Nobel Scientist Julius Axelrod Dies at 92
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Julius Axelrod, a National Institutes of Health neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how nerve cells communicate and affect behavior, has died. He was 92.
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Thomas M. Donahue, one of the country&#39;s leading space and planetary scientists and a pioneer of space exploration, died Saturday of complications following heart surgery.
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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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Columbia University professor Richard Axel will share the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine with Linda Buck of Seattle&#39;s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for their work on smell.
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William C. Reeves, the UC Berkeley scientist whose pioneering research into the links between insects and human disease played a major role in stemming the spread of West Nile virus and other far more deadly disease outbreaks around the world, died Sunday
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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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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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Christopher Reeve, who portrayed a hero in the &quot;Superman&quot; films and embodied one as an advocate for spinal cord research after being paralyzed in an accident, has died.
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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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The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded to American Roger Kornberg for his work on protein synthesis.
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British scientists and science commentators have paid tribute to the DNA pioneer Maurice Wilkins, who died on Tuesday aged 88. Professor Wilkins, who called himself &quot;the third man of the double helix&quot;, helped
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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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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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Bert Bolin, a pioneering Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the U.N.'s Nobel award-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has died, his colleague Henning Rodhe said Wednesday. He was 82.
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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 Raja Ramanna, the bellwether of Indiaâs nuclear programme, passed away at Bombay Hospital in the early hours of Friday. He was 79.
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Dr. Judah Folkman, a groundbreaking researcher who worked to cut off cancer from its blood supply, curing the disease in mice and giving humans hope for a cure, has died. He was 74.