All posts tagged "Nobel prize"

  • FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2005, file photo, Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel answers a journalist's questions at the Spanish National Court in Madrid, Spain, where he testified in a trial against an ex-Argentine navy officer Alfredo Scillingo accused of genocide committed in his country's dirty war more than two decades ago. Perez Esquivel said on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, that President Barack Obama should skip his planned March 24 visit to the country because it's the 40th anniversary of a coup that installed a military government that had U.S. backing. (AP/Mariana Eliano, File)
    Argentine Nobel Prize winner to Obama: Don’t visit March 24

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In a sign of growing discontent over a visit by President Barack Obama, a former Argentine Nobel Prize winner says the U.S. leader should skip his planned March 24 visit to the...

    • Posted March 3, 2016
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  • Five Nobel laureates plan North Korea visit

    Five Nobel laureates will visit North Korea in April next year as a part of a program involving visits to Asian universities, according to Johns Hopkins University Professor Peter Agre Thursday. Agre, who received a Nobel Prize...

    • Posted November 5, 2015
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  • E-Land Chairman Park Sung-su
    E-Land chief pays 400K for Nobel Prize medal

    By Lee Hyo-sik E-Land Chairman Park Sung-su has been making headlines for his hobby of collecting rare, expensive items from around the world. Park recently added a 1971 Nobel Prize medal to his list of items, at...

    • Posted March 2, 2015
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