Taiwanese vegetable vendor is among Asia’s Nobel winners
July 26th, 2012 - 7:11 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Manila, July 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A vegetable vendor is among the winners of the Nobel price of Asia. Chen Shu-chu who is of Taiwanese origin was awarded by the Ramon Magsaysay Award ... Read more...
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Children shoot tough questions at Nobel laureates
January 6th, 2012 - 12:34 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Jan 6 (IANS) Why does hair turn grey as we grow old? Why can't water available on the moon be brought to earth? These were some of the questions ... Read more...
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Indian Science Congress 2011 to see five Nobel laureates
October 4th, 2010 - 7:15 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Oct 4 (IANS) Five Nobel Laureates and several eminent scientists from across the world are expected to participate in the 98th edition of the Indian Science Congress (ISC) to be ... Read more...
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Nobel winners want Obama to attend Hiroshima summit
August 27th, 2010 - 1:40 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 27 (DPA) A group of Nobel Peace laureates have written a letter to US President Barack Obama asking him to deliver the keynote address at a November summit in ... Read more...
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Physics Nobel gone to undeserving duo, say former colleagues
December 22nd, 2009 - 1:54 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Dec 22 (IANS) After the Nobel Peace Prize for US President Barack Obama, controversy has also hit this year's Nobel Prize for Physics.
Two former colleagues of Canadian Willard Boyle ... Read more...
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2009 a record year for women Nobel winners
October 12th, 2009 - 7:17 pm ICT by IANS
Stockholm, Oct 12 (DPA) The shared Nobel economics prize for Elinor Ostrom of the US Monday further underscored that 2009 was a record-year for women prize winners.
Ostrom, of Indiana University in Bloomington, ... Read more...
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Nobel winner Venki’s work as important as penicillin discovery: UK minister
October 8th, 2009 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
By Dipankar De Sarkar
London, Oct 8 (IANS) The scientific breakthrough provided by Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the Indian-born scientist who has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, could become as significant as ... Read more...
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Derek Walcott slams VS Naipaul in verse
June 2nd, 2008 - 1:32 pm ICT by admin
London, June 2 (ANI): Nobel prize-winning poet Derek Walcott has hit out at VS Naipaul in a manner he knows best verse.The poet who told the Calabash Literary Festival in Jamaica ... Read more...
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