2010 Nobel Prizes

[Greg]

The Nobel Prize In Economics goes to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides "for their analysis of markets with search frictions".

[Greg]

The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".

[Franz Ferdinand]

I know I say this every year, but......Haruki Murakami, please!

[Greg]

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis".

And about time too, dammit. :p

Actually, this pioneering work in the field of organometallic chemistry has been considered award worthy for quite some time. :p

[Sonic Youth]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's eye just started tingling again.

Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize
Oct 7, 7:15 AM (ET)

STOCKHOLM (AP) - Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.

The Swedish Academy said it honored the 74-year-old author "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat."

Vargas Llosa has written more than 30 novels, plays and essays, including "Conversation in the Cathedral" and "The Green House." In 1995, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor.

His international breakthrough came with the 1960s novel "The Time of The Hero."

Vargas Llosa is the first South American winner of the prestigious Nobel Prize in literature since it was awarded to Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1982.

[Sonic Youth]

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis".

And about time too, dammit. :p

[Greg]

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis".

[Greg]

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene."

[Greg]

This week the Nobel Prizes are being handed out. Today is Physiology Or Medicine and it is awarded to Robert G. Edwards "for the development of in vitro fertilization."

You can read more at:

http://www.nobelprize.org