U.S. duo win physics Nobel for backing up Big Bang
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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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Description: NPR&#39;s Alex Chadwick talks with NPR&#39;s Richard Harris about the recipients for the Nobel Prize for physics, American scientists David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek.
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The big-bang theory of the universe, microcredit and literature exploring Turkey's clash of cultures will be honored as six American scientists, a Bangladeshi economist and a Turkish novelist receive the Nobel Prizes Sunday in Stockholm and Oslo.
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Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for producing the first tangible evidence that the universe began billions of years ago with the long-theorized big bang.
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Two economists known for their work on the forces behind economic booms and busts have won this year&#39;s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said yesterday.
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Edward C. Prescott and Finn E. Kydland won this year&#39;s Nobel prize in economics for work that recognized the importance of productivity in business cycles and encouraged central banks to set long-term goals for fighting inflation.
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Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for revealing how forces in the atomic nucleus keep it from flying apart -- a discovery that has brought science one step closer to a &quot;grand unified theory&quot; of how the universe operates at the
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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 more  independent central banks and explained business cycles.
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Finn Kydland of Norway and Edward Prescott of the United States won the Nobel economics prize Monday for research that laid the groundwork for more
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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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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - An American and a Norwegian won the 2004 Nobel prize in economics Monday for their work in determining the driving force behind business cycles worldwide.
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Two Johns Hopkins University scientists have been selected to receive the nation's highest scientific honor.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- 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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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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Three American physicists shared the Â£760,000 Nobel prize for physics for calculating the bizarre properties of the ultimate fragments of matter.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for discovering a way to turn off the effect of specific genes.
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Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the 2006 Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of how to switch off genes, a potential road to new treatments for diseases from AIDS to blindness and cancer.