Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize-winning Discovery of HIV, dies at 89
He discovered the virus that causes AIDS, got into a feud over it, and later became controversial during the Covid-19 crisis, taking an anti-vaccine stance. Source link
He discovered the virus that causes AIDS, got into a feud over it, and later became controversial during the Covid-19 crisis, taking an anti-vaccine stance. Source link
Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk was young in 2019. Nobel Prize winner for Literature. He was 57 years old, he had fears, the mischief of politics, he was a vegetarian. Agnieszka Holland’s novel “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” was recently made into a movie. “Sport,” An existential and ecology-focused piece of horror. …
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“Sympathy and solidarity are qualities that people need.” Source link
Enrolling at the University of Florida, he majored in agrochemistry, combining his interest in science developed in middle school with his childhood passion for farming. One summer, while working at an animal nutrition lab analyzing moth excrement, he was invited by a friend to work at an organic chemistry lab run by a new college …
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The Philippine Court of Appeals said on Friday it would allow the journalist. Maria Ressa to travel to Norway to get Nobel Peace Prizeoverturned the government’s decision to bar him from attending the ceremony. Ms. Ressa’s lawyer, Ted Te, filed an appeal last month. After the Philippines’ attorney general said for his client that the …
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Mark LaFramboise, a book buyer at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., said the store often struggles to find new Nobel laureate stock, but this year it has been unusually difficult. “In a typical year, it takes about two weeks. This year I hesitate to even guess,” he said. In Britain, Bloomsbury has ordered “tens …
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After a year in which only one of 13 Nobel laureates was a woman, a senior official of some of the awarding institutions rejected the idea of a gender quota, saying the current system was “in the spirit of Alfred Nobel’s last term”. intent.” Goran K. Hansson, general secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of …
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded Wednesday to Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan for their development of a new tool for building molecules, advances in pharmaceutical research and reducing the environmental impact of chemistry. While his work is not seen by consumers, it is an essential piece in many leading industries and is …
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The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to three scientists whose work “forms the foundation for our knowledge of Earth’s climate and how humanity affects it.” The winners were Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University, Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and Giorgio Parisi of Sapienza University of Rome. …
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The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to three scientists whose work “forms the foundation for our knowledge of Earth’s climate and how humanity affects it.” The winners were Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University, Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and Giorgio Parisi of Sapienza University of Rome. …
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Did death cheat Stephen Hawking with the Nobel Prize? When the iconic physicist died on March 14, 2018, data was already at hand that could confirm an ominous and far-reaching prediction he made more than four decades ago. Dr. Hawking had suggested that black holes, the maws of that gravitational apocalypse, could only grow, never …
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded Monday to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discovery of temperature and touch receptors.” His work sheds light on how to reduce chronic and acute pain associated with a range of diseases, traumas and their treatments. “Our ability to sense heat, cold, and touch …
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