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Two Americans win Nobel economics prize
October 15, 2012 4:08 PM
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Americans Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley have the Nobel economics prize. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the two economists for "the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design." The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was the last of the 2012 Nobel... more » -
Nobel Prize winners named
October 4, 2011 8:24 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Johns Hopkins University professor says his "jaw dropped" when he learned he is sharing the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics with two others. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says Adam Riess, an astronomy professor at the university, is sharing the prize with fellow American... more » -
Empty chair left for jailed Chinese Nobel laureate
December 9, 2010 8:50 PM
OSLO, Norway (AP) When ambassadors, royalty and other VIPs take their seats in Oslo's modernist City Hall on Friday for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, there will be one chair left empty for this year's winner. Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, a democracy activist, is serving an 11-year prison sentence... more » -
Chinese dissident wins Nobel Peace Prize
October 8, 2010 8:10 AM
Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." The Nobel Committee says it has long believed that there is a close connection between human rights and peace. The award is likely to... more » -
Nobel prize missing after burglary
April 16, 2010 11:57 AM
Police in Massachusetts have caught a man they suspect of breaking into a Harvard professor's home, but they are still looking for his missing Nobel Prize medal. Police tell the Boston Herald that Stephen Beaulieu, of Skowhegan, Maine, broke into the Arlington, Mass., home of Roy Glauber (GLAW'-buhr) last... more » -
Father of 'green' revolution dies at 95
September 14, 2009 11:22 AM
Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said. He was 95. Borlaug died just before 11 p.m.... more »
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