The Prize That Even Some Laureates Question
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Dismay with the kind of work that has often been honored by the Nobel prize in economics, has led even a couple of its winners to suggest it be abolished.
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NEW YORK - As Israel captured its first Nobel prize in science this week, Jews worldwide kvelled over the recognition of excellence in a discipline that has long been a hallmark of the Jewish state.
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Their discoveries may be hard for many to comprehend, but this year's Nobel Prize winners Wednesday did their best to explain what they did and how they did it.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The Nobel Prize in physics is like a scientific riddle: speculation about who could win equals the sheer complexity of the work examined for the coveted award.    This year's choice, which is to be announced Tuesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, could be involved in the search for dark matter or nanotubes...
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Two US-based professors have won this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for Economics. The award has gone to Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott for their work in a field known as dynamic macro-economics.
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While Nobel prizes are given for past performance, other types of inducement prizes are intended to spur innovation. Do they do the job?
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An Austrian playwright and author has won this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for literature. Elfriede Jelinek will go away with more than a million euros in prize money but also the massive kudos of winning a Nobel award
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The 2006 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced on Thursday, the Swedish Academy has said, with Stockholm's literary circles speculating over a slew of names for this year's winner including Amos Oz, Philip Roth, Adonis and Mario Vargas Llosa.
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Here in the Land of Saints and Scholars, it seems everyone has a chance at winning a lucrative literary award.
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Will it be an Arab, a woman, a poet? The buzz mounted as the literary world played its annual guessing game of who would win the coveted Nobel Prize in literature this year, but no single author emerged a clear favorite in the prediction derby.
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If a herring asks you to pull his finger, be very afraid. Thatâs one of the lessons derived from this yearâs Ig Nobel awards ceremony, an event that honors offbeat scientific achievements.
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While Nobel Prizes are given for past performance, other types of inducement prizes are intended to spur innovation. Do they do the job?
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Judges who award the Nobel prize for  literature have long been suspected of courting the  controversial or obscure just for the sake of it, but the head  of the selection panel said merit is the sole consideration.
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The 2004 Nobel prizes will be announced between October 4 and 11, the Nobel Foundation said, with US president George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the running for the prestigious Peace Prize.
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Two US researchers yesterday shared the Â£760,000 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for their discovery of the molecular machinery behind the scent of lilac in the spring, the bouquet of a vintage burgundy or the smell of napalm in the morning.
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The honour carries a cash prize of 25,000 euros (some $32,000). The awards panel described the book as "a work in which a long history of literary creation and critical and theoretical reflection unfolds with ...
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The University of California system is amassing Nobel Prizes at campuses once noted more for beer bashes and odd mascots than academic excellence.