Chinese Author Mo Yan Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
Mo Yan, a Chinese author known for "hallucinatory realism" has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to Americans Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley for work that has helped to craft more efficient and stable markets.
Mo Yan, a Chinese author known for "hallucinatory realism" has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the United States, who both made unique advances in quantum optics, allowing scientists the first chance observe quantum particles in the physical world.
A sexy little rumor (for physicists) has popped up on the internet just days ahead of when the committee is expected to announce the Nobel Prize on October 9: the Higgs boson team might not be a shoe-in for the win, as a theory on "quantum teleportation" emerges as a contender.
Let's face it, the biggest and most important physics discovery in the past 30 years is old news. So let's move on to the next sexiest physics mystery, who exactly is going get science's biggest prize for the Higgs boson discovery?
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The Nobel Committee's award goes to the president of Liberia, an Arab Spring journalist and a peace activist
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The poet beat out Bob Dylan, and was praised by the committee for giving a "fresh access to reality."
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The chemistry prize goes to Israeli scientist Daniel Schectman for discovering quasichrystals
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He's the latest high-profile dissident freed in advance of Wen Jiabo's visit to Europe
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