Nobel winner has Vermont ties
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Wangari Maathai (wan-GAH&#39;-ree mah-DY&#39;) of Kenya serves on the board of trustees for World Learning, the parent organization of the School for International Training in Brattleboro.
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An American and a Norwegian were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday for research into business cycles that changed how central banks conducted monetary policy in a number of countries over the past 10 years.
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Don't call him Sir Anthony Leggett just yet. Queen Elizabeth II put the University of Illinois physics professor and Nobel Prize winner, a British native, on her birthday knighthood list this summer, but he ...
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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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The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three Americans yesterday, including Leonid Hurwicz, a 90-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, the oldest person ever to win a Nobel.
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Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott will share the $US1.36 million Nobel prize for economics. Their 1977 research on the &quot;time consistency problem&quot; described how policy makers often
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The question comes up every year: Does the Nobel Peace Prize matter? This year&#39;s winner, Wangari Maathai of Kenya, is living proof the 103-year-old prize is an honour some people richly deserve.
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OSLO - The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Kenyan environmentalist last week added a new green dimension to the prize, but critics accused the Nobel committee of betraying a century-old focus on resolving armed conflicts.
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In awarding this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to a Kenyan environmentalist, the Norwegian Nobel Committee admitted it had stretched the definition of an award that its founder, Alfred Nobel, said should go to the person who does the most to promote peace
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Sometimes what at first seems like a minor change can actually signal major shift in understanding. Last week, Kenyan deputy environment minister Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize - a wonderful achievement for two reasons.
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Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe and deepen understanding of the origin of galaxies and stars.
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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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Melvin Schwartz shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for generating a beam of wispy particles known as neutrinos.
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NPR.org, October 8, 2004 Â· Kenyan environmental activist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
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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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NYERI (Kenya) - Crying with delight, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai planted a tree to celebrate winning the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday and vowed to use her award money to strengthen her campaign to save Africa&#39;s forests.
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The two Nobel Prize laureates, Avraham Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover, began working on their research into the ubiquitin system in 1981 when Hershko oversaw Ciechanover&#39;s doctoral thesis