Scientists &#39;smell&#39; a Nobel
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Two US scientists yesterday won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for genetic studies explaining how the sense of smell works.
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The guessing game over who will take home the world's most coveted awards ends this week with the announcement of the 2004 Nobel Prize winners.
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Of the three Nobel Prizes announced this week, the five different researchers share one decidedly common trait: They're all American.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - American researchers Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their work on the sense of smell - showing how, for example, a person can smell a lilac in the spring and recall it in the winter...
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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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Two American scientists who solved the enigma of how people can smell 10,000 different odors and recall them later were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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The Nobel Foundation said Wednesday it will begin announcing the 2004 Nobel Prize winners on Oct.
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Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering how people can recognize an estimated 10,000 odors, from spoiled meat to a lover's perfume.
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Two economists known for their globally influential work on the forces behind economic booms and busts have won this year's Nobel Prize in economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced yesterday.
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The King of Sweden was not there and the circumstances were a bit short of pompous, but 15 intrepid scientists attained a modicum of fame last week as this year&#39;s winners of coveted Ig Nobel Prizes.
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Their discoveries may be hard for many to comprehend, but this year's Nobel Prize winners Wednesday did their best to explain what they did and how they did it.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for discovering a key way cells destroy unwanted proteins - starting with a chemical "kiss of death."   When the process goes wrong, several hundred diseases can result, including cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis. So the work provides the basis for developing new therapies...
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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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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 2004 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for helping to understand how the human body gives the "kiss of death" to rogue proteins to defend itself from diseases like cancer.
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Two U.S. scientists won the 2004  Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for showing how sense of  smell enables people to recall, for instance, the scent of  spring lilac in winter or the stench of rotten food eaten long  ago.
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A Columbia University professor on Monday was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Richard Axel, 58, and fellow researcher Linda Buck received the award for their studies on the sense of smell.