Hindu (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
If Dr. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan, who shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year with two others for mapping ribosomes at the atomic level, could not entertain the flurry of requests for an interview from the media after he won the ...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Since 1901 the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 90 times to 120 laureates but Iran holds the unique distinction of being the only regime to confiscate a winner’s medal. Aung San Sui Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader, was unable to collect her prize in 1991 because she was under house arrest. The Soviet authorities refused to let Andrei Sakharov, the dissident nuclear physicist, collect his...
American Presidents Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I admit it – when I was looking up the information for my last series of posts, I got distracted looking at other winners in all the fields (I had to find my personal favorite....actually not a US President, so if you are really curious, you'll have to check out my personal blog ), but I found a fun little connection to share, so hey, I can call it productive time! Marie Curie shared the 1903...
Scott's Web Log (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
About 2 weeks ago, I was in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area to attend the Diabetes Research Institute's Diabetes 2.0 Conference. I have attended several of their New York conferences in the past, but I had never been to their home-base in Florida before (ironic, considering my brother and sister both live nearby). Anyway, I was given a rare opportunity, along with some of my D-Blogging peers including...
Caribbeans Science and Art. (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
U.S. Science Group Seeks Cooperation With Cuba By Jeff FranksNovember 11, 2009 HAVANA (Reuters) - A group led by the head of the United States' biggest science organization is in Cuba this week to discuss ways to rekindle scientific cooperation as U.S.-Cuba relations slowly improve under U.S. President Barack Obama. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Peter Agre, president of the American Association for...
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Adelson Institute: Next month, Professor Ada Yonath will be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry, becoming the fifth Israeli scientist to win this award. This has sharpened, once again, the grim statistics regarding the scarcity of Nobel laureates in the Muslim and Arab worlds. While Jews, who are only around 0.2% of the world population, have [...]
Safehaven (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I can't tell you how surprised, even embarrassed I was to get the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Yes, I had passed the dreaded chemistry A-level for 18-year-olds back in England in 1958. But did they realize it was my third attempt? And, yes ...
Sandwalk (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952."for their invention of partition chromatography"Archer John Porter Martin (1910 - 2002) and Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914 - 1994) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on separating substances by partition chromatography.The technique they developed was called paper chromatography but today there are many other, more effective, versions...
Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Subject: txt gwot libs edu - The world finally has a definitive answer to the age-old question about whether intelligence is the same thing as common sense. That answer, in case you've ever wondered, is a conclusive " no ." Last week Israel Army Radio interviewed Dr. Ada Yonath, professor of structural biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, on her selection for a Nobel Prize for Chemistry....
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Jack Kemp (the unlate unpolitician) No, it's not Obama I'm talking about but incredibly the Israeli woman who shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This is a woman who has to have a large handbag checked when she goes into a supermarket in Israel and sees armed guards in grade school playgrounds as she she walks by in the street. I talk from personal experience from my visits to Israel, not just something...
Thomas Kraemer (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
PHOTO: (click photo to enlarge) Left -- title page of book by Elmer Otto Kraemer, Floyd Earl Bartell, Samuel Stephens Kistler, "Advances in colloid science, Volume 1," Interscience Publishers, 1942 ; Right -- photo of "Elmer O. Kraemer (1898-1943)" and "A Biography," p. xiii in a book initiated by Initiated by the late Elmer O. Kraemer, Herman Francis Mark, George Stafford...
J O S H U A P U N D I T (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
While a certain Nobel Peace prize recipient may have received a great deal more press, the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner is not without interest. She is Dr.Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, who received the Prize for over four decades of ground breaking work on protein "factories" in cells. This research is invaluable in trying to overcome antibiotic-resistant...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Every year, the first ten days of October are a period of excitement and expectation in scientific circles. This year was no different, except it also warmed the hearts of many Indians since the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was shared by Venkatraman ...
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
( NS: This is the funniest response to the incident the other day in Oslo that I’ve yet to read. ) That's Nobel-Prize Winning Teleprompter to You ... By Barack Obama’s Teleprompter Wow. What can I say. Wow. I'm honored. Clearly Big Guy - who can't stop dancing on the bed up in the residence right now, by the way - won this award for his speeches. I mean, after nominating himself for the...
Abhishek Tiwari's Blog (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Venki Ramakrishnan was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 'studies of the structure and function of the ribosome', the cell's protein-making factory. In this interview, he talks about his surprise at winning the prize, and what it meant to see the atomic-level structure of the ribosome for the first time. Original article is available at Fisheye Perspective blog. Stay tuned for more posts...
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