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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.

Canada-born Ralph M. Steinman, of New York's Rockefeller University, who was honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his groundbreaking work on the immune system, died of cancer just days before he could be told of the award.

The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, was awarded on Monday to Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann jointly for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.

Predicting who will receive the Nobel Prize is an annual guessing game for some, for others, such as Thomson Reuters, it involves statistics.

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.

The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, was awarded on Monday to Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann jointly for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.

One of the three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday used his insights into the immune system in treatments against the pancreatic cancer he suffered for four years.

This year's Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced on Thursday, the Swedish Academy, which hands out the 10 million Swedish crown ($1.46 million) award, said on Monday.

Three scientists shared the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday for their discoveries about the human immune system that forged the development of new treatments against infectious diseases and cancer.

On Monday, the Nobel Prize awards committee, in an official Press Release, announced the winners for the prize in Physiology or Medicine. American scientist Bruce A. Beutler, has been declared the winner of the 2011 Prize, along with Frenchman Jules A. Hoffmann, for their discoveries of receptor proteins that can activate innate immunity. In addition to Beutler and Hoffman, the committee also recognized Ralph M. Steinman, for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunit...

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded jointly to three researchers for their work related to the immune system.

The Nobel Prizes for 2011 will open on Monday with the announcement in Stockholm of the Medicine Prize, to be followed over the course of a week by the awards for Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economics and Peace.

Around the world scientists, writers and negotiators of peace are hoping they will receive a $1.5 million phone call from Scandinavia next week saying they are Nobel Prize Winners.

The 2011 Ig Nobel prize for Biology has gone to Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle. Research was titled Beetles on the Bottle: Male Buprestids Mistake Stubbies for Females (Coleoptera).