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US-UK-Japan trio win chemistry Nobel for lithium-ion battery
The trio will receive the prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10
US trio wins Nobel Medicine Prize for research into ageing
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for identifying a key molecular switch in cellular ageing.
Doris Lessing wins Nobel Literature Prize
British writer Doris Lessing on Thursday won the Nobel Prize for Literature for five decades of epic novels that have covered feminism, politics as well her youth in Africa.…
Hard-disk breakthrough earns duo Nobel Physics Prize
Albert Fert of France and Peter Gruenberg of Germany on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize for Physics for work that led to the miniaturised hard disk, one of the breakthroughs of…
Nobel Prize for Medicine: Silence is golden
Two young United States scientists, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discovering how to silence malfunctioning genes, a breakthrough which…