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Showing posts with label winner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winner. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- The Canadian team of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir put together a flawless program Monday that was rewarded with a gold medal in Olympic ice dancing.Russian and Soviet skaters had dominated this event since it became a part of the Olympics in 1976, but Virtue and Moir broke through after finishing second and third in the world championships the last two years.
That gave them a point total for the three nights' work of 221.57.The only other winners of this event from outside Russia or the Soviet Union have been Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in 1984 and France's Marina Arissina and Gwendal Peizerat eight years ago.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics since it was founded in 1968. She was born in 1933 in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in an era of economic depression preceding a world war.
Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics since it was founded in 1968. She was born in 1933 in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in an era of economic depression preceding a world war.She gained her PhD in Political Science in 1965 from the University of California, Los Angeles.She is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, both at Indiana University, Bloomington.Ostrom has studied how self-organization and local-level management works to keep common resources, whether natural, for example forests or man-made, police forces, viable.Williamson was born in September 1932 in Superior, Wisconsin in the United States. He is a prominent author in the area of transaction cost economics and related disciplines. He was a student of Ronald Coase, Herbert Simon and Richard Cyert.He received his BSc in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1955 and gained a PhD in Economics in 1963 from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.Monday, October 5, 2009
Australian-American researcher Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider and Jack Szostak of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for identifying a key switch in cellular ageing.The trio were honoured for discovering how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the role of an enzyme called telomerase in maintaining or stripping away this vital shield.After Blackburn's studies in 1980 on a single-cell organism known as Tetrahymena, or pond scum, she and Szostak discovered in 1982 that a unique DNA sequence in the telomeres protects the chromosomes from damage when the cells divide. In 1984, Blackburn and her then grad student, Greider, also identified telomerase, the enzyme that makes the telomere DNA.
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