Year: 2016

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos wins 2016 Nobel Peace Prize

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Columbian President Juan Manuel Santoswon the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a five-decades-long civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people in the South American country.The award came just days after Colombian voters narrowly rejected the peace deal that Santos helped bring about, and Nobel authorities conspicuously left out …

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2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

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Molecular machines roll in for the 2016 chemistry Nobel Ben Feringa, Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Fraser Stoddart take chemistry’s top gong for creating a series of nanoscale machines The 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Jean Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Ben Feringa for building a world of molecular machines. From wheels to motors and …

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2016 Nobel Prize for Physics

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David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz win  2016 Nobel Physics Prize STOCKHOLM: British-born scientists David Thouless,Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that “revealed the secrets of exotic matter,” the prize committee said. The three “opened the door” to an unknown world where matter takes unusual states or phases, …

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