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Video: Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013
2013-10-10 17:34:00| Chemical Processing
The award was presented "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems."
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Higgs boson scientists win the Nobel Prize for Physics
2013-10-08 16:30:12| Extremetech
Peter Higgs, the theoretical physicist after which the Higgs boson is named, has been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics. Higgs shares the prize with Francois Englert, another theoretical physicist who reached similar conclusions about the Higgs boson around the same time, in the mid-'60s. Higgs and Englert will share a prize fund of around $1 million, while CERN -- which discovered the Higgs boson last year -- will receive nothing.
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Should the Nobel prize for food go to a Monsanto exec?
2013-06-30 14:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In a move that has disturbed many anti-hunger advocates, including the 81 global leaders of the World Future Council and laureates of the Right Livelihood Award, the World Food Prize - often known as the Nobel prize for food and agriculture - has given this years award to three chemical company executives, including Monsanto executive vice president and chief technology officer, Robert Fraley. Fraley shares the prize with two other scientists responsible for launching the technology behind...
'Nobel Prize' of Agriculture Winner a Career Monsanto Man
2013-06-22 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Two of the three scientists sharing this year's World Food Prize have ties to prominent biotech companies, including Monsanto. While not nearly as high-profile, the World Food Prize is referred to as the "Nobel Prize for food agriculture." The award, announced Wednesday at the U.S. State Department (with Secretary of State John Kerry contributing his own remarks) will be shared this year by scientists who each play a role in the advancement of genetically engineered crops: Marc Van Montagu, Mary-Dell...
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