Science educators happy over Nobel sweep
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The American sweep of Nobel Prizes in science this year has filled the nation's science educators with pride over what's done well in labs and classrooms &#151; and angst over what's not.
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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.
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Two economists whose work paved the way for success in the fight against inflation in Britain and other countries were rewarded with the Nobel prize yesterday.
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A committee of renowned scientists said the result was a vote of confidence in medical research and a positive sign for Switzerland as a centre for science and research.
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Roger D. Kornberg, a biochemist at Stanford University, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for figuring out the intricate way in which information in the DNA of a gene is copied to provide the instructions for building and running a living cell.
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Finn Kydland of Norway and Edward Prescott of the United States won the Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that laid the groundwork for
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David Gross, David Politzer and Frank  Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel physics prize Tuesday for explaining  how the basic building blocks of nature, quarks, interact to  make a coin spin or build the entire universe.
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Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:
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GOLETA, Calif. - The University of California system is amassing Nobel Prizes at campuses once noted more for beer bashes and odd mascots than academic excellence...
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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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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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Two Israelis and one American won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on how a cell breaks down proteins that are damaged or have outlived their usefulness.
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Two Israelis and an American won the Nobel Prize in  Chemistry yesterday for discovering the method by which cells tag proteins that are defective or have outlived their usefulness and direct them to the cellular machinery that grinds them up into reusable parts.
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Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for finding the background radiation that finally nailed down the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
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John C. Mather and George F. Smoot today won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research helping to solidify the big bang theory of the origin of the universe.
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Three Americans who helped describe the force that binds together the atomic nucleus were named winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Two US scientists win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for uncovering the secrets of the human sense of smell.