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People: Septuagenarian Scientists To Receive 1989 Kyoto Prizes
The Scientist Staff | Aug 6, 1989 | 2 min read
Japan's Inamori Foundation has named its Kyoto Prize laureates for 1989. Since 1985, the foundation has awarded prizes to individuals or groups making significant contributions to advanced technology, basic sciences, and the humanities. Amos Edward Joel Jr., a retired executive consultant at AT&T Bell Laboratories, will receive the Kyoto Prize for his contributions in advanced technology. Joel, 71, developed the electronic switching system, the key to the United States' public communications net
Breakthrough Prizes for Life Scientists
Tracy Vence | Dec 4, 2016 | 2 min read
Awards of $3 million each go to five researchers in the life sciences, recognizing their pioneering work on autophagy, DNA-damage response, Wnt signaling, and more.
Thomson Reuters Predicts Nobelists
Bob Grant | Sep 24, 2015 | 2 min read
The information firm uses citation statistics to forecast potential winners of the 2015 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine.
Cell Reprogramming Work Wins Nobel
Beth Marie Mole | Oct 7, 2012 | 1 min read
John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka jointly take home this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for turning back the developmental clock. 
Cell Re-Programmers Take the Nobel
Beth Marie Mole | Oct 7, 2012 | 2 min read
John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for learning how to reboot cellular development. 
Proliferation Of Scientific Prizes Reinforces Nobel's Distinguished Honor
Harriet Zuckerman | Nov 10, 1996 | 7 min read
Prizes in science-especially those with large honoraria-are proliferating. In North America alone, some 3,000 prizes are available in the sciences-five times as many as 20 years ago. In the same interval, the population of working scientists has grown, but at nothing like that clip. Like their predecessors, most new prizes are designed to honor those who have done significant research and, as a byproduct, to honor those who award them. Unlike most of their predecessors, many new prizes are ric
Lasker Winners Announced
Tracy Vence | Sep 8, 2014 | 2 min read
This year’s prizes honor pioneering work on the unfolded protein response, deep-brain stimulation, and the discovery of cancer-related genes.
Increasing Number of iPS Cell Therapies Tested in Clinical Trials
Katarina Zimmer | Nov 28, 2018 | 6 min read
Since their discovery in 2006, induced pluripotent stem cells have been poised to reprogram regenerative medicine. Twelve years on, here’s how far they’ve come.
Week in Review: October 5–9
Tracy Vence | Oct 8, 2015 | 2 min read
This year’s Nobel Prizes; toward developing a brown fat-activating drug; certain antioxidants can increase the spread of melanoma in mice; anonymity and post-publication peer review
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Remembering Those We Lost in 2021
Lisa Winter | Dec 23, 2021 | 5 min read
As the year draws to a close, we look back on researchers we bid farewell to, and the contributions they made to their respective fields.

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