Nobel Medicine Laureate Sune Bergstroem Dies at Age 88
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Swedish Nobel Prize laureate Sune Bergstroem, who shared the 1982 medicine award for research that led to new treatments for ulcers and menstrual pain, has died.
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Nuclear scientist Raja Ramanna passed away in a Mumbai hospital on Friday morning following an intestinal problem. Ramanna, 79, was admitted to Bombay Hospital on Thursday after he complained of giddiness and sweating.
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Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins, a British scientist who played a key role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died on Tuesday, his university said on Wednesday.
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Dr. Roger D. Kornberg of Stanford University School of Medicine won this yearÂs Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who rose from the ranks of guerrilla fighter to share a Nobel Peace Prize with his Israeli archenemies only to watch the peace process later unravel, died today.
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Social critic and author Susan  Sontag, one of America's leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday  at age 71 at New York's Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle  with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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Maurice Wilkins, the third man in the discovery of the structure of DNA, died Tuesday in London. He was 88. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 along
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The only man ever brought to trial for the 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme died on Wednesday, leaving the case an enduring mystery after almost 20 years.
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The guru to the Beatles who  introduced transcendental meditation to the West, Maharishi  Mahesh Yogi, died at his Dutch home overnight, aides said on  Wednesday. He was said to be 91.
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Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the  only writer in Arabic to win the Nobel Prize for literature,  died on Wednesday in Cairo aged 94, doctors said.
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Environment Deputy Minister Wangari Maathai (age 64) of Kenya was chosen for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Ole Danbolt Mjos, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee which is composed of five members, announced
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BOMBAY: Raja Ramanna, the scientist who pioneered India&#39;s drive to become a nuclear power, died yesterday in Bombay at age 79.
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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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Dr. Lederberg was one of the 20th centuryâs leading scientists, whose work in bacterial genetics had vast medical implications and led to his receiving a Nobel Prize.
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After a short, serious illness Rudolf Miele has died at the age of 74 in his hometown of Gutersloh, Germany.
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Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, died on Sunday of kidney failure, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported. He was 82.
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Susan Sontag, the author, human rights activist and social critic, has died in a New York cancer hospital, aged 71. Ms Sontag, who had suffered from leukemia for some time, was known for interests that ranged