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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Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, has died at the age of 100.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Americans David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczeck won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their exploration of the force that binds particles inside the atomic nucleus.
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Maurice Wilkins, 88, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 along with the two scientists credited for describing the structure of DNA, Francis Crick and James Watson, died Tuesday at a London hospital.
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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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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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American Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize a half-century ago, was awarded the prize in chemistry Wednesday for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins.Comment
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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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Bert Bolin, a Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the Nobel Peace-winning U.N. panel on climate change, has died at age 82.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- American Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize a half-century ago, was awarded the prize in chemistry Wednesday for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins.
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LONDON Oct. 6, 2004 - Maurice Wilkins, a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of DNA research, has died. He was 88. Wilkins was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 along with the two scientists credited
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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died on Tuesday (October 5), Kings College London announced on Wednesday.
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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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Stanford University biochemist Roger D. Kornberg won a Nobel Prize last year for work he began in the 1970s, but he is pretty sure that if he had been born a generation later, he never would have had the chance.
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Roger D. Kornberg, an American, won the chemistry prize for research on how data in genes is used to make proteins.
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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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Appreciation: Folkman, who died Tuesday,  cured cancer in the lab and revolutionized treatment of the disease. His colleagues talk about the impact of the man and his research