That's the news from Scandinavia today: British doctor Robert Edwards wins Nobel Prize in medicine for work he started in the 1950s which culminated in the birth of Louise Brown, the first test tube baby, in 1978. As many as 4 million babies have been born via his method since then. Read the press release and check out the high resolution graphic.
Physics Nobel is tomorrow, Chemistry on Wednesday, Literature on Thursday and Peace on Friday. Economics is on Monday.
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Yeah better late than never, someone needs to ask them,the Nobel Prize committee, what took them so long.
I was forgetting - the Nobel committee did one more stupid thing - they did or could not give the nobel peace prize to.....M K Gandhi.
And why to Obama so soon...?
Sipozeman ti donn li sa en antisipasyon bon travay ki li bizin fer...
Yeah...Obama...thats a weird case....mo croire li un premature ca....en ceki concern Nobel Prize.
The official reason by the committee was "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"
But the main perception was that it was a rebuke to President Bush.
Interestingly the nobel prize for physics is for work, where the first paper was published in Science in 2004!
To think that the same paper was actually rejected for using the word "Graphene" in the title by the journal Nature.
@ VikramG:
Now look at how hard are the balls of the Nobel Committee when they award the prize for Peace: will they be as hard as a stiff middle finger held in the face of the Chinese Communist Party, or will they be as soft as to "strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" of Norway and China...?
The balls are way harder than expected:
"Le régime chinois avait mis le comité en garde contre un "geste inamical" susceptible d'affecter les relations entre la Chine et la Norvège. Selon les commentateurs, ce Nobel pourrait annihiler les espoirs de la Norvège de devenir, d'ici à la fin de l'année, le premier pays européen à conclure un accord de libre-échange avec la Chine" alors que d'autres pays, la France en tête, se soucient de "raisons mercantiles" avant toute chose...
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