nobel prize winners

NDW9zKqvPJI A short article about the woman that discovered pulsars in 1967, a pioneer in STEM who broke down the barriers and in doing so allowed for the women of today to go into fields that once they were denied. She was also denied the Nobel Prize in Physics for her discovery. The story is...

Announced a few minutes ago. Yeah, yeah, Nobel dynamite hot airz blah you do better... This is still a significant acknowledgement of some awe-inspiring science. Roger Penrose won for showing black holes prove a robust theory of relativity. Andrea Gehz and Reinhard Genzel won for the...

After last year'a silliness of awarding the prize to Bob Dylan, this year the Nobel people decided to give the award to a proper novelist who even writes accessible books. I've read three of his books all the way through, including Remains of the Day, which you can watch in a film starring...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 to Takaaki Kajita Super-Kamiokande Collaboration University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan and Arthur B. McDonald Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada “for the...

Full story at CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/24/us/feat-john-nash-wife-killed/index.html ETA: AAAACK! Nobel not Noble. *Slaps myself*

RIP Fred Sanger, the only Briton to have won 2 Nobel prizes. Died Tuesday 19th November 2013, aged 95. A colossus of science. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25020112 And from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (I used to work on the Genome Campus, a mile from where I live)...

Canadian author Alice Munro has won this years Nobel Prize for literature. Ms. Munro was described has the "Master of the modern short story". I agree her stories are carefully crafted and strongly evoke a sense of place. I am especially fond of a collection called Who do You Think You are?. I...

Through a series of unusual coincidences, I will have the opportunity to meet John Nash next Friday (Oct 12). My father and I are having lunch with him. So, fellow forumites - HELP! What questions, topics, witty repartee would you share when having lunch with a Nobel prize winner...