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9 Oct 2019, 11:30 am
Stanley Whittingham upon his receiving the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Professor Whittingham won the prize for his work leading to the development of the lithium-ion battery together with John B. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 6:01 pm
American icon John Steinbeck, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize, having authored such classics as Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, died at age 66 in 1968. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 8:43 pm
FROM JOHN TIERNEY, an inconvenient question: I donâ € ™t want to dampen the celebration over Al Goreâ € ™s Nobel Peace Prize, but I wonder if this is, as they say, a â € œteachable moment. [read post]
18 Oct 2015, 8:46 am
.' She notes that 'all five of our twentieth-century literature Nobel laureates were alcoholic — Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O’Neill, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck.' (A proud tally.) [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 7:23 am
UPDATE 2: Here’s John Nye on the prize winners. [read post]
6 Oct 2008, 3:08 am
Alchian (edited by John R. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 8:29 am
John [official profile] met with officials from Myanmar [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 6:00 am
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from John Campbell, Professor of Economics at Harvard University. [read post]
1 Jan 2019, 3:49 am
We become prisoners of our own persona," said Nathaniel Comfort, a science historian at Johns Hopkins University, quoted in "James Watson Won’t Stop Talking About Race/The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements on genetics, race and intelligence. [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 8:37 am
Nobel-Prize-winning, Heisenberg's-and-Einstein's-elbows-rubbing, matrix-mechanics-developing physicist Max Born's granddaughter is Olivia Newton-John. [read post]
6 Sep 2006, 6:07 am
Studied law at New College, Oxford. 1960 Saint-John Perse. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 4:11 pm
Sounds like he's stretching it to me, since according to the Nobel website, Alfred Nobel left the money that established the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm that funds the prizes and he also left instructions on how they were to be awarded, including instructions that the Norwegian Parliament would elect a committee of five persons to name the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. [read post]
7 Sep 2013, 7:31 pm
"My wife once heard someone at a cocktail party describe me as someone to the right of the John Birch society. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 7:12 am
by Kevin Jon Heller At Foreign Policy, Bill Egginton, the chair of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins — and more importantly, my best friend — has a fascinating article on Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who just won the Nobel Prize for Literature. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 10:42 am
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner’s call to match any increase in the debt limit with spending cuts of equal size, according to a letter released by the Republican leader’s office Wednesday. . . . [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 5:46 am
[That’s not, mind you, why I picked the book up; a lot of second-rate and even third-rate authors have picked up the Nobel Prize (Sully Prudhomme, Pearl Buck, John Galsworthy, Dario Fo), and an equally astonishing number of the greatest writers of the 20th century somehow missed the prize (Vladimir Nabokov, Joyce, Kafka, Proust . . . ) that the designation doesn’t mean a great deal. [read post]
11 Jan 2010, 8:36 pm
John Cassidy's "Letter from Chicago" in the January 11 New Yorker makes a good case for the proposition that the harm done by the pseudo-Nobel for Economics has outweighed all the good done by the prizes actually established by Alfred Nobel's will. [read post]
3 Feb 2010, 6:10 pm
Now I know what you're thinking with this headline: "John Stossel? [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 5:41 am
Dr Michael Mann’s lawyer, John Williams, filed a fraudulent complaint falsely representing his client as a Nobel Laureate, and accusing us of the hitherto unknown crime of defaming a Nobel Laureate. 2. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 5:27 pm
How many Canadian law students could identify John Humphrey or explain his significance to the law? [read post]
