The $1.1 million awards will be handed
out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's
death in 1896.
MEDICINE
U.S.-British scientist John O'Keefe split the Nobel Prize in
medicine with Norwegian couple May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser for
breakthroughs in brain cell research that could pave the way for a
better understanding of diseases like Alzheimer's.
PHYSICS
Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and Japanese-born U.S.
scientist Shuji Nakamura won the Nobel Prize in physics for the
invention of blue light-emitting diodes, which promises to
revolutionize the way the world lights its homes and offices, and
already helps create the glowing screens of mobile phones, computers
and TVs.
CHEMISTRY
U.S. researchers Eric Betzig and William Moerner and Stefan Hell of
Germany won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for finding ways to make
microscopes more powerful than previously thought possible, allowing
scientists to see how diseases develop inside the tiniest cells.
Showing posts with label Nobel Prize. Show all posts
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Oct 24, 2014
May 11, 2012
Madame Curie Facts
Marie Curie (1867-1934) was an expert in
physics, chemistry and radioactivity. She was also the first woman
to win a Nobel Prize and then was awarded a second.
Marie Salomea Sklodowska was born in Warsaw Poland. Her father was a math and physics teacher and atheist. Her mother was a teacher, operated a boarding school, and was Catholic. Four-year-old Marie taught herself how to read Russian and French and was known to help her four brothers and sisters with their math homework. It was also at age four that she began demonstrate her incredible memory.
As a teenager, Marie was anxious to attend college, but her family couldn’t afford it so she spent five grueling years earning money as a governess. In 1891 she headed for the Sorbonne in Paris. There, she met future husband Pierre Curie. While there, she discovered the radioactive elements radium and polonium (She named it after her native Poland). Later, she became the first woman professor at the Sorbonne.
In her thirties, Marie worked closely with her husband, and together they devised the science of radioactivity (she named the term radioactivity), for which they were awarded a Nobel Prize in physics. They had two children Irene and Eve. After Pierre’s death in 1906, Marie continued her work, winning her second Nobel, in chemistry at age 44.
It has been determined that Marie contracted aplastic anemia from all of her time spent with radiation which, at that point, had no dangers associated with it. She died from it in 1934.
Marie Salomea Sklodowska was born in Warsaw Poland. Her father was a math and physics teacher and atheist. Her mother was a teacher, operated a boarding school, and was Catholic. Four-year-old Marie taught herself how to read Russian and French and was known to help her four brothers and sisters with their math homework. It was also at age four that she began demonstrate her incredible memory.
As a teenager, Marie was anxious to attend college, but her family couldn’t afford it so she spent five grueling years earning money as a governess. In 1891 she headed for the Sorbonne in Paris. There, she met future husband Pierre Curie. While there, she discovered the radioactive elements radium and polonium (She named it after her native Poland). Later, she became the first woman professor at the Sorbonne.
In her thirties, Marie worked closely with her husband, and together they devised the science of radioactivity (she named the term radioactivity), for which they were awarded a Nobel Prize in physics. They had two children Irene and Eve. After Pierre’s death in 1906, Marie continued her work, winning her second Nobel, in chemistry at age 44.
It has been determined that Marie contracted aplastic anemia from all of her time spent with radiation which, at that point, had no dangers associated with it. She died from it in 1934.
Jun 8, 2009
Viagra Developer
Robert Furchgott, a Nobel prize-winning pharmacologist whose work with the gas nitric oxide helped develop the anti-impotency drug Viagra, has died at the age of 92. How interesting nitric oxide is a free radical and Viagra makes radicals free. Hmmm.
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