Nobel Prize
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Nobel economics prize goes to two Americans
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Two American scholars were awarded the Nobel economics prize on Monday for studies on the match-making that takes place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals, students with schools and human organs with transplant recipients.
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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to Maryland man
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Two Americans have won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry--one of them, working out of Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win Nobel medicine prize
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British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for the discovery that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into blank slates that can become any kind of cell.
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Johns Hopkins professor Adam Riess shares Nobel Prize in physics
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Adam Riess, an astronomy and physics professor at Johns Hopkins University, says his "jaw dropped" when he learned he is sharing the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics with two others.
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Ralph Steinman awarded Nobel for immune system discoveries died three days earlier
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A Canadian-born scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for his discoveries about the immune system but hours later his university said that he had been dead for three days.
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