Nobel's Prizes.
The passage below is a short biography of Alfred Nobel, the man who created the Nobel Peace Prize. Read it carefully, and then answer the questions at the right. The Nobel Prizes were the brainchild of Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1855-1896) of Sweden, an accomplished scientist, businessman, and...

Americans win Nobel Prizes.
American scientists have reason to cheer. This year, for the first time since 1983, Americans have won all of the Nobel Prizes in science. Five U.S. scientists will be presented with their prizes on December 10 in Sweden. Sweden is a country in Europe. One winner, Roger...

Nobel prizes recognize things great and small: awards focus on birth of universe and the workings of cells.
The 2006 Nobel prizes in the sciences were announced early this week. U.S. scientists swept the field. Physiology or Medicine Eight years after revealing a mechanism that cells use to regulate protein production, a pair of U.S. scientists received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

Nobel's prizes.
The Nobel Prizes were the brainchild of Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896) of Sweden, an accomplished scientist, businessman, and engineer. Nobel had more than 350 patented inventions. Nobel's greatest scientific achievement was the invention of dynamite in 1867. Named after dynamis, the Greek word for "power," dynamite made it easier,...

Those handing out the Nobel prizes have outdone themselves.
Those handing out the Nobel prizes have outdone themselves. For literature, we have Harold Pinter, whose main qualification seems to have been his unremitting--and juvenile and specifically anti-American--leftism. He is a worthy successor to Elfriede Jelinek, Dario Fo, and other such giants (whose political credentials are nevertheless impeccable). He...

Nobel prizes: the power of original thinking: awards honor a gutsy move, optical brilliance, and chemical crossovers.
The 2005 Nobel prizes in the sciences were announced early this week. Physiology or Medicine Two Australian scientists who showed that bacteria can cause stomach ulcers have won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The researchers made their discovery 23 years...

AwardsandHonors.com Launches...the Web's First Comprehensive Awards Portal.
NORTH CALDWELL, N.J., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The official launch of AwardsandHonors.com , the Web's first comprehensive awards portal, was announced today by CEO Jon Gelberg. Featuring over 800 awards and honors and more than 32,000 award winners, AwardsandHonors.com provides news, trivia, polls, a calendar and a fully searchable...

The Nobel Prize backstories.
Byline: Thoru Pederson COLUMN: AS I SEE IT Most everyone has heard of the Nobel Prizes and people admire pioneers in science and medicine, but greater interest lies, understandably, in the payoffs of these discoveries. Last week the world learned that, in the category of...

AstraZeneca Nobel Medicine Initiative to Increase Interest in the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Global Initiative Will Highlight Benefits of Scientific Breakthroughs to Human Health and Feature Lecture Events, Interactive Educational Content, and Broadcast Documentaries to the General Public STOCKHOLM, November 11 /PRNewswire/ -- AstraZeneca AB, Nobel Media AB and Nobel Web AB today announced the launch of a global co-operation...

October Films and Nobel Media Announce First Commission of Nobel Documentary.
STOCKHOLM, November 26 /PRNewswire/ -- October Films has received its first commission from Nobel Media AB, the company responsible for producing the official Nobel TV programmes. October Films is to produce a 1 x 30 minute documentary portraying the 2008 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (title...