We have a President who believes in science, a Nobel Laureate for a Secretary of Energy and many talented people newly on the job.
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Presented with a ridiculous dessert in a restaurant one night shortly before his last child was born, the 84-year-old Nobel laureate contemplated a circle of perfectly measured blobs of fruit coulis.
The Nobel economics laureate was a staunch advocate of many ideas held sacred by conservative believers in individual rights.
Finally, we honor the quiet kid from Jersey -- (laughter) -- who grew up to become the rock 'n' roll laureate of a generation.
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On September 28th it formally proposed a financial-transactions tax (FTT), otherwise known as a Tobin tax after James Tobin, a Nobel economics laureate who put forward a similar scheme for currency markets in 1972 or a Robin Hood tax by those who want to use the proceeds for aid purposes.
One is from an ancient philosopher, one from a 20th century Nobel Laureate, and one from a 21st century ethics thought leader.
The AMS project began in 1994, when Professor Samuel Ting, a Nobel laureate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was considering a new high-energy physics experiment.
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Many Western diplomats think the government has taken to using the courts to pursue rivals and enemies as many say it did when it insisted recently that Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate, should retire as head of Grameen Bank, a microcredit institution.
Many Cornishmen wanted him for their official Poet Laureate, cocking a deliberate snub at their long-felt colonisation by Anglo-Saxons.
The Nobel laureate last made a public appearance on a major stage when South Africa hosted the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament.
Third: The media is tarring and feathering Rick Perry, we now see, for agreeing with Nobel laureate Giaever and a host of other prominent scientists.
But if the sycophants on TV talk shows who fawn over him as though he was a Noble Laureate continue to stroke his ego, the kid on Two and a Half Men will have gray hair before Sheen calms down.
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Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian activist and Nobel Peace Laureate, however, has a different and decidedly more precarious act to balance.
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It was co-founded by Patri Friedman, a grandson of Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate in economics, and until recently executive director of the Seasteading Institute, a group producing research on how to build ocean-based communes.
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Chu is a Nobel laureate in physics and wants to return to research and teaching in California.
Mr. Diamond is professor emeritus at MIT and a Nobel laureate in economics.
Some telling articles from the New York Times (including one from Paul Krugman, a Nobel laureate in economics) analyse the madness.
The daughter of a hero of Burmese independence and a Nobel laureate herself, Suu Kyi is the political conscience of her country.
Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive.
Donnall Thomas, a Nobel Laureate and former director of clinical research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute, praises the paper in the release.
Its major international ally, a Nobel Laureate in literature, and Atlas Templeton Fellow, Mario Vargas Llosa, has championed this organization across the Americas.
As Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate and Columbia professor, puts it, being too big to fail doesn't mean being too big to be reorganised.
The report is presented by Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate who wants the Commonwealth to stand for something subtler than ballots and voting booths.
"It's a numbers game, " says David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate and codiscoverer of an enzyme that helps HIV replicate, who heads the California Institute of Technology.
The fact that a Nobel Laureate in economics would propose this without making clear this fact raises the question of whether his prize should be revoked.
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Suppose you were a Nobel Laureate with numerous highly advanced technology patents to your credit and wished to come to the United States to live and work.
"This place is like a giant collective intellect, " he boasts, noting that Sydney Brenner, a Nobel laureate on the Salk faculty, sits on his scientific advisory board.
He came to Boston University to study with Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel for a doctorate (so far uncompleted) in Holocaust studies and helped Wiesel plan his own institute.
Obama is "going to be extremely constrained by an economy that's not growing, " says Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith, a professor of economics and law at George Mason University.
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