~ The Nobel Prize Winners-2009 ~

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The Nobel Foundation

The Nobel Foundation is a private institution established in 1900 based on the will of Alfred Nobel. The Foundation manages the assets made available through the will for the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace.

Alfred Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833-10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite.
In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes.




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[kalanaweerlk]

wow.. ko ape Obama aiya gana wistharayak neane meke. adath miniha cut eka damma, party eka illuwama nobel eke.

 

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The Nobel Prize in Physics-2009

Charles K. Kao
(1/2 of the prize)

"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"

Professor Charles Kuen Kao (born 4 November 1933) is a Chinese pioneer in the use of fiber optics in telecommunications. Kao is widely regarded as the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications"



Willard S. Boyle & George E. Smith
(1/4 of the prize each)

"for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor"

Willard Sterling Boyle(born August 19, 1924) is a Canadian born, American physicist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device.


George Elwood Smith (born May 10, 1930) is an American scientist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device.


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[charutha1]

hehee

 

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry-2009

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan,Thomas A. Steitz & Ada E. Yonath
(1/3 of the prize each)

"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan born 1952 in Chidambaram,Tamil Nadu,India.is a structural biologist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Medical Research Council located in Cambridge, England.

Thomas Arthur Steitz (born August 23, 1940) is a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Ada E. Yonath(born 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine-2009

Elizabeth H. Blackburn,Carol W. Greider & Jack W. Szostak
(1/3 of the prize each)

"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn,(born November 26, 1948) is an Australian born biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere.

Carol Greider (born April 15, 1961) is a molecular biologist at the Johns Hopkins University. She was a co-discoverer of the enzyme telomerase in 1984 while working under Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of California, Berkeley. Greider pioneered research on the structure of telomeres, the ends of the chromosomes.

Jack William Szostak (born November 9, 1952http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_W._Szostak#cite_note-0) is a biologist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

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The Nobel Prize in Literature-2009

Herta Müller

"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"

Herta Müller at the Gothenburg Book Fair in 2008.
Photo: Håkan Lindgren

Herta Müller was born on August 17, 1953 in the German-speaking town Nitzkydorf in Banat, Romania. Her parents were members of the German-speaking minority in Romania. Her father had served in the Waffen SS during World War II.

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[minudil2000]

valuable info... is there any sri lankan names in the list of even nominees..

 

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The Nobel Peace Prize-2009

Barack Obama

"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office, as well as the first born in Hawaii. Obama previously served as the junior United States senator from Illinois from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review.

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[sandun_kg]

"Barack Obama" doesnt deserve Nobel price...its too early and fast... wtf

 

[sanath ekanayake]

So George W. also was a big peace lover at start,why he didn't get one?
Obama yet to rule USA 3yrs and possibly another turm at office.
how Nobel organizers so sure that Obama will never go otherwise?

 

[Chrisanthie]

Barack Obama

"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office, as well as the first born in Hawaii. Obama previously served as the junior United States senator from Illinois from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review.

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Obama is yet to prove himself. We have lost faith in the Nobel prize.

 

[sanath ekanayake]

Obama is yet to prove himself. We have lost faith in the Nobel prize.

yah!
also they broke it to pieces.
1/3,1/2 and 2/3 huh.... from norway the piece brokers.no wonder.

 

[wisal]

gave us some valuable info thanks buddy!

 

[Renesas]

info walata thanks

 

[thilzz]

valuable info... is there any sri lankan names in the list of even nominees..

i'm not sure about any sri lankan nominees

 

[Shann..]

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[Kasmadumala]

thnx thill 4 u r valuable info,.....