RUMSON, New Jersey — Arthur Ashkin, the world’s oldest Nobel Prize winner, favors comfort over style. When I met him in his New Jersey home, he was sporting a fleece-lined zip-up, corduroy pants, and …
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She’s one of 25 students from around the world to get to spend a week studying with Nobel laureates, Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield reports (2:58). WCCO 4 News At 5 – November 29, 2017
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Miniature robots that doctors could guide through a patient’s body to kill cancer cells are closer to reality thanks to winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Three winners share the £727,000 prize for developing nanoscale machines—1000 …
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That’s ironically what’s also gotten bitcoin a bad rap. But he goes on to push for the reason bitcoin is the invention that deserves a Nobel Prize. “Beyond demonstrating the possibility of creating a reliable digital currency, Satoshi Nakamoto’s …
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Opinion: Why More Inventions Don't Win Nobel Prizes, and Why That's a Good …
National Geographic When Alfred Nobel wrote a will leaving his fortune to underwrite annual prizes for intellectual achievement, he specified that one be given "to the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." To … Complete list of 2014 Nobel Prize winners, updated daily |