bad Sex Award Shortlist (mediabistro.com)
If someone contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's work on climate change, for which the organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, is this person a Nobel laureate? If not, what are they?
I ask because I know a few professors who were IPCC members and/or contributors and they tend to talk about it in their bios. Usually it's "X contributed to the IPCC's work on climate change, for which the IPCC was...
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- More Mueller on the Way (conversationalreading.com)
