Nobel Prizes In 2011
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Man At The Centre Of Nobel Scandal Found Guilty Of Rape, Jailed
Once an influential figure in Stockholm's cultural scene, 72-year-old Jean-Claude Arnault was convicted by a Stockholm appeals court of raping a young woman in October 2011 and again in December the same year.
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Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 has been awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet "for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011," the Norwegian Nobel Committee declared today.
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How to Get Your Nobel Prize Medal Past Airport Security
Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2011, had a close encounter with the airport security in Fargo, Nebraska. The details were reported on Friday on the blog Scientific America.
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Complete list of Nobel Prizes given this year
The prestigious Nobel Prizes are awarded annually on December 10 in twin ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo. Here is a look at this year's winners and their work:
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The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize citation
The complete text of the citation awarding the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen "for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."
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Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer
The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded on Thursday to Tomas Transtromer of Sweden, whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him wide recognition as the most influential Scandinavian poet of recent decades.
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Daniel Shechtman wins Nobel chemistry prize
Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Shechtman's discovery in 1982 fundamentally changed the way chemists look at solid matter.
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Man At The Centre Of Nobel Scandal Found Guilty Of Rape, Jailed
Once an influential figure in Stockholm's cultural scene, 72-year-old Jean-Claude Arnault was convicted by a Stockholm appeals court of raping a young woman in October 2011 and again in December the same year.
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Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 has been awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet "for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011," the Norwegian Nobel Committee declared today.
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How to Get Your Nobel Prize Medal Past Airport Security
Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2011, had a close encounter with the airport security in Fargo, Nebraska. The details were reported on Friday on the blog Scientific America.
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Complete list of Nobel Prizes given this year
The prestigious Nobel Prizes are awarded annually on December 10 in twin ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo. Here is a look at this year's winners and their work:
-
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize citation
The complete text of the citation awarding the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen "for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."
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Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer
The 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded on Thursday to Tomas Transtromer of Sweden, whose surrealistic works about the mysteries of the human mind won him wide recognition as the most influential Scandinavian poet of recent decades.
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Daniel Shechtman wins Nobel chemistry prize
Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Shechtman's discovery in 1982 fundamentally changed the way chemists look at solid matter.
