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http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/press.html
I just wanted to give a nod to professors Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for creating the first blue LED light.
I love blue LEDs, albeit because of the the eye candy impact of a pure blue light. I'm...
Canadian Frederick G Banting and Scot John JR Maclead won the Noble prize for medicine for discovering insulin and thus helping millions of diabetics around the world. But a claim has been made that a Romanian scientist named Nicolai Paulescu came up with the discovery first only he called it...
I think this question is aimed at the Europeans. There has been a good amount of controversy over Horace Engdahl's (a Swede named Horace??) comments that American literature is too provincial, insular (etc.) to be considered. I'm not going to argue that point in general.
But I want to look at...
NY Times Columnist and Princeton Econ Professor Paul Krugman wins the Nobel prize in Economics
Since the Nobel has become politicized in recent years, it's a little hard to tell if it's really because of his scholarly work or because he is a critic of the Bush administration. I like Krugman...
Yippie. One of my favorite writers wins the Nobel Prize for liturature. It is recognition well deserved. If you've not read any, I highly recommend Snow, Istanbul, The White Castle and the Black Book. There are many others. He has a fantastic way of describing the delema of being between...
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