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• No Nobel for You: Top 10 Nobel Snubs
  As the 2008 laureates are announced, SciAm looks back at some of Nobel history's also-rans

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• The Physical Science behind Climate Change
  Members of the IPCC, the 2007 peace winner, write on climate change.

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• Of Survival and Science
  A profile of 2007 physiology or medicine winner Mario Capecchi

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• Ranking Candidates Is More Accurate than Voting
  2007 economics winner Eric Maskin writes on how to make voting fairer

 

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Paul Krugman takes Nobel economics prize

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No peace for science: International mediator takes Nobel Peace Prize

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Chemistry Nobel Glows Fluorescent Green
Laureates Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien used a colorful jellyfish protein to reveal the inner workings of cells

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Chalfie, Shimomura and Tsien win Chemistry Nobel for lighting up cells

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Nambu, Kobayashi and Maskawa Win Physics Nobel
Work on so-called symmetry breaking helped to shape the Standard Model and explain why matter won out over antimatter

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Nobel Prize in Physics
Japan's Makato Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa share the Nobel Prize with American Yoichiro Nambu for work related to a fundamental description of nature at the subatomic particle level through what is known as broken symmetries

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Profile: Yoichiro Nambu in 1995
Strings and Gluons--The Seer, This Year's Physics Nobel Laureate, Saw Them All

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A History of Nobel Physicists from Wartime Japan
Nobel Laureate Yoichiro Nambu coauthors this piece about the most trying years of Japan’s history, two brilliant schools of theoretical physics flourished

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Montagnier, Barre-Sinoussi and zur Hausen Share Nobel
Physiology or medicine prize recognizes work on HIV and human papillomavirus (HPV) linked to cervical cancer--but leaves out Robert Gallo

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Germany's Harald Zur Hausen and France's Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi share this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The two French scientists discovered HIV, which quickly led to blood screening and treatments. The German showed that cervical cancer was caused by the human papilloma virus, paving the way to a vaccine. Steve Mirsky reports

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AIDS In 1988
In their first collaborative article, 2008 Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo, the investigators who discovered HIV introduce a single-topic issue on AIDS. They recount the discovery and offer prospects for vaccine, for therapy and for the epidemic

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An interview with 2003 chemistry winner Roderick MacKinnon

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The Kindest Cut
1990 physiology or medicine winner Joseph Murray

Scientific American Magazine
The $13-Billion Man
Why the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute could be the most powerful individual in biomedicine. A profile of 1989 chemistry winner Thomas Cech

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Ask a Nobel Laureate
The Laureates provide answers to the best of your questions

Where Are They Now?
The Watcher: Roald Hoffmann
A 1955 Westinghouse finalist wins a Nobel Prize in chemistry 26 years later, then turns his attention to poetry

Scientific American Mind
Speaking of Memory: Q&A with Neuroscientist Eric Kandel
MIND interviews the Nobel laureate about Freud's legacy, memory's foibles and the potential of drugs that boost brainpower