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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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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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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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 life itself.
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Scientists yesterday mourned Maurice Wilkins, sometimes called the forgotten man of DNA, who died in hospital on Tuesday aged 88. Wilkins, a professor at King&#39;s College London, shared the 1962 Nobel prize
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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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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 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. Roger D. Kornberg of Stanford University School of Medicine won this yearÂs Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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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;
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Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for work on cosmic radiation that helped pinpoint the age of the universe and added weight to the Big Bang theory of its birth.
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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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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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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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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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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN -- Two Israelis and an American won the Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for showing how cells can give a &quot;kiss of death&quot; to destroy unwanted proteins, a finding that could help scientists find new medicines for cancer and other
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Description: Two Israelis and an American have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Their work shows how living cells recycle materials necessary for life.