All posts tagged "Prize"

Researchers Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the United States and US-Australian Brian Schmidt won the 2011 Nobel Physics PrizeTuesday for their research on supernovae, the Nobel jury said.

China's jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo was briefly allowed out of prison last month after his father died, his brother told AFP, in an unusual break in the dissident's 11-year term.

Arab bloggers in Tunis on Monday discussed the role they played in the "Arab Spring," just days before the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize for which some among them are seen as frontrunners.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond said on Sunday he planned to withdraw as a nominee for Federal Reserve governor, after his nomination was repeatedly opposed by Republicans.

In an interview with Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh warned that the United States' "aggressive" sanction policy against Iran was aimed at halting a nuclear weapons program that does not exist.