Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

"The 2011 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded jointly to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims 'for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.'"

"The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded jointly to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman 'for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.'"

Just call it The Nobel Prize for European Literature already.

"The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 is awarded to Tomas Tranströmer 'because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.'"

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Greg wrote:"The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Dan Shechtman 'for the discovery of quasicrystals.'"

This is a good human interest story, and it needs more than just a routine announcement to fully appreciate it. It's the equivalent of "No studio would distribute our Oscar winning film!".

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/ ... EP20111005

The last sentence in the article really brought a smile to my face.

Greg wrote:"The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Dan Shechtman 'for the discovery of quasicrystals.'"

This is a good human interest story, and it needs more than just a routine announcement to fully appreciate it. It's the equivalent of "No studio would distribute our Oscar winning film!".

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/ ... EP20111005

"The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Dan Shechtman 'for the discovery of quasicrystals.'"

"The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" with one half to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess."

The ages of the three winners range from 41 to 52, which is fairly young for science laureates.

The 2011 Nobel Prizes are being announced this week. Today, the prize in Physiology Or Medicine "was divided, one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann 'for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity' and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman 'for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity'." A tragic irony is that Ralph Steinman died a few days before the announcement. The committee only found out after it attempted to contact him. He died of pancreatic cancer and was using his research as treatment.

http://nobelprize.org