Nobel Prizes - Page 2

chequita guevara · October 5, 2003, 23:46

I hope J2P doesn't ever get a prize. According to this pamphlet (The Renegade Pope) I read which I found on the ground from some Xian group, J2P worked for the company that manufactured Zyklon-B for use in the Nazi death camps.

Az · October 6, 2003, 06:05

Bump. today is the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.

*crosses fingers*

Saint Marcus · October 6, 2003, 06:17

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J2P worked for the company that manufactured Zyklon-B for use in the Nazi death camps.

by choice?

I believe the Jews themselves applaud JP2 for his helping Jews escape/hide in WW2.

Chemical Ollie · October 6, 2003, 07:02

The medicine prize goes to the Brit PC Lauterbury and the American P Mansfield for presenting the basic principles that lead to the development of NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) Tomography for non-destructive 2D-3D inspection of the body, commonly used on the brain.

I thought the inventors of NMR already got the Chemistry prize? I vaguely remember seing a Nobel Prize poster explaing the principles of NMR hanging at the wall when I was in University.

I saw a scientific TV program 1-2 years ago where some researcher used NMR to study the bodily processes and organs during intercourse. It was the first time that event had been literally studied on the inside in real time, rather than from outside or in theory. Only one example of NMR , of the more popular kind.

Bas · October 7, 2003, 09:24

The physics prize has gone to Ginzburg, Abrikosov and Leggett for their work on superconductivity and superfluidity. I only know Ginzburg, but apparently, they're all theorists.

JohnT · October 7, 2003, 09:27

Isn't that the third or fourth prize given in the field of superconductivity?

chequita guevara · October 7, 2003, 09:29

You are all such geeks. I love this place.

Az · October 7, 2003, 10:55

Not all scientists are geeks! Didn't you ever here of fun science?

Eli · October 7, 2003, 10:59

to Ginzburg and Abrikosov.

Oh, the gentile dude deserves a

too.

Az · October 7, 2003, 11:21

Sloth · October 8, 2003, 10:48

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Originally posted by Sloth
Economics: Engle & Granger for their studies on the volatility of financial markets.

Peace: not assigned

Incredible I got it right!!!!

DanS · October 8, 2003, 11:10

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Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon, two US scientists, have won this year's Nobel prize for chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Wednesday.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the prestigious prize, said on Wednesday their discoveries of how salts and water are transported in and out of human cells was of "great importance for our understanding of many diseases".

DanS · October 8, 2003, 12:38

Here's a good article on the economics prize...

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentSe...=1012571727092

Kropotkin · October 8, 2003, 13:09

That economics prize still not a nobel prize. Oh well, no one seems to care.

I guess it's an important methological tool, not very exciting for the wast majority though.

DanS · October 8, 2003, 13:17

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Oh well, no one seems to care.

No, not really.

Az · October 8, 2003, 13:21

Yeah, and I don't really think they should.

Gangerolf · October 10, 2003, 04:56

Peace:
who's it gonna be?

one of these?

Vaclac Havel
The pope
Lula
Hans Blix
Hamid Karzai
Wei Jingsheng
Mordechai Vanuanu (sp?)

we'll know in 5 minutes

Gangerolf · October 10, 2003, 05:00

Shirin Ebadi

Iranian human rights activist.

a worthy "winner"

Eli · October 10, 2003, 05:06

Who?

Kropotkin · October 10, 2003, 05:09

I guess she haven't lead a genocide like most of the well-known winners of the noble peace prize...

Gangerolf · October 10, 2003, 05:11

She is accused by some hard-line ayatollahs of trying single-handedly to undermine Iran's Islamic revolution. Petite and soft-spoken, she looks no match for her bearded detractors. But Shirin Ebadi is made of steel.

"Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear," she says.

Ms. Ebadi was Iran's first woman judge before the revolution, after which the ayatollahs decided women were too emotional and irrational to hold such posts. She now lectures in law at Tehran University, is a vocal campaigner for women's and children's rights, and takes on cases other lawyers would never dare touch.
http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/10/15/p1s4.htm

uh Clem · October 10, 2003, 05:53

The prize for Medicine should go to those guys who keep e-mailing me about how to enlarge my manhood.

Chemical Ollie · October 10, 2003, 07:45

An Aussie betting company had the following odds for some of the numerous Peace Prize candidates:

Pope 1.75
Vaclav havel 5
Hans Blix 81
G.W. Bush 205

I wonder if the winner was even on their list? A worthy winner though. Not even Bush could complain.

Chemical Ollie · October 15, 2003, 14:27

The Polar prize (music prize founded by ABBA money, also called the Nobel Prize in Music) goes to BB King

Q Classic · October 15, 2003, 14:30

prize in literature.

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031009/coetzee.shtml

which brings the total to 75 for uchicago.

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/resources/nobel/

TCO · October 15, 2003, 17:54

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Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Almost certainly yet another experimentalist.

Damn anti-theory bias...

Theorists are maggots. They will predict results after they see them. Weener-heads.

TCO · October 15, 2003, 17:57

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Originally posted by Bas
The physics prize has gone to Ginzburg, Abrikosov and Leggett for their work on superconductivity and superfluidity. I only know Ginzburg, but apparently, they're all theorists.

didn't know ginsberg was alive. What about Landau?