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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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Nobel Prize 2009
The 2009 Nobel prize in Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physics and Physiology or Medicine and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel as well as the Ig-Nobel Prizes have been announced!
While you're here, why not also read about past winners. N.B. The time of the announcement is given in Stockholm time (Central European Time); subtract 6 hours to get the US Eastern Daylight Time). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Monday, October 12, 2009 (13: 00 CEST at the earliest) Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Elinor Ostrom for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons and Oliver E. Williamson for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Friday, October 9, 2009 (11: 00 a.m. CEST) Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute And the prizes go to... Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009 Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the prize goes to... Herta Müller who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Venkatraman Ramakrishnan , Thomas A. Steitz , and Ada E. Yonath or studies of the structure and function of the ribosome. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prizes go to... Charles K. Kao for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication and Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Monday, October 5, 2009 (11:30 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute And the prizes go to... Elizabeth H. Blackburn , Carol W. Greider , and Jack W. Szostak for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. visit www.nobelprizes.com, www.nobelprizes.org Last edited by Princess Royal; Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:50 AM. 
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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 Elinor Ostrom (born August 7, 1933) is an American political scientist   Barak Obama Is the president of Unitede States  Herta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist  Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan ( born 1952 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India) is a structural biologist  Professor Charles Kuen Kao (Chinese: 高錕; born 4 November 1933) is a pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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After seeing a name of indian i rushed to surf for the indians nobel prize laureates and found that the present one is moreorless tenth noblel laureates having indian origin...
alas great dismay that we are lagging behind in fields for advancements of knowledge/science & technology...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan ( born 1952 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India) is a structural biologist his nationality is basically uk.
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