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More than 130 Nobelists have written more than 200 articles for Scientific American. Here's a sampling, along with a look at the prizes themselves
October 6, 2008 |
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As the 2008 laureates are announced, SciAm looks back at some of Nobel history's also-rans
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Members of the IPCC, the 2007 peace winner, write on climate change.
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A profile of 2007 physiology or medicine winner Mario Capecchi
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2007 economics winner Eric Maskin writes on how to make voting fairer
Laureates Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien used a colorful jellyfish protein to reveal the inner workings of cells
Work on so-called symmetry breaking helped to shape the Standard Model and explain why matter won out over antimatter
Physiology or medicine prize recognizes work on HIV and human papillomavirus (HPV) linked to cervical cancer--but leaves out Robert Gallo
In their first collaborative article, 2008 Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo, the investigators who discovered HIV introduce a single-topic issue on AIDS. They recount the discovery and offer prospects for vaccine, for therapy and for the epidemic
1990 physiology or medicine winner Joseph Murray
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A 1955 Westinghouse finalist wins a Nobel Prize in chemistry 26 years later, then turns his attention to poetry
Japan's Makato Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa share the Nobel Prize with American Yoichiro Nambu for work related to a fundamental description of nature at the subatomic particle level through what is known as broken symmetries
Germany's Harald Zur Hausen and France's Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi share this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The two French scientists discovered HIV, which quickly led to blood screening and treatments. The German showed that cervical cancer was caused by the human papilloma virus, paving the way to a vaccine. Steve Mirsky reports
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