Mohammad Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Grameen Bank, for his efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below. Muhammad Yunus. Full name: Muhammad YunusBorn: 28 June 1940, Chittagong, British India (now Bangladesh)Date awarded: 13 October 2006 Banker to the poor Professor Muhammad Yunus is from Bangladesh. During a 1974…

Grameen Bank was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Mohammad Yunus, for their efforts to create economic and social development from below. Full name: Grameen BankNative name: Grameen BankFounded: 1976, Dhaka, BangladeshDate awarded: 13 October 2006 The bank of the poor Grameen Bank (village bank) has millions of members in Bangladesh. The bank provides loans…

Interview with the 2006 Nobel Prize laureates in physiology or medicine, Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello, 6 December 2006. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, welcome to Stockholm. When we spoke a couple of months ago, just after you’d heard the news that you’d been awarded…

Interview with the 2006 Laureate in Economics, Edmund S. Phelps, 6 December 2006.  Professor Edmund Phelps, who is the prize winner in economics this year, the Riksbank Prize in Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel. Welcome to Stockholm firstly. Edmund Phelps: Thank you. How long have you been spending in Stockholm so far? Edmund Phelps:…

Nobel Prize Conversations ”I don’t think it’s my job or anybody’s job to try to convince other people of the righteousness of my opinion. I think it’s each person’s job to figure out how they look at the world” Listen to a podcast with astrophysicist John Mather, where he speaks about space and if we will…

The 100th Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Mather and George Smoot for recording faint echoes of the birth of the universe. Their precise satellite measurements of the cosmic background radiation, remnants of the sea of light emitted by the new universe, have confirmed fundamental predictions arising from the Big Bang theory, leading…

In this age of mass media, mass movement, and globalization it is likely that we will confront different cultures and different races as we go about our daily business. But Turkey, which straddles the intersection of East and West, has always had to deal with the problems and pleasures of diversity. The best-selling Turkish novelist…

Lying between your genes and you are molecular machines that allow the otherwise silent information wrapped-up in your DNA to speak. Working in turn to select, transmit, read and decipher the DNA code, they drive the production of all the components needed for life. Roger Kornberg’s research focuses on the earliest phases of this process,…

The Nobel Laureate , Stanford University School of Medicine   Transcription Film of transcription, The Dolan DNA learning center – genes in education (Media showcase; Transcription: DNA codes for mRNA, 3D animation)   Original scientific articles Cramer, P., Bushnell, D.A. and Kornberg, R.D. (2001) Structural basis of transcription: RNA polymerase II at 2.8 ångstrom resolution.…

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