Queen's axe-man wins his PhD
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Viva put him under pressure Queen guitarist Brian May will henceforth be known as Dr May, as the axe-slinger has finally been awarded his PhD.â¦
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Don't call him Sir Anthony Leggett just yet. Queen Elizabeth II put the University of Illinois physics professor and Nobel Prize winner, a British native, on her birthday knighthood list this summer, but he ...
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A gracious monarch and a charismatic dictator took the top prizes Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards.
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Male scientist are good at research because they have the hormone levels of women and long index fingers, a new study says. A survey of academics at the University of Bath has found that male scientists typically
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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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Visionary game make Peter Molyneux has been appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours list.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Kenyan tree planter and government minister Wangari Maathai has won the Nobel Peace Prize, Agence France-Presse said.
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Edward Prescott, the WP Carey Chair of Economics, has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, marking the first-ever Nobel Prize earned by an ASU scholar.
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The man who patented the "comb-over" hairstyle for covering the heads of bald men is one of 10 winners at the 2004 Ig Nobel awards.
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"Mutants," a non-fiction work that casts a sympathetic eye on genetics and physical deformity, has won the Guardian's First Book award, the first science book to claim the prize.
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed black people are less intelligent than whites, has pulled out of a book tour and gone home, his publicist said Friday.
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Norwegian-born Finn Kydland and  Edward Prescott of the United States won the 2004 Nobel  economics prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on  Monday.
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Two economists known for their work on the forces behind economic booms and busts have won this year&#39;s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said yesterday.
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Roger D. Kornberg, a biochemist at Stanford University, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for figuring out the intricate way in which information in the DNA of a gene is copied to provide the instructions for building and running a living cell.
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A Kenyan from Nairobi's slums gets a Masters from the UK university whose prospectus he found in a rubbish bin.
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The entrepreneur who founded budget airline easyJet has collected a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.
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A former university head is chosen to look after widening student access to higher education in England.