The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize was presented to Denis Mukwege and Nadia MuradAccordingly, the Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economic Sciences are awarded in Stockholm (Sweden) while the Nobel Peace Prize is given in Oslo (Norway). In 2018, American scientists have again ruled the Nobel Prizes. James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo, two immunologists, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for a pioneering approach to cancer treatment. Allison and Honjo showed how different strategies for inhibiting the brakes on the immune system can be used in the treatment of cancer. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was presented to physicists Gerard Mourou from France and Donna Strickland of Canada for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. Arthur Ashkin from Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, US, will also receive the other half of prize for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems. George P. Smith from … [Read more...] about 2018 Nobel Prizes awarded in Sweden and Norway
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2018 Nobel Prizes winners
James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo, the two immunologists, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for a pioneering approach to cancer treatment.Allison and Honjo showed how different strategies for inhibiting the brakes on the immune system can be used in the treatment of cancer.Physicist Gerard Mourou from France and...... Donna Strickland of Canada shared half of the prize for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.Arthur Ashkin from Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, US, will receive the other half of prize for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems.George P. Smith from University of Missouri, Columbia, US and......Sir Gregory P. Winter from MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK, were presented the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They were awarded a half of the prize for the phage display of peptides and antibodies.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has also decided to award the … [Read more...] about 2018 Nobel Prizes winners
Nobel Prize in Medicine for Cancer Therapy: US, Japanese duo win it
Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research into how the body's natural defences can fight cancer, the jury said yesterday. Unlike more traditional forms of cancer treatment that directly target cancer cells, Allison and Honjo figured out how to help the patient's own immune system tackle the cancer more quickly. The award-winning discovery led to treatments targeting proteins made by some immune system cells that act as a "brake" on the body's natural defences killing cancer cells. The Nobel Assembly said after announcing the prize in Stockholm that the therapy "has now revolutionised cancer treatment and has fundamentally changed the way we view how cancer can be managed". In 1995, Allison was one of two scientists to identify the CTLA-4 molecule as an inhibitory receptor on T-cells. T-cells are a type of white blood cell that play a central role in the body's natural immunity to disease. Allison, … [Read more...] about Nobel Prize in Medicine for Cancer Therapy: US, Japanese duo win it
1,001 ways to lose a Nobel Prize
It's easier to lose a Nobel Prize than to win one. A gold replica of the Nobel medal Smuggled out to impress girls in a bar, or dissolved to prevent the Nazis from getting their hands on one, the precious gold medals have gone missing in crazy, tragic or spectacular ways over the more than hundred-year history of the Nobel Prize. Here are some of them: - Dissolved in acid - When the Nazis invaded Denmark in April 1940, scientists at Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics began to worry about the 1914 and 1925 Nobel Physics Prize gold medals that two German laureates -- Max von Laue and James Frank -- had placed there for safekeeping. "In Hitler's empire it was almost a capital offence to send gold out of the country, and, Laue's name being engraved into the medal, the discovery of this by the invading forces would have had very serious consequences for him," Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy, who was working at the Institute, wrote in 1962. After being persuaded not … [Read more...] about 1,001 ways to lose a Nobel Prize
Japan’s Murakami snubs ‘alternative’ Nobel prize
Japan’s Haruki Murakami has withdrawn his nomination for the ’alternative’ Nobel literature prize saying he wants to focus on his writing and avoid the media spotlight. — AFP PhotoViet Nam News STOCKHOLM — Thanks, but no thanks: Japanese author Haruki Murakami, a finalist for the "alternative Nobel Literature Prize", has withdrawn his nomination, telling organisers he wants to focus on work and avoid the spotlight. The New Academy Prize in Literature was founded by more than 100 Swedish intellectuals in protest after the Swedish Academy, which selects Nobel laureates, postponed this year’s award over longstanding ties to a man accused of assaulting several women during the peak of last year’s #MeToo wave. The New Academy said in a Facebook post on Saturday that Murakami, the author of Norwegian Wood and who’s often tipped for the Nobel Literature Prize, "expressed his gratitude at being nominated, writing ‘It... is a great honour … [Read more...] about Japan’s Murakami snubs ‘alternative’ Nobel prize