Americans Win Nobel in Chemistry for Work on How Humans Sense the World

Two Americans shared this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for deciphering the communication system that the human body uses to sense the outside world and send messages to cells — for example, speeding the heart when danger approaches. The understanding is aiding the development of new drugs.

The winners, Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz, 69, a professor at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher, and Dr. Brian K. Kobilka, 57, a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, will split eight million Swedish kronor, or about $1.2 million

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Serge Haroche, David Wineland win Nobel in Physics

France's Serge Haroche and US researcher David J. Wineland shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, announced Staffan Normark, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm Tuesday. 

Haroche and Wineland got the awards "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems", Xinhua quoted Normark as saying. 

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Two scientists share 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine

The Nobel Committee at Swedish Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Monday named two scientists for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went jointly to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent", reported Xinhua citing an institute statement."Their findings have revolutionised our understanding of how cells and organisms develop," it added.

Shinya Yamanaka and John B. Gurdon

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