
5 brilliant mathematicians and their impact on the modern world
Mother Nature Network (blog)
The Turing Award is to computer science what the Nobel Prize is to chemistry or the Fields Medal is to mathematics. In 2009, then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized for how his government treated Turing, but stopped short of issuing an ...

Depth of Field: UCSF Students Drawn to San Francisco's Legacy of Social Justice
UCSF News Services
The Spring 2013 issue of UCSF Magazine includes stories about UCSF's pioneering stem cell program and latest Nobel Prize winner, the emerging field of precision medicine, how our students serve the community, research that suggests healthy living may ...

Bar-Ilan honors Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Jerusalem Post
Shechtman, the 2011 Nobel laureate in chemistry, was born in Tel Aviv in 1941 and now lives in Haifa. He received an honorary doctorate “for his groundbreaking discovery which has changed the conception of solid matter,” the university said. “His ...

Nobel Prize-winning physicists dies at 79
ETH Life
... electronics, chemistry, biology and medicine. Rohrer and Binnig subsequently received numerous high honours and accolades, including the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986, which they shared with Ernst Ruska. Rohrer obtained various other awards for ...