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PROFILE:Venkatraman Ramakrishan, 2009 Nobel Chemistry Laureate
London - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the Indian-born scientist and joint recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize for chemistry, responded with typical modesty to the award Wednesday. In a statement from Britain's Cambridge University, where he has been worki...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-07 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

PROFILE: Ada Yonath, 2009 Nobel Chemistry Laureate
Tel Aviv - Ada Yonath, joint recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize for chemistry, is an Israeli crystallographer known for her work on the structure of ribosome, a part of the cell that synthesizes protein and translates genetic code in the production of...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-07 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Nobel Chemistry Prize to Ramakrishnan, Steitz, Yonath - Summary
Stockholm -US duo Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A Steitz, and Israeli Ada E Yonath, were Wednesday named winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for fundamental discoveries about a key life process, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences sa...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-07 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Israeli Nobel chemistry winner 'pretty surprised' by award
Tel Aviv - The Israeli joint winner of this year's Nobel Prise for chemistry said Wednesday she was surprised to be among the winners. I was pretty surprised, because I wasn't expecting it, Professor Ada Yonath said. ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-07 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Nobel Chemistry Prize to Ramakrishnan, Steitz, Yonath - 2nd Update
Stockholm - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and Ada E Yonath have won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, it was announced in Stockholm on Wednesday. Ramakrishnan and Steitz are US citizens, Yonath is from Israel. ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-07 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

1stLEAD: Nobel Chemistry Prize to Ramakrishnan, Steitz, Yonath
Stockholm - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and Ada E Yonath have won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, it was announced in Stockholm on Wednesday. Ramakrishnan and Steitz are US citizens, Yonath is from Israel. ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-07 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

PROFILE: George Smith - Nobel winner and world sailor
New York - George Smith, 79, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his work with colleague Willard Boyle developing technology that is the basis of digital photography. He worked at Bell Laboratories until his retiremen...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-06 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Nobel awarded for work behind fibre optics, digital - Summary
Stockholm - Charles K Kao, Willard S Boyle and George E Smith - dubbed the masters of light - on Tuesday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries behind data and telephone transmissions and the digital camera...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-06 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

2ND REFILE: Kao, Willard and Boyle win Nobel Prize - Summary
Stockholm - Charles K Kao, Willard S Boyle and George E Smith - dubbed the masters of light on Tuesday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries of importance for the internet and data and telephone ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-06 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

PROFILE: Charles Kao: 'father of fibre optics,' Nobel winner
Hong Kong - Charles Kao, who was named one of the winners Tuesday of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is known as the father of fibre optic communications for his discovery in the 1960s of the properties of glass fibres, which laid the groundwork for da...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-06 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

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French delegation arrives in North Korea