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Lise Meitner helped discover nuclear fission but never won a Nobel Prize for her brilliance despite 49 nominations
Lise Meitner discovered how the process of nuclear fission works but she never won a Nobel Prize an…
Adam Barnes
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Ever wondered why women get a raw deal at work? Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin has all the answers
Winning a Nobel Memorial prize in Economics is an extraordinary feat in itself but Claudia Goldin’s…
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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 'unusual' candidate who discovered that modern humans and Neanderthals had children together
Svante Pääbo's discovery of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA help us unpack what makes our own genes h…
Hilary Brueck
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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize w…
Jenny McGrath
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David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian jointly win Nobel Medicine Prize for the discovery of receptors for temperature and touch
The Nobel laureates' discoveries have unlocked one of the secrets of nature by explaining the mo…
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Orgasms are as effective as medicine at treating a blocked and snotty nose, according to an award-winning study
Researchers won an Ig Nobel Prize for their research into how good sex may affect nasal breathing a…
Andrea Michelson
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Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M Rice jointly win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus
The Nobel Prize week has kicked off amid the coronavirus pandemic with the first of the awards go…
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3 scientists have won the Nobel Prize for discovering the virus that causes hepatitis C
The 2020 honor went to 2 American scientists and a British scientist. Their discoveries paved the w…
Julia Naftulin
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Nobel prize winner Svante Paabo's DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human
In other words, Paabo has been awarded the prestigious prize for having sequenced the genomes of…
PTI
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Former Fed boss Ben Bernanke wins Nobel Prize in economics with 2 others for their work on financial crises
Bernanke will share the prize with two other economists who have shown shown "why avoiding bank col…
George Glover
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Three US-based economists win Nobel prize for Economics
Card's studies of core questions for society and Angrist and Imbens' methodological contribu…
PTI
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 goes to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering ‘the darkest secrets of the universe’
The Nobel Prize in Physics this year will be split between three laureates. One half goes to Roger …
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An Indigenous patrol in the Amazon won a 'Green Nobel' after they took gold miners operating on their land to court — and won
The Cofán's Indigenous patrol hunts for signs of trespassing gold miners, and has ultimately put th…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Nobel Prize 2020 in Economics goes to Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wils…
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World Food Programme wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian organization that promotes food s…
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American poet Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
Glück was born 1943 in New York and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a pr…
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 – Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna win the prestigious award for genome editing
The winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry are Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna…
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How the researchers who won the Nobel Prize in medicine transformed the way we treat cancer
Even so, the Cancer Research Institute stuck with it, and eventually in 2011, the first immunothera…
Lydia Ramsey
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LIVE: The Nobel Foundation Announces The Prize In Medicine
Thomson Reuters has predicted that Physiologist David Julius, who discovered why we feel both pain …
Dina Spector
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China says the Wuhan virus lab deserves a Nobel Prize. Meanwhile the US is trying to figure out whether it leaked the coronavirus.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian dismissed the theory that the coronavirus was made a…