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The Secret To Genius? It Might Be More Chocolate
October 11, 2012 A cardiologist has some fun plotting how a country's chocolate consumption may predict Nobel prizes. The outlier, he notes, is that Sweden, the home of the Nobel, seems to get more than its share of the prizes.
The Two-Way
Chemistry Nobel Goes To Scientists Who Studied Body's Receptors
October 10, 2012 Because about half of all drugs act on the receptors that let humans sense their environment, the scientists' work has been incredibly important for the development of pharmaceuticals.
All Tech Considered
To This Agency, There's Only One Way To Operate: Precisely
October 9, 2012 David Wineland of the National Institute of Standards and Technology is one of this year's two Nobel physics winners. NIST is the federal agency known for keeping accurate time using the atomic clock, and Wineland's Nobel has implications for even more accurate time-keeping. But what else does NIST do?
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French And American Scientists Share Physics Nobel
October 9, 2012 Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the United States have been honored for their work on the interaction between life and matter — in particular, the "fundamental interactions between light particles and matter."
Planet Money
Nobel Laureate: 'I've Been Wrong So Often, I Don't Find It Extraordinary At All'
May 8, 2012 "I'm 101 at the moment," Ronald Coase told me. "I get older by the minute."
The Two-Way
Three Share Peace Nobel For Women's Rights Work
October 7, 2011 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Roberta Gbowee and Yemeni protest leader Tawakkul Karman are being honored.
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Literature Nobel Goes To Swedish Poet Tomas Transtromer
October 6, 2011 His work "gives us fresh access to reality," the Nobel committee says. The surrealist poet has also spent a career as a psychiatrist working with institutionalized children.
13.7: Cosmos And Culture
Accelerating Universes, Nobel Prizes And A Revolution In Cosmology
October 4, 2011 Nobody expected the result. Nobody knew what to do with it. It came as a complete surprise. It sent cosmologists back to their blackboards, rethinking the structure of the universe and its history. Now the work has earned a Nobel Prize.
The Two-Way
Nobel Laureate Who Died Will Still Be Honored
October 3, 2011 The prizes aren't normally given posthumously. But the committee didn't know that scientist Ralph Steinman had passed away.
The Two-Way
Three Share Nobel Chemistry Prize
October 6, 2010 Nobel Chemistry prize winner; NATO tanker trucks burned; Yemeni attacks;
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British Infertility Researcher Robert Edwards Wins Nobel Prize
October 4, 2010 Nobel Medicine Prize; Supreme Court opens; tankers attacked in Pakistan; Verizon Wireless to offer some refunds
The Two-Way
Storm Kills Five, Drenches East Coast
October 1, 2010 Remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole drench east coast; insurgents attack tanker trucks in Pakistan; Nobel Prize laureates to be announced next week.
