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They Cut Class, Got Expelled And Still Won The Nobel Prize
Some Nobel laureates were straight-A students from the get-go. But others AFP recounted how they cut class, got expelled, and had doubts about their future.
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"Only Possible If...": What Macron Said On Trump's Nobel Prize Ambitions
If U.S. President Donald Trump really wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize, he needs to stop the war in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday.
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Nobel Prize In Chemistry Awarded To Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna
Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the United States on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping "scissors".
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Trio Win Nobel Chemistry Prize For Evolution Research
American scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for harnessing the principles of evolution to develop proteins used to make everything from biofuels to pharmaceuticals, the jury said.
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After 75 Winners, Nobel Economics Prize Still Contentious
For economists, who often disagree with one another and get their forecasts wrong, the idea of a Nobel Prize for economics remains controversial after 75 years.
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Alfred Nobel's Will Goes on Display for First Time
Alfred Nobel's last will and testament, which played a pivotal role in Swedish history by creating the now-illustrious Nobel prizes, has gone on display for the first time in Stockholm.
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Nobel Win 'Thumbs Nose at French Bashing', Says France PM
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Monday hailed the country's second win of Nobel season as a slap in the face for those who take pleasure in criticising the embattled nation.
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France's Jean Tirole, A Leading Economist 'Of Our Time'
French economist Jean Tirole is a master of game theory and industrial organisation, who on Monday added a Nobel prize to a gleaming heap of honours for his work.
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France's Patrick Modiano Wins Literature Nobel
Patrick Modiano of France has won the Nobel Prize in literature.
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Iranian Stanford Professor Maryam Mirzakhani First Woman to Win Top Maths Prize
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani on Wednesday became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize.
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Poor, Restive French Town Once Housed Nobel Prize Creator
It's one of the poorest suburb towns in France, riddled with unemployment, drugs and violence. But more than a century ago, Sevran was a peaceful, leafy village where Alfred Nobel once tested explosives.
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Serge Haroche, David Wineland win 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics
Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US won the Nobel Prize on Tuesday for work in quantum physics that could one day open the way to revolutionary computers. The pair were honoured for pioneering optical experiments in "measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems," the Nobel Physics jury said in its citation.
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Amartya Sen's idea of growth for France
Nobel Prize wining economists Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz led a commission to identify limits of current ways of measuring growth.
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They Cut Class, Got Expelled And Still Won The Nobel Prize
Some Nobel laureates were straight-A students from the get-go. But others AFP recounted how they cut class, got expelled, and had doubts about their future.
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"Only Possible If...": What Macron Said On Trump's Nobel Prize Ambitions
If U.S. President Donald Trump really wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize, he needs to stop the war in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday.
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Nobel Prize In Chemistry Awarded To Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna
Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the United States on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping "scissors".
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Trio Win Nobel Chemistry Prize For Evolution Research
American scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for harnessing the principles of evolution to develop proteins used to make everything from biofuels to pharmaceuticals, the jury said.
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After 75 Winners, Nobel Economics Prize Still Contentious
For economists, who often disagree with one another and get their forecasts wrong, the idea of a Nobel Prize for economics remains controversial after 75 years.
-
Alfred Nobel's Will Goes on Display for First Time
Alfred Nobel's last will and testament, which played a pivotal role in Swedish history by creating the now-illustrious Nobel prizes, has gone on display for the first time in Stockholm.
-
Nobel Win 'Thumbs Nose at French Bashing', Says France PM
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Monday hailed the country's second win of Nobel season as a slap in the face for those who take pleasure in criticising the embattled nation.
-
France's Jean Tirole, A Leading Economist 'Of Our Time'
French economist Jean Tirole is a master of game theory and industrial organisation, who on Monday added a Nobel prize to a gleaming heap of honours for his work.
-
France's Patrick Modiano Wins Literature Nobel
Patrick Modiano of France has won the Nobel Prize in literature.
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Iranian Stanford Professor Maryam Mirzakhani First Woman to Win Top Maths Prize
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani on Wednesday became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize.
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Poor, Restive French Town Once Housed Nobel Prize Creator
It's one of the poorest suburb towns in France, riddled with unemployment, drugs and violence. But more than a century ago, Sevran was a peaceful, leafy village where Alfred Nobel once tested explosives.
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Serge Haroche, David Wineland win 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics
Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US won the Nobel Prize on Tuesday for work in quantum physics that could one day open the way to revolutionary computers. The pair were honoured for pioneering optical experiments in "measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems," the Nobel Physics jury said in its citation.
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Amartya Sen's idea of growth for France
Nobel Prize wining economists Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz led a commission to identify limits of current ways of measuring growth.
