U.S.'s Kornberg wins Nobel, follows laureate father
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American Roger Kornberg, the son of a Nobel laureate, won the 2006 Nobel prize for chemistry on Wednesday for describing gene copying in cells, which can give insight into illnesses such as cancer and heart disease.
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American Roger Kornberg won the 2006 Nobel prize for chemistry for work on how cells copy genetic information to be used by the body, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Wednesday.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden 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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Lives up to Dad A Stanford structural biologist has followed in his father's footsteps by bagging a Nobel Prize. Roger Kornberg was awarded the medal today for his work revealing some of the molecular jiggery-pokery which turns information held by DNA into functioning proteins.â¦
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Finn Kydland of Norway and Edward Prescott of the United States won the Nobel economics prize Monday for research that laid the groundwork for more
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American Roger Kornberg, the son of a Nobel laureate, won the 2006 Nobel chemistry prize on Wednesday for showing how genes are copied, a process essential to how cells develop and life itself.
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Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for their work with a satellite which provided increased support for the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
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Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for discovering a powerful way to turn off the effect of specific genes, opening a new avenue for disease treatment.
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Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the 2006 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for discovering how to control the flow of genetic information in a cell.
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Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe and deepen understanding of the origin of galaxies and stars.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Norwegian and an American won the 2004 Nobel prize in economics Monday for their work in determining the consistency of economic policy and the driving force behind business cycles worldwide, work that has shown how the money supply
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American Roger Kornberg, the son of a Nobel laureate, won the 2006 Nobel chemistry prize on Wednesday for showing how cells copy genes, a process essential to how cells develop and to life itself.
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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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An American and a Norwegian were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday for research into business cycles that changed how central banks conducted monetary policy in a number of countries over the past 10 years.
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Three Americans yesterday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for describing the force that shapes the structure of atomic nuclei, a key to understanding the
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The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded to Roger Kornberg for work on protein synthesis.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for her work planting tens of millions of trees  to save the environment. The award marks a new theme in  interpreting the 1895 will of Sweden's Alfred Nobel, who  founded the prize.