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Oct 23, 2007 9:03 AM CDT

Nobel Laureate Downplays 9/11

Lessing: IRA violence in Ireland was worse than WTC attacks; Americans are 'naive'

(Newser) - Freshly minted Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the 9/11 terrorist assault on the World Trade Center “wasn’t that terrible” in comparison to violence wreaked by the IRA in Britain. "Some Americans will think I'm crazy," she said in an interview in Spanish daily El Pais. "...

Gore Rules Out Presidential Run

Oct 17, 2007 10:08 AM CDT

Gore Rules Out Presidential Run

(Newser) - Nobel or not, Al Gore still isn’t running for president. “I’m involved in a different kind of campaign," Gore told Norwegian TV in an interview broadcast today. "It’s a global campaign to change the way people think about the climate crisis.” Many hoped...

Nobel Hard Drive Tech Revived

Oct 15, 2007 12:29 PM CDT

Nobel Hard Drive Tech Revived

(Newser) - Hard disk space is about to quadruple, says Hitachi, thanks to this year’s Nobel Prize-winning physicists. The company today announced it had developed a new technology for passing data between the disk and the disk-reading heads which shrinks the heads and allow for disk storage of up to 4...

3 Americans Share Nobel
in Economics

Oct 15, 2007 8:06 AM CDT

3 Americans Share Nobel in Economics

Prize awarded for mechanism design theory

(Newser) - Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin, and Roger Myerson have won this year’s Nobel Prize in economics for developing "mechanism design theory," which indicates when markets are working effectively, Reuters reports. The theory can be used to assess the factors which make individuals and corporations deviate from...

Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 12, 2007 4:47 AM CDT

Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize

(Newser) - Al Gore and the International Panel on Climate Change are the joint winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee lauded Gore and the United Nations organization for their pioneering environmental advocacy, and described Gore as "probably the single individual who has done the most" to raise...

Would He, Could He, With Nobel?

Oct 11, 2007 2:15 PM CDT

Would He, Could He, With Nobel?

Groupies are hoping the Nobel could rouse Gore to presidential run

(Newser) - Groups hoping for an Al Gore presidential run are crossing their fingers for the former VP to win the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow. Supporters say the award might be more convincing than the Oscar and Emmy he has already racked up. "It's like waiting for Grateful Dead tickets to...

Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize

Oct 11, 2007 6:42 AM CDT

Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize

Feminist pioneer awarded literature's top honor

(Newser) - The Swedish Academy has awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature to Doris Lessing, the Persian-born British author whose novels stand at the center of the feminist movement. The author of such classics as The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist did not figure among pundits' predictions for this year's...

German Scores Chemistry Nobel

Oct 10, 2007 9:31 AM CDT

German Scores Chemistry Nobel

Research paved way to cleaner car emissions, explained ozone depletion

(Newser) - A German who fathered a vast field called surface chemistry—responsible for everything from cleaner car emissions to identifying ozone declines—was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for Chemistry today, his 71st birthday. Gerhard Ertl's work examined how molecules interact with solid surfaces, and has been influential in both...

Hard Drive Guys Win Nobel Prize

Oct 9, 2007 9:44 AM CDT

Hard Drive Guys Win Nobel Prize

Physics award goes to discoverers of 'giant magnetoresistance,' key to shrinking computers

(Newser) - Proving physics isn’t just theoretical black-hole gazing, this year’s Nobel Prize went to a discovery that paved the way for radically shrinking the size of computers. Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg won for uncovering “giant magnetoresistance,” the phenomenon that big electrical resistance variances can be produced...

Nobel Prize Goes to Stem Cell Trio

Oct 8, 2007 6:58 AM CDT

Nobel Prize Goes to Stem Cell Trio

Medicine award recognizes US, British pioneers in gene targeting in mice

(Newser) - The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded today to three stem-cell researchers who developed techniques for manipulating genes in mice. Mario R. Capecchi, Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies pioneered a process called gene targeting that allows specific genes to be turned on or off. This in turn allows...

Hotel Snubs Nobel Laureate

Aug 17, 2007 11:01 AM CDT

Hotel Snubs Nobel Laureate

Oooops: Five-star Cancun resort mistakes Rigoberta Menchú for beggar

(Newser) - Staff at Cancun's five-star Coral Beach Hotel had egg on their faces after trying to throw out a woman in indigenous Mayan garb, assuming she was a beggar or street vendor. Turned out the person they tried to hustle out of their lobby was Rigoberta Menchu—Nobel peace prizewinner, Unesco...

Odile Crick
Dies at 86

Jul 23, 2007 4:25 AM CDT

Odile Crick Dies at 86

Wife of Francis Crick first sketched the double helix structure of DNA

(Newser) - Odile Crick, who made the first published sketch of double-helix structure of DNA, died July 5th in La Jolla, CA, at age 86. She was the wife of Francis Crick, who together with James Watson discovered the structure of DNA. Odile Crick's drawing first appeared with her husband's...