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Obama leaves for Oslo to collect Nobel Peace Prize

President Barack Obama left Wednesday night for Norway’s Oslo to receive his Nobel Peace Prize. U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama walk to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Dec. 9, 2009. Obama is travelling to Oslo, capital of Norway, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.(Xinhua/Zhang Yan)He is scheduled to... Read more

Obama accepts controversial Nobel Peace Prize

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday accepted his controversial Nobel Peace Prize “with deep gratitude and great humility” while acknowledging his few accomplishments and delivering a firm defense of war. Nobel Peace Prize laureate, U.S. President Barack Obama holds his diploma and medal during the Nobel Peace prize awarding ceremony at the City... Read more

2009 Nobel laureates receive their prizes

Twelve laureates of the 2009 Nobel Prizes received their prizes on Thursday at a ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall in the capital of Sweden. The 2009 Nobel Prize winners are pictured on stage after the prize giving ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm December 10, 2009. December 10, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Marcus Storch, chairman of the Board... Read more

Accept and respect HIV/AIDS patients: Nobel laureate

Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi talks with students at the Vietnam National UniversityTuesday. Ending discrimination is key to preventing dreaded disease, says virologist who discovered HIV. A French scientist awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 has urged students and scientists in Ho Chi Minh... Read more

Reading her way to Nobel fame

October 7 marked the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to science for Israeli chemist Ada Yonath. Israeli scientist and Nobel prize winner Ada Yonath attends a press conference in Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 7, 2009. (Xinhua Photo)A day before Israel celebrates its Children’s Day on Monday, the 70-year-old... Read more

Two U.S. economists win Nobel Prize for economics

Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson, both from the United States, won the 2009 Nobel Prize for economics for their analysis of economic governance, The photo taken on Oct. 12, 2009 shows the images of the 2009 Nobel Economics Prize winners Oliver Williamson (R) and Elinor Ostrom displayed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden. U.S.... Read more

Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced. U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement on the economy and the awarding of the 2016 Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, October 2, 2009.(Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)A graduate of Columbia University... Read more

German writer wins 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature

German author Herta Muller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller leaves her apartment after she had won the 2009 Nobel literature prize in Berlin, October 8, 2009. Mueller, who charted the brutality and oppressiveness of Nicolae Ceausescu’s dictatorship, was lost for... Read more

Israeli scientist becomes 4th female Nobel chemistry prize winner

Israeli scientist Ada E. Yonath was declared on Wednesday as one of the winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry, becoming the fourth woman to be awarded this honor. Israeli scientist and Nobel prize winner Ada Yonath attends a press conference in Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 7, 2009. Yonath and U.S. scientists... Read more

Three scientists share 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Two American scientists Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath of Israel won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.” “The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 awards studies of one of life’s core processes: the ribosome’s translation of DNA... Read more

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