Many a Nobel laureate built his reputation on one or two great papers, and then spent several decades producing nothing new.
(Agence France-Presse, Rio de Janeiro) - During an interview in Brazil, Nobel laureate U.S. economist Joseph Stiglitz said that U.S. President Bush poses a much greater threat to global economy than any presidential candidate in Brazil.
I think of my sister Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi every day.
Amid international calls for reconciliation, South African Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu flew to Nairobi and held talks with Raila Odinga.
Yet it was inescapable that he should be lauded as Palestine's poet laureate, and not merely because his words were made into popular songs and splashed as headlines to sell newspapers.
The United States, Britain, France and other countries have condemned the arrest of the 1991 Nobel peace laureate.
"I woke up the day he won and had two e-mails from my parents and friends saying, 'Your professor's a Nobel laureate,'" said Erick Walsh, 19, a sophomore from el Salvador.
The academy said they had "woken him at 3am to tell him the news, and he is a happy laureate".
He was awarded the poet laureate by the queen.
Richard Feynman, the late physicist and Nobel laureate, argued that this one-by-one bullet-point style helped lead NASA to make critical misjudgments that resulted in the Challenger disaster.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the former top nuclear inspector for the United Nations and a Nobel laureate, is eager to lead.
The Nalanda Mentor Group, led by Amartya Sen, an economics Nobel laureate, has overseen the project since it was first proposed in 2006.
The Nobel laureate said this next generation of young people should be handed over the process of the MDGs as soon as possible.
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