The Prize That Even Some Laureates Question
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Dismay with the kind of work that has often been honored by the Nobel prize in economics, has led even a couple of its winners to suggest it be abolished.
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Americans have dominated the annual Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences five years running, and it may not surprise Nobel watchers if the trend continues.
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Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:
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Of the three Nobel Prizes announced this week, the five different researchers share one decidedly common trait: They're all American.
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The struggles of past nominees demonstrate the elusive nature of motion picture's most prestigious prize.
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The committee that bestows the Nobel Peace Prize could use the honor to draw focus to great threats to world, such as weapons of mass destruction or AIDS. Members may also try to jump-start a flagging peace effort. Or, as has happened so often in the past, they might just surprise everybody with a dark horse winner.
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Violence, sexuality and gender politics dominate the controversial writing of Elfriede Jelinek, winner of this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960:
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NEW YORK -- Readers are eager to learn more about Austriaâs Elfriede Jelinek, who was virtually unknown in the United States before the announcement that she had received the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Speculation grows ahead of Friday's announcement of the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Will it be an Arab, a woman, a poet? The buzz mounted as the literary world played its annual guessing game of who would win the coveted Nobel Prize in literature this year, but no single author emerged a clear favorite in the prediction derby.
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One winner was lecturing in Norway when he found out. The other was sleeping in Arizona. Finn Kydland of Norway and American Edward Prescott -- colleagues since the 1970s -- learned Monday they had won the 2004 Nobel Prize in economics.
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Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet Elfriede Jelinek has won the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature. Ms. Jelinek is the first woman since 1996 to obtain the coveted prize, worth $1.
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By MATTI HUUHTANEN HELSINKI, Finland - The winner of a $1.2 million prize for his inventions in light and laser technology said Friday he will give away some of his money to promote research at universities and organizations that help developing countries.
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Back in the 1700s, prizes were a fairly common way to reward innovation. But todayâs economy doesnât have nearly enough of them.
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The 2006 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced on Thursday, the Swedish Academy has said, with Stockholm's literary circles speculating over a slew of names for this year's winner including Amos Oz, Philip Roth, Adonis and Mario Vargas Llosa.
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Since a Nobel-winning discovery, cosmology has gotten more complicated.