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 [...]
Tzvee's Talmudic Blog (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
The science behind the Nobel Prize award to Israel's Weizmann Institute scientist Ada Yonath and the story of the winner are told brilliantly by the Jewish Standard of Teaneck's expert science correspondent Dr. Miryam Wahrman in this week's cover story.
scaryideas (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Levi's : Nobel Women [Image] Levi's salutes Nobel's female five Levi's and Wieden + Kennedy Portland created this ad in recognition of the record five women who won Nobel prizes this year- Elinor Ostrom (Economics), Elizabeth Blackburn and Carole Greider (Medicine), Ada Yonath (Chemistry), and Herta Mueller (Literature). 39 women have won 40 Nobels (Marie Curie won twice!) since the prize was created...
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....
People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
by David Harris, Deng Yushan October 7 marked the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to science for Israeli chemist Ada Yonath. She became the ninth Israeli Nobel laureate and the first woman to pick up the prize for chemistry in some 45 years. &$ &$Israeli scientist and Nobel prize winner Ada Yonath attends a press conference in Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv,...
Tony Greenstein's Blog (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
An interesting article by Haaretz commentator, Ari Shavit, on how Israel's strength is being undermined politically by its growing illegitimacy. Tony Greenstein Israel needs legitimacy to wage war and peace By Ari Shavit, Haaretz Correspondent It seems as if everything is fine. Israel's borders are quiet, the state is stable, the economy is recovering. Hezbollah and Hamas have been deterred, real estate...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Cambridge, Oct. 18: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan had raced two others in his bid to unlock the secret of ribosomes, the cell's "protein factory", and all three shared this year's Chemistry Nobel. So how had the chemistry been between him and rivals Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath?
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...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Originally posted at Girl w/Pen It seems like every other story in the past month had a science grrl at its core. Some were good, some not so much. I honestly couldn’t make up my mind on which story to write about, so I’ll write a little about all of them: Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics . The best part of her story? That her high school advisor told...
Science Mag (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to three scientists who revealed the atomic structure and inner workings of the ribosome: Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science; Thomas Steitz of Yale University; and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Author: Robert F. Service
Babylon & Beyond (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
The Nobel Prizes take people from the forefront of their particular fields into the public eye. The intentions are good, a recognition of outstanding merit and achievement, of contribution to humanity. And it is humanity's nature to be curious about...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
This year a record five women were honored by the Nobel committees. In total, only 40 women have won the prestigious prizes, including Marie Curie who took the 1903 physics prize and the 1911 chemistry prize. The 2009 winners include: _ Elinor Ostrom, 76, who made history by being the first woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing it with fellow American Oliver Williamson...
Media Blog (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
This is a follow-up to my story about the British paper The Guardian removing Israelis from its Nobel Prize winners list . Israel has won more Nobel Prizes per capita in science - by far - than any other country. This year was no exception as the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (for a discovery which sounds as though it has major medical implications) is shared between three winners, one in the U.S.,...
Life in Israel (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Two ideas have recently been floated as to what the best way of preventing Israeli soldiers from being abducted in the future is: Moshe Feiglin's idea is that if enough soldiers sign in advance that they do not want the government to negotiate on their behalf if they should fall captive, Hamas would have no motivation to abduct soldiers. They will know that they cannot be used to negotiate the release...
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Prof. Stephen Plaut of Haifa University had this comment on the website of the American Zionist Yahoo Group regarding the bizarre political ties of Weizmann Institute Nobel Laureate Ada Yo...
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