Joshua Lederberg, 82, a Nobel Winner, Dies
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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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Roger D. Kornberg has won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his genetics work, following in the footsteps of his father, who received the 1959 Nobel in medicine.
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Martin M. Kaplan, a health researcher and former secretary-general of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pugwash conferences on disarmament, has died. He was 89.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for discovering a key way cells destroy unwanted proteins - starting with a chemical "kiss of death."   When the process goes wrong, several hundred diseases can result, including cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis. So the work provides the basis for developing new therapies...
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James LeVoy Sorenson, the 86-year-old founder of Sorenson Squeeze digital video compression and encoding technology, dies of cancer.
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Polish writer and poet Czeslaw Milosz, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1980, died at the age of 93, PAP news agency quoted his family as saying.
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LONDON One of the scientists involved in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA has died. Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 for his role in what&#39;s considered one of the most important discoveries in science.
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Ernst Mayr, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, has died at 100.
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Maurice Wilkins, 88, a Nobel Prize winner whose role in discovering the double helix structure of DNA has been overshadowed by more-celebrated colleagues for the past half-century, died Oct. 5 in a London hospital.
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A Columbia University professor on Monday was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Richard Axel, 58, and fellow researcher Linda Buck received the award for their studies on the sense of smell.
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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 to life itself.
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Robert Kupperman, a government scientist who started warning of terrorist attacks against the United States more than 30 years ago, has died of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 71.
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Columbia University researcher Richard Axel, 58, and Seattle scientist Linda Buck, 57, were named Monday as the winners of this yearâs Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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Science & environment: Nobel winner David Baltimore says complexity of disease means scientists are no closer to finding vaccine
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Dr. Judah Folkman, a giant of cancer research who discovered that tumors generate a network of tiny blood vessels to nourish themselves, has died at the age of 74, Harvard Medical School said on Tuesday.
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Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Tuesday for discovering a process that lets cells destroy unwanted proteins.
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STOCKHOLM -- Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for discovering a key way cells destroy unwanted proteins -- starting with a chemical ''kiss of death.&quot;