Thursday, November 25, 2010

List of Nobel laureates for 2009

Peace
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said US President Barack Obama won the award for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples and for his work on nuclear non-proliferation. Congratulate Obama
Statement from Norwegian Nobel Committee

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Physiology or Medicine

US trio win Nobel Medicine Prize

US trio Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W Greider and Jack W Szostak won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering an enzyme which helps chromosomes in cells stay eternally young, the Nobel jury said.

Facts about Nobel medicine prize winners

Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak won the 2009 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology on Monday for their work on chromosomes. Here are some details about the winners:

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Literature

Mueller wins Nobel literature prize

Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born writer who produced tales of the disenfranchised and fought for free speech, has won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature. She made her debut in 1982 with a collection of short stories.

Nobel lit prize goes to little-known European

The judges, apparently, could not help themselves. Just two days after a Nobel Prize official worried the literature committee was too "Eurocentric," the winner for 2009 was Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born writer once censored in her native country.

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Physics

Kao, Boyle & Smith win '09 physics Nobel

Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for physics for work in fibre-optics and in semiconductors, the prize committee said on Tuesday.



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Chemistry

Indian-American wins Chemistry Nobel

Indian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, 57, has won this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry, the Nobel Foundation announced on Wednesday. He shares it with Thomas Steitz, an American, and Ada Yonath, an Israeli, reports Anika Gupta.

Indebted to colleagues, says Nobel laureate Venkatraman

A delighted Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan said that he was deeply indebted to his associates, students and researchers in his Cambridge-based laboratory for the path-breaking work he has conducted in the area of ribosomes.

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Economic Sciences

Ostrom, the first woman to win

American duo wins Nobel Prize for Economics

Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson of the United States won the 2009 Nobel Economics Prize for their work on the organisation of cooperation in economic governance, the Nobel jury announced today. Ostrom is the first woman to win the Economics Prize, which has been awarded since 1969.


First woman Nobel economics laureate 'surprised', 'humbled'

Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Economics Prize since it was first awarded 40 years ago, said she was humbled and surprised at

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