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Australia's first female Nobel winner ridiculed as a student
Sydney - The first Australian woman to win the Nobel Prize said Tuesday that she was asked as a young student what's a nice girl like you doing studying science. Professor Elizabeth Blackburn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for her work wit...

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President Obama wins surprise Nobel Peace Prize - Summary
Oslo - The announcement of US President Barack Obama as winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for extraordinary efforts to strengthe...

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Japan congratulates Obama on peace prize win
Tokyo - Japan welcomed the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama on FridayPrime Minister Yukio Hatoyama he was really pleased at Obama's win and wanted to congratulate him from the heart, the Kyodo news agency reported. ...

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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 : ] 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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Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai says Obama 'deserves' Nobel
Valladolid, Spain - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday congratulated US President Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he deserved it. Tsvangirai, who had himself been tipped for the Nobel, was speaking in the S...

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[Posted on : ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

German foreign minister praises Obama award
Berlin - Germany's outgoing foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, interpreted the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama on Friday as a way of urging the world to work step by step to peace and nuclear disarmament. In a writ...

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[Posted on : ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

Gorbachev and Walesa in row at German unification celebrations
Berlin - Nobel Peace Prize winners Mikhail Gorbachev and Lech Walesa engaged in a round of tit-for-tat rebukes Tuesday as the pair celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall in Berlin. After the Polish Solidarity union leader Walesa last...

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Hong Kong 'father of fibre optics' awarded Nobel Prize - Summary
Hong Kong - A Hong Kong professor hailed as the father of fibre optics was on Tuesday awarded the Nobel Prize for physics - and joked that it was his invention which had allowed news of the award to travel so fast. Professor Charles Kuen Kao, 75, a...

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[Posted on : ] Category : [ 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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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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Kao, Willard and Boyle win Nobel Prize in Physics - 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 communications and the digital camera. ...

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Hong Kong 'father of fibre optics' awarded Nobel Prize for physics
Hong Kong - A Hong Kong professor hailed as the father of fibre optics was on Tuesday awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. Professor Charles Kuen Kao, 75, a formed vice-chancellor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, received the honour for his ...

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Kao, Willard and Boyle win Nobel Physics Prize - 2nd Update
Stockholm - Charles K Kao, Willard S Boyle and George E Smith won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics for discoveries of importance for the internet and the digital camera, it was announced in Stockholm on Tuesday. Kao was cited for groundbreaking a...

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Kao, Boyle and Smith win joint Nobel for Physics - Update
Stockholm - Charles K Kao, Willard S Boyle and George E Smith have won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics, it was announced in Stockholm on Tuesday. Kao was cited for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for op...

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Report: Obama 'humbled' by peace prize
Washington - US President Barack Obama was humbled by receiving the Nobel peace prize on Friday, broadcast reports said. Obama was awakened with the news after the 5 am announcement, White House sources told NBC and CNN. ...

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[Posted on : ] Category : [ US (World) ]

REFILE: PROFILE: Barack Obama: US President, Nobel Laureate
Washington - US President Barack Obama has been in the White House less than nine months - but can now add a Nobel Peace Prize to his achievement in becoming the first black leader of the world's only superpower...

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Obamas in Kenya express pride over Nobel for Barack Obama
Nairobi - US President Barack Obama's Kenyan family on Friday expressed their pride at his being a awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. We are very proud about the award for Barak. This is a great honour, Obama's uncle Said Obama, who lives in Kogel...

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[Posted on : ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Israel congratulates Obama, hopes prize will boost Mideast peace
Tel Aviv - Israeli leaders congratulated US President Barack Obama Friday on winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, saying they hoped it would add force to his efforts to push for peace in the Middle East. President Shimon Peres sent a message to Obama,...

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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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Nuclear test ban chief: Prize strengthens Obama on disarmament
Vienna - The head of the international nuclear test ban organization, Tibor Toth, on Friday said the Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to Barack Obama would strengthen the US president on his arduous path towards nuclear disarmament. Toth, the Executiv...

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Philippine leader congratulates Obama for 'well-deserved' Nobel
Manila - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Friday congratulated US President Barack Obama for winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize, a spokesman said. Arroyo said the award, which came as a surprise, was well-deserved for the US presi...

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[Posted on : ] Category : [ Asia (World) ]

Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel prize for literature - 2nd Update
Stockholm - Romanian-born Herta Mueller of Germany has won this year's Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm on Thursday. The Academy's citation said that with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, ...

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[Posted on : ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Sarkozy expresses 'great joy' at Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy wrote a letter Wednesday to US President Barack Obama in which he expressed his very great joy at learning of Obama's receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. In awarding Obama what he called its most prestigious p...

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Kenya's Wangari Muthai: Obama prize is great inspiration
Washington - Kenya's environmental activist Wangari Maathai, who won the Nobel peace award in 2004, Friday called US President Barack Obama'sreceipt of the prize an extraordinary inspiration. Obama, whose father was Kenyan, was pointing the way to...

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[Posted on : ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]