Thursday, October 19, 2006

Nobel Prizes

Its nobel prize time. All nobels have been awarded. If you are a scientist then you want to have the coveted prize for sure. The prize winners in various categories are

Physics
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John C. Mather
George F. Smoot
for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation .
From what I understand their discovery has supported the big bang . Bozz why do only big bang supporters get Nobels .. There are other theories... Come on profs work on them and get the nobels .

Medicine
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Andrew Z. Fire
Craig C. Mello for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA

I need to read through their lecture to understand what exactly have they done . Onnum puriliya ..Didnt understand head or tail of the work . Only the key words could i understand .

Chemistry
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Roger D. Kornberg
for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription.
FYI , Eukaryotes are multicellular organisms like us and prokaryotes are single cellular organisms.
Chemistry and Eukaryotes ....mmhmm must be a biochemical discovery .

Economics
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Edmund S. Phelps for his work on macroeconomic policies . Seems his work is on tradeoffs between inflation and employment .
If only his work aids in reducing inflation and increasing emplyment it shd be great...God knows the other way arnd could happen too ..Coz I dont believe economists .

Literature
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Orhan Pamuk has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures ..
What ? discovered symbols and got the Nobel .. I too can do this right .

Peace prize
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Muhammad Yunus
Grameen bank ( Strated by Mohammed Yunus )
Mohammed Yunus started the Grameen bank which works on microcredit to female population of Bangladesh . We in India too should follow this to eradicate poverty . Not that bangladesh is a rich country, But seems this is a good process for the development of the economy .
Agreed but should he not be given a nobel for economics and not for peace .
The logic is Peace can be attained only if poverty is gone. and mr yunus has worked towards the social economic development of the poor .

Source

Last but not least , if at all therz a nobel for Bug fixing.. We SW developers should get it . Aint it ?

Madhu
Nobel prize winner in 2030 ( thinking which category would i get a nobel in ) ..Vote or it and let me know which i best suit for.

4 comments:

மு.கார்த்திகேயன் said...

//Madhu
Nobel prize winner in 2030 //

Madhu..un arivukku nichchayama nadakkum.. but ippadi koondukkulla iruntha eppadi da...


Happy Diwali da.. Ammavukkum convey pannidu da

ambi said...

thanx for the info.
but y U missed my name best blogger - 2006? he heee :)
(sari,sari, thakaali adikaatheenga)

Avial said...

@karthi,
uchi kulurndhu potchu da ..

@ambi ,
kuduthutta pogudhu kasa panama.vetchukonga

Sathya said...

unnaku enna category noble prize tharuvangantu sollatumaaa mamuuuu???

kalijayidumdaaaaa