NOBEL PRIZE

As some economists and critics debate the merits of the Herman Cain 9-9-9 tax plan, with some saying the solution is not as simple is scrapping the tax code in favor of such a straight-line formula, many Republican voters see it differently. It's a major reason why Cain, of Atlanta, has surged to the top of at least one recent poll besting former front-runners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.

Einstein fled Germany for the U.S. in 1933 when Adolph Hitler became the Chancellor.

Researchers deciphered the human genome, the book of life 10 years ago, a landmark that ushered in the era of personalized medicine, not yet a hoped-for wide-sweeping reality.

Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims shared the Nobel prize in economics on Monday for work that helps governments and central banks weigh up responses to crises -- though it offers no immediate answer to current global problems.

Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology received the Nobel Prize for discovering quasicrystals. He will be receiving 10 million-kronor, or $1.4 million, in monetary rewards. All of Israel celebrates in his accomplishments as this scientific breakthrough brings the small country great pride in their technological innovation.

Atomic structures of crystals were thought to not be able to create the patterns discovered by Shechtman.

Two weeks into the Occupy Wall Street protests, one of America’s most respected polling firms released an astonishing survey on economic divisions showing that a majority of Americans don’t think their society is divided between haves and have-nots.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was given to three women: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace advocate Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to three women. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen have won the Prize for their work on women's rights.

Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Daniel Shechtman, an Israeli scientist, won the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work in the discovery of quasicrystals.

Sweden's greatest living poet, Tomas Transtromer, won the Nobel prize for literature on Thursday, more than 20 years after a stroke severely limited his speech and movement, but not the power of his writing.

An Israeli scientist who suffered years of ridicule and even lost a research post for claiming to have found an entirely new class of solid material was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals.

An Israeli scientist won the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for his discovery of crystals that packed in a pattern that never was repeated, research that colleagues ridiculed for years.

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in the discovery of quasicrystals.

American astronomer Adam Riess initially thought his Nobel-prize winning discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up was a mistake.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae with one half to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly to Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess.

Three American physicists walked away with the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for discovering that our universe's expansion is accelerating.

The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics will be shared by three scientists, for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of exploding stars, according to the Nobel Prize Committee.

Canada-born Ralph M. Steinman, 68, who was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his groundbreaking work on the immune system, died of pancreatic cancer just days before he would have found out that he had been awarded the prize.

A scientist who won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday used his own discoveries to treat himself for cancer, but died of the disease just days before he could be told of the award.