Tag: NOBEL PRIZE

The world was abuzz today with news that jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Except in China, that is, where the country's censors were working overtime to expunge his name from all media. It's not enough that state owned news station and papers won't report on Xiaobo's win, the country is also blacking out commercial stations like CNN during segments in which they ...

Word on the street is that soon-to-be-president Barack Obama has chosen another smart guy to surround himself with. Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who runs Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been named Energy Secretary. Chu is an experimental physicist, known for his research in laser cooling and trapping of atoms. Here's a quote the New York Times dug up, which Chu ...