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Textbooks Featuring Malala Yousafzai Are Removed From Bookstores in Pakistan

July 16, 2021July 17, 2021Zia ur-Rehman and Emily SchmallComments Off on Textbooks Featuring Malala Yousafzai Are Removed From Bookstores in Pakistan

Authorities began confiscating a social studies textbook featuring a photo of Ms. Yousafzai, the education activist, after she questioned marriage norms.

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Bernard Lown, Inventive Heart Doctor and Antiwar Activist, Dies at 99

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021ROBERT D. McFADDENComments Off on Bernard Lown, Inventive Heart Doctor and Antiwar Activist, Dies at 99

He created the first effective heart defibrillator and co-founded a physicians group that campaigned against nuclear war, earning a Nobel Peace Prize.

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How Do the Nobel Peace Prize Nominations Work?

February 6, 2021February 6, 2021DANIEL VICTORComments Off on How Do the Nobel Peace Prize Nominations Work?

Thousands of people, including university professors, can submit nominations. Hundreds are submitted per year.

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Nobel Peace Prize: A Growing List of Questionable Choices

November 12, 2020RICK GLADSTONEComments Off on Nobel Peace Prize: A Growing List of Questionable Choices

From Aung San Suu Kyi to Abiy Ahmed, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded at least six times in the past three decades to recipients whose recognition is being second-guessed.

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Mario Molina, 77, Dies; Sounded an Alarm on the Ozone Layer

October 13, 2020October 13, 2020JOHN SCHWARTZComments Off on Mario Molina, 77, Dies; Sounded an Alarm on the Ozone Layer

He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research that showed how chemicals in hair spray and other products could cause grave environmental damage.

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Nobel Peace Prize: U.N. World Food Program Wins 2020 Award

October 9, 2020October 9, 2020Megan Specia and Matina Stevis-GridneffComments Off on Nobel Peace Prize: U.N. World Food Program Wins 2020 Award

The Nobel committee said the U.N. agency’s work to address hunger had laid the foundations for peace in nations ravaged by war.

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Louise Glück Is Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

October 8, 2020October 9, 2020Alex Marshall and Alexandra AlterComments Off on Louise Glück Is Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

The American writer was lauded “for her unmistakable poetic voice.”

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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Black Holes

October 6, 2020October 7, 2020Dennis Overbye and Derrick Bryson TaylorComments Off on Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Black Holes

The prize was awarded half to Roger Penrose for showing how black holes could form and half to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering a supermassive object at the Milky Way’s center.

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2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to Scientists Who Discovered Hepatitis C

October 5, 2020October 5, 2020Katherine J. Wu and Daniel VictorComments Off on 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to Scientists Who Discovered Hepatitis C

Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice were jointly honored for their decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem.

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After Hiroshima’s Carnage, Setsuko Thurlow Devoted Her Life to Peace

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020MOTOKO RICHComments Off on After Hiroshima’s Carnage, Setsuko Thurlow Devoted Her Life to Peace

Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima 75 years ago, has used the power of her personal story to try to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

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