Hillary Mantel wins Man Booker Prize for 'Wolf Hall'October 7th, 2009 LONDON - Hilary Mantel has won the Man Booker Prize for her novel, 'Wolf Hall'. The book set in 1520s narrates the story of Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell's rise in the Tudor court.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Ramakrishnan, Steitz, YonathOctober 7th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E.
Ramakrishnan, Steitz, Yonath win Nobel for ChemistryOctober 7th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E.
Ramakrishnan, Steitz, Yonath win Nobel Prize for ChemistryOctober 7th, 2009 LONDON - Indian-born scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E.
Indian-origin scientist, two others win Nobel Prize for Chemistry (Second Lead, Changing Dateline)October 7th, 2009 LONDON - Indian-origin scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E.
Kao, Boyle and Smith jointly awarded Nobel for PhysicsOctober 6th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Charles K. Kao, Willard S.
Kao, Willard and Boyle win Nobel Physics PrizeOctober 6th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Charles K. Kao, Willard S.
Hilary Mantel wins Booker prizeOctober 6th, 2009 LONDON - Hilary Mantel, author of the historic novel Wolf Hall, Tuesday received the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction. The 50,000-pound ($80,000) prize was awarded for her much-praised novel about Thomas Cromwell's rise to prominence in the Tudor court of the 1520s, the Booker prize website said.
Three US scientists win Nobel Prize for medicineOctober 5th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak of the US have won this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine, it was announced in Stockholm Monday. The three scientists solved a fundamental problem in biology on "how chromosomes can be copied in a complete way and how they are protected against degradation", the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute said.
Gas-mask bra designers win Ig Nobel prizeOctober 2nd, 2009 LONDON - The designers of a bra that turns into gas masks have received the 2009 Ig Nobel prize organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. The undergarment can be converted into one mask for the wearer and one for a needy bystander.
Green Revolution pioneer Norman Borlaug dies at 95September 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Renowned American agricultural scientist and Nobel laureate Norman E. Borlaug, who played a major role in developing disease-resistant wheat used to fight famine in poor countries, has died at the age of 95.
Indian sanitation guru receives Stockholm Water PrizeAugust 20th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - India's Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of the Sulabh sanitation movement, was Thursday awarded the Stockholm Water Prize, the most prestigious environmental recognition that has become akin to a Nobel Prize for environmental issues. "Sanitation is humanity's and the world's most urgent and critical crisis of our times," Bindeshwar Pathak told IANS here Thursday, and on a more optimistic note said, "However, it is not yet an unsolvable crisis but a huge challenge.
Indian-origin girls bag first, third spots in Scripps National Spelling BeeMay 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Kansas-based, Indian-origin girl Kavya Shivashankar, 13, has become America's spelling champion by winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The budding neurosurgeon from Olathe took home more than 40,000 dollars in cash and prizes and the huge champion's trophy.
US 'Viagra scientist' passes away at 92May 24th, 2009 LONDON - A leading US scientist, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1998 for his contribution in the development of Viagra, has passed away. He was 92. Robert Furchgott's family announced he had died in Seattle on Tuesday, reports the BBC.
Al Gore's new book on climate change due in NovemberMarch 25th, 2009 LONDON - Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US Vice President Al Gore has announced that the follow-up to his 2006 best-seller "An Inconvenient Truth" will release in November. The new book, Our Choice, is on climate change that proposes solutions to global warming and present climate crisis.
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