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Using a tiny worm as his guide, H. Robert Horvitz, who got his masters and doctorate at Harvard University in 1974, found his way to the Nobel Prize in medicine this Monday...
Though the Nobel managed to surprise Horvitz while he was vacationing in the French Alps, his friends at Harvard said they were far from shocked...
HMS’ Higginson Professor of Cell Biology Howard Green, who knew Horvitz since he began his current career as a professor at MIT over 20 years ago, described the Nobel laureate as “quiet, very diligent, very active, hardworking and serious...
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...Thanks to this year's chemistry Nobel laureates, that's a lot easier than it used to be. In the late 1980s, John Fenn, 85, of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Koichi Tanaka, 43, of Shimadzu Corp. in Kyoto, Japan, independently invented techniques that extended a common analytical tool called mass spectrometry - that is, sorting by mass - to much bigger and more complex molecules than had ever been possible. Among many other things, their work has led to new diagnostic tests for ovarian, breast and prostate cancers and for malaria, and earned the pair half of the approximately $1million prize...