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Nobels?

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mozzy
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Anybody follow this stuff- the medicine prize was awarded today.
Anybody met a laureate before?

Oct 5 2009 10:28AM
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user098123
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The professor I work for at MSU has been nominated every year for the last 4 years, hasn't one yet though.  Hard to say if he will but we do some pretty crazy Alkali metal research and he has done 1/4 of all the research on Alkali metals ever done..  He is pretty old, maybe it is the kind of thing he will get after he retires and passes on or something.

Didn't look at the medical one that came out, I will have to.
Oct 5 2009 10:38AM
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Tasche
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Physiology, they won for the study of telomeres which from my understanding is the cap on the end of DNA strands.

one ≠ won

Bonus Fact: Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.
Oct 5 2009 1:39PM
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user098123
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Haha did totally write one, not won.  Oops haha, but ya I knew the fact and I know what telomeres are.
Oct 5 2009 1:43PM
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mozzy
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So physics went to the invention of the CCD, good choice.
And chemistry went to the people behind the ribosome structure, good choice as well. And I have to CLAIM that I used to work for one of them, so I'm super stoked.

Oct 7 2009 7:22AM
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nickyp
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I've met several, my university churns them out.

Record for Most Nobel laureates from a single institution /claim
Oct 7 2009 9:43AM
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Tasche
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haha glad you approve.

And you ^ go to Harvard? Or the University of Chicago.
Oct 7 2009 10:06AM
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mozzy
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And Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize!

I'm not sure what to think of this, way too early. Troops in Iraq, problems in Afghanistan. The committee outdid itself this time, methinks. . .

Oct 9 2009 5:26AM
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Mr.Panda
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House: "I WILL NOT ACCEPT HIS BLOOD MONEY!!!!"
Oct 9 2009 5:41AM
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brickerenator
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I agree.
The submission deadline for nominations was Feb 1. Obama had only been in office for two weeks at the time......I thought it was for past work, not current endeavors......
Oct 9 2009 6:56AM
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