Word: nobel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78, and a host of Harvard luminaries are set to speak at Drew G. Faust’s inauguration ceremony next month, the event that will formally install Harvard’s 28th president...
What sounds like yet another version of the Atkins craze is actually based on scientific evidence that dates back more than 80 years. In 1924, the German Nobel laureate Otto Warburg first published his observations of a common feature he saw in fast-growing tumors: unlike healthy cells, which generate energy by metabolizing sugar in their mitochondria, cancer cells appeared to fuel themselves exclusively through glycolysis, a less-efficient means of creating energy through the fermentation of sugar in the cytoplasm. Warburg believed that this metabolic switch was the primary cause of cancer, a theory that he strove, unsuccessfully...
...surprisingly, Romero's group has endorsed Bill Richardson, the only candidate of Latino background, for the Democratic nomination. "We have in Bill Richardson an individual who has 15 years in Congress, served as an ambassador to the U.N., was nominated four times to the Nobel Peace Prize, governor of New Mexico. The fact that he's also Hispanic is just the cherry...
Dingman chose to talk about the diversity of students in the incoming class, reciting the poem “Psalm” by Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska...
...millions of people's savings worthless. Small groups began marching over a six-month period, a stop-start effort that culminated in August 1988 with tens of thousands of people thronging Rangoon's streets. But the military quickly sent bullets into the crowds. By 1990, elections won by future Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) had been ignored by the junta. Burma slunk back into isolation...