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10.08.07

It's Nobel Week!

by Clifford Johnson Department: Culture

It's that time of year everyone! Every year there's a period of about a week during which all the Nobel prizes in the various categories are announced. This is the week. Rather than wait for the press to announce, you can keep an eye on the Nobel site here, and find out who won, what for, and get as much detail as you like about the significance of the contribution the prize is for, and details about the people who won it. Physiology and Medicine has already been announced today (to Capecchi, Evans and Smithies, for a crucial research technique called gene targeting - more here, and read an NPR report by Richard Knox about it here (and you can listen to an interview with him too)). It's Physics tomorrow, Chemistry on Wednesday, Literature on Thursday, Peace on Friday, and Economics next Monday.

Sometimes people in the respective fields start little bets about who's going to get the prize. Do you have any guesses for the upcoming prizes? Do tell!

-cvj

Tags: nobel prize