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Kao,Boyle and Smith jointly awarded Nobel for Physics

 

        

  Charles K. Kao                        Willard S. Boyle                   George E. Smith

STOCKHOLM - Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith have won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics, it was announced in Stockholm Tuesday.

Kao was cited “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication” while Boyle and Smith were cited for inventing the CCD sensor, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
The physics prize was the second of this year’s Nobel Prizes to be announced following the medicine prize announced Monday.

Chemistry Nobel Prize Winners 2009 – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz & Ada Yonath

                         

  Venkatraman                          

  Ramakrishnan                               Thomas A. Steitz                         Ada E. Yonath

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

    

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1.Elizabeth H. Blackburn

2.Carol W. Greider

3. Jack W. Szostak

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