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Nobel Laureate William Lipscomb Dies at 91
By not in system - AOL NewsBOSTON -- William Nunn Lipscomb Jr., a Harvard University professor who won the Nobel chemistry prize in 1976 for his research on the structure of molecules and on chemical bonding and mentored several other future Nobel laureates, has died. He was 91. Lipscomb, himself a protégé of two-time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, died Thursday night at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., of pneumonia and complications from a fall, said his son, James Lipscomb. Charles Krupa, AP William Lipscomb, a Harvard professor who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1976, died Thursday at a ...
POLL: Should WikiLeaks Get the Nobel Peace Prize?
By David Knowles - AOL NewsHeroes or villains? The whistle-blower group WikiLeaks has been officially nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. A 26-year-old Norwegian lawmaker says that Julian Assange's outfit has provided an invaluable service to the world for exposing "corruption, war crimes and torture," The Washington Post reported. Given that much of the anti-government domino effect occurring in the Middle East and Africa can be traced to WikiLeaks' release of U.S. State Department cables, there's no denying that the group has made an impact. While WikiLeaks is viewed in somewhat favorable terms by many Europeans, ...
China Awards Own Peace Prize Before Nobel Boycott
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Dec. 9) -- China awarded its own peace prize today to a Taiwanese politician who couldn't attend the event, just a day before it boycotts the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo where winner Liu Xiaobo will be absent because he's stuck behind bars in China. The first-ever Confucius Peace Prize was bestowed on Lien Chan, Taiwan's former vice president, whom organizers said could not attend the awards event in Beijing for "reasons known to everyone." They did not elaborate. A 6-year-old local girl accepted the award on his behalf. Liu Jin, AFP / Getty Images Six-year-old Zeng Yuhan holds the ...
Liu Xiaobo Isn't the First Nobel Laureate Barred From Accepting His Prize
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- The Nobel Peace Prize committee announced today that it would likely not be able to present its award to Liu Xiaobo at next month's ceremony, because neither the Chinese dissident nor any of his family members will likely be able to attend. Liu, a dissident writer and activist, is in jail in China and his wife, Liu Xia, is under house arrest. Liu "is one of three people to have received the prize while incarcerated by their own governments. The others are the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991, and the German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky in 1935," The New York ...
Nobel Winner Blocked From Federal Reserve Post by Republican 'Hold'
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyOne Republican senator is blocking a Nobel Prize winner from MIT from an appointment to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Sen. Richard Shelby says Peter Diamond, who won the economics prize with two other academics for pioneering research on the causes of joblessness, is not qualified to deal with monetary policy at the Fed level, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Diamond was nominated by President Obama earlier this year to serve as one of the central bank's top officers, but the Senate must yet confirm the appointment and Shelby, for one, is standing in the way. "While the Nobel ...
Dissident Dedicates Nobel Prize to Tiananmen Victims
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(Oct. 11) -- The imprisoned Chinese dissident who won the Nobel Peace Prize has dedicated the award to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, and China today canceled a meeting with a Norwegian official after warning that the prize would harm relations between the two countries. Liu Xia, the wife of prize winner Liu Xiaobo, was allowed an hour-long visit with him on Sunday in the prison in northeast China. He told her, "This is for the lost souls of June 4," and began crying, The New York Times reported, citing a statement from the group Human Rights in China. EFE / ...
Two Americans, British Citizen Win Nobel in Economics
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STOCKHOLM (Oct. 11) -- Two Americans and a British-Cypriot economist won the 2010 Nobel economics prize today for developing a theory that helps explain why many people can remain unemployed despite a large number of job vacancies. Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides were honored with the 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.5 million) prize for their analysis of the the obstacles that prevent buyers and sellers from efficiently pairing up in markets. AP U.S. citizens Peter Diamond, left, and Dale Mortensen, center, and British-Cypriot citizen Christopher Pissarides won the ...
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Who Gets Nobel Prize Money When Winner Is Jailed?
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Oct. 8) -- Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize to be honored while behind bars. So how does an imprisoned recipient collect the $1.5 million award? The money will be held in trust for him until he or his wife can collect it, Professor Geir Lundestad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, told AOL News. Given the furious reaction of the Chinese government, it appears doubtful that Liu will be released to attend the black-tie Oslo awards banquet in December. Today, Liu's wife said plainclothes police escorted her from her Beijing apartment to keep ...
Left and Right Celebrate This Year's Nobel Peace Prize Winner
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 8) -- Today, it was announced that Liu Xiaobo, one of China's most famous political prisoners, had won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Liu, an academic who has been active in the Chinese human rights movement for more than two decades, was arrested in 2008 for helping to author and circulate the Charter 08 petition, which called for political reform and greater freedom of expression in China. The news of his award has been greeted with hearty approval from onlookers on the left and right. Why He Was Nominated: Foreign Policy reprints a letter from Kwame Anthony Appiah, the author and ...
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