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Recent Events and News
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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.
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The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Dan Shechtman
"for the discovery of quasicrystals".
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The 2011 Nobel 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".
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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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The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded jointly to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,
Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman "for their non‑violent struggle for
the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in
peace‑building work".
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