Tagged: Nobel Prize

Aumann on Shapley and Roth - The Dismal Science

Paul Walker • Jan 08, 2013 •

• Nobel Prize

In the February 2013 Notices of the American Mathematical Society Robert Aumann writes on Shapley and Roth Awarded Nobel Prize in Economics (pdf). (HT: Market Design) … Read More

Note to self – eat more chocolate - Kidney Punch

John Pickering • Oct 17, 2012 •

• chocolate,
• chocolate consumption,
• cognition,
• correlation,
• Fun,
• new england journal,
• nobel laureates,
• Nobel Prize,
• p value,
• statistics

Apparently the pinnacle of one’s scientific career is to win a Nobel Prize.  Having not won a Nobel yet I will just need to accept by faith that it would indeed be the pinnacle of my career.  Thanks to a brilliant article in the New England Journal of Medicine this week I now have a … Continue reading » … Read More

Medicine or Physiology Nobel Prize to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for stem cell research - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Oct 08, 2012 •

• Gurdon,
• medicine,
• Nobel Prize,
• physiology,
• Yamanaka

This year's Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology has been awarded to John Gurdon (79) and Shinya  Yamanaka (50) for work that lead to the understanding that mature specialised cells could be ‘reprogrammed’ back towards a state that was not specialised to any one purpose, but open to become many kinds of cells. Formally … Read More

Creative science writing - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Nov 20, 2011 •

• book review,
• Chemical Free,
• creative writing,
• Fiction,
• Malaghan Institute of Medical Research,
• Marie Curie,
• New Zealand Listener,
• Nobel Prize,
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry,
• non-fiction,
• Royal Society,
• Royal Society of New Zealand,
• Sciblogs

This weekend the Royal Society announced the winners of the New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing. There are two categories, fiction and non-fiction, and this year entrants were asked to write about chemistry and our world. This is … Continue reading → … Read More

Future interactions, reinventing discovery, living homes and more - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Oct 28, 2011 •

• computing,
• fake science,
• michael nielsen,
• microsoft,
• Nobel Prize,
• reinventing discovery,
• the microbial home

I am profoudly fortunate.  Every day, tonnes and tonnes of brilliant bits of information come flying at me over the intertubes.  I try to send as many of them back out as I can, and so today, I thought I’d put a couple into a post. Enjoy! First up: ‘Ubiquitous Computing’ My … Read More

The Nobel Disease - The Atavism

David Winter • Oct 08, 2011 •

• Nobel Prize,
• sci-blogs,
• Skepticism

Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, Ralph M. Steinman and Dan Shechtman. Seven new Nobel Laureates and seven new names to include in the most exclusive club in science. The Nobel prize comes with a trip t... Read More

Marie Curie Lecture Series — 2011 - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Jan 27, 2011 •

• chemistry,
• International Year of Chemistry,
• IYC,
• Madame Curie,
• Marie Curie Lecture Series,
• New Zealand,
• Nobel Prize,
• Sciblogs

The Year of Chemistry 2011 site is providing information on local activities. The Marie Curie Lecture Series is worth looking forward to. These will run throughout 2011 and will be located around New Zealand. Female chemists will be reflecting on … Continue reading → … Read More

Move over — old fellow! - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Oct 05, 2010 •

• belief,
• Catholic Church,
• In vitro fertilisation,
• Nobel Prize,
• Pontifical Academy for Life,
• religion,
• Robert Edwards,
• Sciblogs

As a kid I used to enjoy running. Even competed a bit. But this morning I was reminded of an incident from one of my competitions where I was in a 1 mile race – and doing quite well. Suddenly, … Continue reading → … Read More

Medicine Nobel for IVF - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Oct 05, 2010 •

• medicine,
• Nobel Prize

This week sees the announcement of the Nobel prizes. Today it was announced that Prof. Robert Edwards is the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the development of in vitro fertilisation. Prof. Robert Edward (Source: nobelprize.org) There are over four million ‘IVF kids’, some who are now themselves parents. I imagine … Read More

Pick the Nobel winners and win - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Sep 28, 2010 •

• IPod,
• Nobel Prize,
• prize

Are you a hard-up Ph.D. student or post-doc looking for a chance to win a freebie? Or a staff member looking for a present for the kid on the cheap? MedGadget are running an on-line competition: enter in the comments your predictions of who will win the Nobel prizes, being announced from … Read More