Ralph Steinman died just days before the anouncement joking- "hope I drag till the anouncement". Daniel Shechtman was thrown out of his Team and later went to Israel for his heresy that quasi-crystals exist, when later it was found true.
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Three US-born scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics after discovering that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate.
Saul Perlmutter of Berkeley National Laboratory, along with Brian Schmidt of Australian National University, and Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University together share the $1.5m prize.
Their study of exploding stars revealed that after the Big Bang, the universe continued to expand for several billion years, but at a slower rate than today.
World’s most powerful eye peers at the cosmos
From: Euronews | Oct 4, 2011 | 132 views
http://www.euronews.net/ The world’s most powerful radio telescope has begun operating in Chile’s Atacama desert.
ALMA as its known is a joint US Europe and East Asia project and aims to gather information about the origins of the cosmos. So far 23 of the planned 66 antennas are functioning at a cost of more than one billion euros
Nobel award winner dies before hearing of prize
From: Euronews | Oct 4, 2011 | 364 views
http://www.euronews.net/ It has been revealed that a scientist who has won the Nobel prize for medicine for his work on fighting cancer recently died of the disease himself.
It was shortly after it was announced that Ralf Steinman had shared the award with American Bruce Beutler and French biologist Jules Hoffmann that the Nobel committee became aware that he died three days ago.
The rules state that only living people are eligible for the prize. Now the committee is hoping that can be overturned and the award can go to the Canadian’s family.
Scientist gets posthumous Nobel prize
From: AlJazeeraEnglish | Oct 3, 2011 | 1,689 views
A pioneering scientist who died just a few days ago has been confirmed as this year’s Nobel Prize winner for medicine.
The award for Canada-born Ralph Steinman had been thrown into doubt because only living scientists are considered eligible. But the committee said their decision stood leading to the first posthumous Nobel prize in half a century.
Steinman and two others were recognised for their work on the immune system.
The Rockefeller University, Steinman’s former employer, said he had been diagnosed with cancer four years ago, but had managed to extend his life using his own immuno-therapy.
Al Jazeera’s Caroline Malone reports.
Daniel Shechtman Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
From: AssociatedPress | Oct 5, 2011 | 0 views
Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Shechtman “for the discovery of quasicrystals.” (Oct. 5)
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