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Why Marie Curie’s coffin lined with lead and still remains radioactive even after 100 years

The Times of India 21 Mar 2025
Marie Curie is renowned for her revolutionary research in radioactivity, for which she was awarded the title 'Mother of Modern Physics' and two Nobel Prizes ... two Nobel Prizes in two different fields.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak named 2025 Holberg Prize Laureate

News India Times 21 Mar 2025
The prize is ... Indian students win top prizes at 2017 NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest American Louise Gluck wins Nobel Prize for Literature Several Indian-Americans among 2022 Guggenheim Fellows.
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On Joan Baez, the woman who made a legend and a muse of Bob Dylan

The Hindu 21 Mar 2025
A look at the woman who propelled the Nobel Prize laureate to stardom, her place in Western songwriting history, and her mingling of storytelling and emotion that cemented her status regardless of Dylan’s legacy or approval ....
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Chemistry wordoku #086

Chemistry World 21 Mar 2025
A double honour for this chemist – first a Nobel prize, now a puzzle solution! ....
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Neural net behind Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel Prize to be preserved by Computer History Museum (University of Toronto)

Public Technologies 21 Mar 2025
The source code for AlexNet - the neural network developed at the University of Toronto that kickstarted today's artificial intelligence boom and led to a Nobel Prize - will be preserved by the Computer History Museum in partnership with Google.
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In the Trump era, Europe should shift its gaze towards China – Joseph Stiglitz

The Irish Times 21 Mar 2025
China is now a better partner for the European Union in facing global challenges than the United States with Donald Trump in power, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has said ... READ MORE ... .
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Thousands of academics sign petition backing Serbian students

The Peninsula 21 Mar 2025
Belgrade. Nearly 3,000 intellectuals, including Nobel prize-winning author Annie Ernaux, had by Friday signed an international petition in support of Serbian students who have been protesting nationwide for months against corruption ... .
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Why can’t US build a homegrown tech workforce?

Asiatimes 21 Mar 2025
Among Americans who have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, medicine or physics since 2000, 40% have been immigrants. Latest stories ... In 2023, U.S.-born Louis Brus, left, shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with U.S ... AP Photo ... are in high demand ... But why?.
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Women presidents in Africa

Urdu Point 21 Mar 2025
Pioneer Sirleaf -</p><p> Dubbed "Africa's Iron Lady", Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made history when she became the continent's first elected woman president in ...
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What do bookstores do when authors break bad?

Lima Ohio 21 Mar 2025
Last year, Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro’s daughter Andrea Skinner wrote a newspaper story that said she had been sexually assaulted by Munro’s second husband and that her late mother did nothing to stop it. And J.K ... In her “Monsters.
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Poll of the week: Do you trust Trump to successfully deliver a peace agreement?

AOL 21 Mar 2025
Schedule for 7am tomorrow ... Here is what you had to say.‘He’s in Putin’s pocket’ ... “Trump has no leverage over Putin ... “Unfortunately for Ukraine, Trump is only really interested in winning a Nobel Peace Prize so he can feel equal to Obama ... Credit ... While R ... .
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US-funded international media is worth the tiny cost — we can’t surrender to America’s enemies ...

New York Post 21 Mar 2025
Today, my stomach is turning ... It’s bewildering ... 6 ... 6 ... 6 ... When Nobel Prize-winning novelist Herta Müller was asked whether she had listened to US broadcasts behind the Iron Curtain, she said, “But of course — only those who were idiots did not.” 6 ... RFE ... 6 ... 6.
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L.A.’s own Willy Wonka? The ‘father’ of the Xbox is now perfecting lab-grown chocolate

The Los Angeles Times 21 Mar 2025
But he can chat about the 1970s Dodge camper one sees when entering the building. Complete with chalkboard-like scientific diagrams, the vehicle once belonged to Richard Feynman, the late Nobel Prize-winning Caltech physicist ... Expect a sense of humor ... .
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Trump doesn't deserve Nobel Peace Prize | ELAINE HARRIS SPEARMAN

Montgomery Advertiser 20 Mar 2025
Then, there is the Nobel Prize ... The Nobel Prizes consist of six annual prizes that are awarded to people for important work in the fields of literature, physics, chemistry, medicine and economics, and for helping to bring about peace in the world.
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Spivak support for Mamata’s secularism ‘in current context’

The Times of India 20 Mar 2025
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, winner of the 2025 Holberg Prize — the closest equivalent to a ‘humanities Nobel' — wrote to Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday, expressing support for ...
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