“An Irish scientist has been jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. William C Campbell, who was born in Ramelton, Co Donegal, and colleague Satoshi Omura were jointly awarded half the prize for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 5 October]
“Without doubt, the pinnacle of scientific achievement is a Nobel Prize. Alfred Nobel’s will stipulated that the prizes should be awarded for the most important discoveries ‘during the preceding year’, but the complicated nature of validating results means that the Nobel committee don’t rush …” (more)
[Eoin Ó Colgáin, Science Calling!, 12 June]
“Ireland is to be represented for the first time ever at a highly prestigious meeting of Nobel Prize winners in the field of chemistry, after four Ireland-based researchers were selected to attend …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 28 May]
“Winning a Nobel Prize really is the ultimate demonstration of academic impact, but why would the public seem more interested in one of two joint winners? Rebecca Mann traces the public’s desire for information on Roth and Shapley, this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics …” (more)
[Impact of Social Sciences, 18 October]
“The long-term effects of the EU’s student exchange programme are still to be felt – Erasmus has bonded the continent’s youth …” (more)
[Philip Oltermann, Guardian, 13 October]
“When the biologist Carol W. Greider received a call from Stockholm last fall telling her she had won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, she wasn’t working in her lab at the Johns Hopkins University. The professor of molecular biology and genetics was at home, folding laundry …” (more)
[Jill Laster, Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 January]
