The 2012 Confucius Peace Prize was presented to two Russian exchange students Friday on behalf of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The 2011 prize ceremony took place a day before the Nobel peace prize was awarded ito imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in absent1a. Readmjore at HUFF [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nobel’
October 3rd, 2011 - 7:59 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Nobels go to TOLLs
NOBEL ANNOUNCEMENT (from Reuters) “This year’s Nobel laureates have revolutionized our understanding of the immune system by discovering key principles for its activation,” the award panel at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said in a statement in Stockholm. The award went to [...]
September 23rd, 2011 - 3:21 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
The AVE Challenge: Who is going to win the Nobel Sunday Night?
About 9 AM Stockholm time Monday, the Karolinska is going to wake up one to three biologists and announce they have won the Nobel Prize. Thompson Reuters has their list based on citation, I call this hokey. Here is Thompsons’s list with my thumb added in an appropriate direction where[...]
November 17th, 2010 - 11:45 am § in Uncategorized
Why Can’t the Nobels Be More Like the Olympics?
Prince Carl-Philip of Sweden Image: Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images, mashed by SMS Good news for those women aspiring to win a Nobel Prize. Prince Carl-Philip of Sweden is an available bachelor. The prince, second in line to the Swedish throne after his sister Viktoria married her personal [...]