This year's Nobel prizes (so far)

[Jane in NC]

High school students may want to read about this year's Nobel prize winners.

Chemistry (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8294421.stm)

Physics (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8292372.stm)

Medicine (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8290094.stm)

All links lead to the BBC. I'll update when the other three are announced.

[Corraleno]

Thanks for posting the links!
Jackie

[Karin]

Thanks for the link!:001_smile:

[swimmermom3]

Thanks, Jane! The links are definitely appreciated here.

[Colleen in NS]

Physics (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8292372.stm)



YES!!! A fellow homeschooler in my area sent me this link yesterday: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-physics-kao-boyle-smith281.html

This guy is from my area, and he was homeschooled many years ago!!!!

[Michelle in MO]

The link on medicine is especially interesting to me. Some years ago I read an article (the title of which is long-forgotten) about the telomere at the end of the chromosome being promising for cancer research. Sounds like these researchers are well on their way! I don't remember much of the scientific jargon of the article, but I do remember that it seemed to make complete sense---prevent the telomere from being able to live essentially forever, and we can potentially stop cancer cells. This is fascinating research---thanks for sharing the links. I'll be looking forward to the updates!

[Jane in NC]

Literature (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8296720.stm)

Must admit that I have never heard of Herta Mueller. Anyone familiar with her books?

[Michelle in MO]

Literature (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8296720.stm)

Must admit that I have never heard of Herta Mueller. Anyone familiar with her books?
No, I hadn't, but from this description (from the link you provided), she sounds excellent:

"A bit like Franz Kafka writing in German in Prague, Mueller saw in her mother tongue a direct and poignant expression of alienation."

Something about this book (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Appointment/Herta-Muller/e/9780805060126/?itm=7&USRI=Herta+Mueller) sounds very Kafka-esque (i.e., the alienation, the inability to escape an untenable situation). I would imagine that anyone who had survived Ceaucescu would have quite a story to tell.

From what I can see, B&N is out of all new copies at this time. I'll have to be checking their website for this author in the future.

[Catherine]

soccer with my youngest. Yay! She is well-known here. I am so thrilled that she won!

[Jane in NC]

Peace (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8298580.stm)

Economics (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8302662.stm)

Nobels come with their share of controversy which we tend to shy away from over here on the high school board. (Behave, y'all!)

[CleoQc]

YES!!! A fellow homeschooler in my area sent me this link yesterday: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/10/06/nobel-prize-physics-kao-boyle-smith281.html

This guy is from my area, and he was homeschooled many years ago!!!!

I was about to post this too! First he's homeschooled, second, he's from your area, and third he was homeschooled in my area! (well, still pretty far, but at least in the same province :) ) and fourth, I studied at the same place as he did. McGill physics yeah! (that department has many many Nobel prize winners, it's scary. Even in my first year of undergrad, one of my professors was a Nobel recipient.

[Colleen in NS]

I was about to post this too! First he's homeschooled, second, he's from your area, and third he was homeschooled in my area! (well, still pretty far, but at least in the same province :) ) and fourth, I studied at the same place as he did. McGill physics yeah! (that department has many many Nobel prize winners, it's scary. Even in my first year of undergrad, one of my professors was a Nobel recipient.

And he lives in Halifax now, which is closer to me than the area he was from! :D

Fun!

You went to McGill? My doctor's son is there now.

[Karin]

And he lives in Halifax now, which is closer to me than the area he was from! :D

Fun!

You went to McGill? My doctor's son is there now.


My cousin went there and ended up with her career there (not a prof, but has worked her way up there over the years.) It's a great school.

Anyway, I'm happy to hear about this award. It's nice to hear this because it's one less brilliant mind lost to brain drain.