Nobel Foundation News
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The Nobel Foundation, which this year lopped 20 percent off its cash prizes, is planning to invest more money through hedge funds to boost its returns and restore the award to its previous size.
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John B. Gurdon transferred DNA between a tadpole and a frog to clone the first animal. Shinya Yamanaka used Gurdon’s concept to turn ordinary skin into potent stem cells. Both won the Nobel Prize for medicine today.
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The Nobel Foundation, which awards winners a 10 million-krona ($1.5 million) prize, may reduce the amount as a decline in global markets lessens its returns, Svenska Dagbladet reported, citing Executive Director Lars Heikensten.
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The European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, providing a feel-good moment for the economically distressed bloc at a time when its post-national vision is losing traction at home and abroad.
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A U.S. and a French scientist won the Nobel Prize in Physics for finding ways to manipulate quantum particles without changing their nature, work that paved the way for a new generation of precision clocks and speedy computers.
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Two U.S. scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering receptors, proteins that receive and transmit messages to cells, and are the basis for as much as half of all today’s medicines.
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Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine for research illuminating how the body’s immune system recognizes infection and marshals an attack against it, an award made three days after one of the men died.
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Sweden’s 100-year-old Nobel Foundation, which every October gives 60 million kronor ($9 million) to prize winners in the award’s six categories, has begun hedging against the risk of currency fluctuations.
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Following is a historical table of Nobel Prize Laureates for Physics from the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm.
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Peter Higgs, the physicist whose paper in 1964 sparked the search for the theoretical particle named after him, said he didn’t expect it to be found in his lifetime.
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