Nobel Winner Issues Apology for Comments About Blacks
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James D. Watson, who won the Nobel prize for helping decipher DNA, apologized âunreservedlyâ Thursday for comments reported this week suggesting that black people, over all, are not as intelligent as whites.
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Once again, the Nobel-winning geneticist has embroiled himself in controversy  -  this time over foul remarks about race. But does he really deserve this much condemnation?
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Nobel Prize-winning DNA authority Dr.  James Watson cut short a book tour in Britain on Friday and  returned to the United States over racially insensitive  comments attributed to him in a British newspaper.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari  Maathai dismissed critics on Thursday who say ecology has too  little to do with peace to merit the award. She said most wars  are fought over natural resources.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has warmly welcomed the award of this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to environmentalist Wangari Maathai.
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DNA pioneer denies allegations of racism James Watson, the Nobel prize-winning scientist who caused an uproar earlier this week with his comments to a Sunday newspaper has been suspended by his research laboratory.â¦
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A Nobel winning novelist is among the alleged hit list of targets singled out for speaking about Turkey's treatment of its minorities
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'You disgust me!!!!!!' FoTW In case you missed it, Nobel prize winner James Watson recently got himself into a bit of trouble after claiming that black people are less intelligent than white people.â¦
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The Nobel Peace Prize has been given a new and important meaning for the 21st century. For the first time, the honor has gone to an African woman, and to an environmentalist.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai created controversy when she was quoted stating that AIDS originated in a research facility.
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Steve R. Nylund, president of the company that is selling a 49 percent stake of the free newspaper Metro Boston to The New York Times Co. , apologized yesterday for making a joke with a racially disparaging reference to African-Americans at a corporate function in Italy in April 2003.
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Saying the planet is at risk from human  activity, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai urged  democratic reforms and an end to corporate greed when she  collected the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
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Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday and urged world leaders to get on with fighting poverty and stop wasting money on wars like the one in Iraq.
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Nobel laureate biologist Jim Watson apologized "unreservedly" Thursday for stating that black people were not as intelligent as whites, saying he was "mortified" by the comments attributed to him.
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In his Nobel Prize speech today, Al Gore singled out the U.S. and China in particular for not doing enough.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, Monday spoke against widespread practices, such as forest farming, that, she says, are responsible for deforestation in her country.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, 64, who on Friday accepted the award in Oslo with a speech lauding a clean, sustainable environment as a key to peace, has spent much of her life defending Africa&#39;s forests.