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Spending the Nobel Prize
Juhi Yajnik | Sep 28, 2006 | 4 min read
What do Nobel Laureates do with all that prize money? An informal survey of winners in Physiology or Medicine reveals generosity and a sense of fun
IVF pioneer earns Nobel
Vanessa Schipani | Oct 3, 2010 | 3 min read
Robert Geoffrey Edwards has this year's prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing the technique of in vitro fertilization
Action at a Distance, Circa Early 1950s
Diana Kwon | Dec 1, 2020 | 3 min read
Neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini began her Nobel Prize–winning work in a makeshift laboratory in Italy during the Second World War.
A close up of several modular puzzle pieces.
Making Connections: Click Chemistry and Bioorthogonal Chemistry
Deanna MacNeil, PhD | Feb 13, 2024 | 5 min read
Simple, quick, and modular reactions allow researchers to create useful molecular structures from a wide range of substrates.
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Constipation’s Effect on Scorpion Sex Garners Biology Ig Nobel
Christie Wilcox, PhD | Sep 16, 2022 | 3 min read
Other winners of this year’s prizes include research on the physics of ducklings and the therapeutic potential of ice cream.
North American Scientists Sweep This Year's Nobel Prizes
Angela Martello | Nov 11, 1990 | 3 min read
Advances in transplant science, synthetic organic chemistry, and the study of quarks have allowed six North American scientists to sweep this year's three Nobel science prizes. E. Donnall Thomas, 70, and Joseph E. Murray, 71, shared the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for their work in transplant medicine. Thomas, director emeritus of the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Division of Clinical Research, was cited for his pivotal work on bone marrow transplantation--a
Which Scientists Might Be Honored With The Nobel Prize?
Lisa Holland | Oct 1, 1990 | 8 min read
Forecasting who will walk away with the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology is hardly a precise science. Yet there are at least two indicators that have consistently pointed to prize-winning potential. One is a scientist's citation ranking; there is an unusually high correlation between citation frequency and Nobel recognition. The second indicator is the winning of one of the so-called predictor prizes that traditionally anticipate Nobel committee selections. As Columbia University sociolog
Overdue, First-Time Recognitions Mark '95 Nobel Science, Peace Prizes
Karen Young Kreeger | Nov 12, 1995 | 8 min read
Peace Prizes Author: Karen Young Kreeger Sidebar: 1995 Scientific Laureates Last month's announcements of the 1995 Nobel Prize recipients in the sciences were greeted with hearty approval by scientists from various sectors of the research community. Many of these investigators felt a sense of validation for their fields in the selection committees' choices. In physiology or medicine, the burgeoning discipline of developmental biology was recognized, and the subdiscipline of atmospheric chemi
Not winning the Nobel
Stephen Pincock(Stephen@biomedcentral.com) | Oct 7, 2003 | 3 min read
Raymond Damadian was conspicuously absent from the medicine prize awardees
Svante Pääbo with a skeleton
Svante Pääbo Awarded Nobel for Paleogenomics
Shawna Williams | Oct 3, 2022 | 3 min read
The geneticist’s accomplishments include sequencing Neanderthal DNA and leading the project that identified a new species of hominin, the Denisovans.

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